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BRATTLEBORO-Sebastian Alvarez knows firsthand that not every student learns the same way.
Now the 16-year-old Brattleboro sophomore will get to make that case to the people who set education policy for the entire state.
The Vermont Attorney General's Office has ruled that a local police officer and two state troopers were justified when they shot and killed a man on July 19 after he was suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Brattleboro Officer Ryder Carbone and Vermont State Police detective sergeants Jesse Robson and Samuel Truex aimed their guns at Matthew Davis, 34, of Fitchburg, Mass., after he ran toward them with a knife, the Attorney General's Office said on Sept. 26. The sequence of...
Survivors who have alleged sexual abuse in the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) have named at least three adults, two of them teachers, saying the adults molested them at their schools and off-campus. Kim Dougherty, co-founder and partner of the civil litigation firm Justice Law Collaborative in North Easton, Massachusetts, has sent two letters to the WSESD on behalf of two former students, one who was in high school at the time of the alleged abuse and one who was...
Melany Kahn knows many people recognize her father, the late acclaimed artist Wolf Kahn, for his blurred, bucolic paintings. But she remembers his delight in searching for the details he left out of his landscapes. “My dad loved to forage for anything you could pluck off a tree or bush or pick off the ground,” Kahn recalled recently at the family's Vermont homestead. Her mother, fellow abstract expressionist Emily Mason, had a special affinity for mushrooms. “If you took a...
As the mercury starts dropping with the shift from summer to fall, the heating season is bringing stress to a number of people this year, including one single mother in Brattleboro. “It has been almost unbearable not to be able to heat my home. It's actually terrifying,” says Candy Anne, who requested that her last name be withheld because of the sensitivity of her situation. Candy Anne heats her home primarily with wood, though she does have an oil backup.
Twenty-nine months after an organization known as the Democracy Builders Fund purchased the campus of Marlboro College and commenced an ill-fated educational project known as Degrees of Freedom on the property, stability has returned to the scenic campus under the aegis of a newly formed nonprofit called Potash Hill, Inc. Potash Hill, which acquired the real estate in September 2021 and takes its name from the hill that dominates the campus, is an offspring of Marlboro Music, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit...
Michelle Luetjen-Green remains chair of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) School Board Chair - for now - but only after a chaotic meeting Sept. 14 where some board members looked to oust her from her role. The meeting erupted in shocked outcry from community members after Luetjen-Green, reading a statement, announced that she had been asked to relinquish her leadership. “Today, I received a phone call from [a supervisory union] board member asking me to step down as chair,”
CPR Therapeutics, Inc., a medical device startup company based here, has received a $1.6 million award of federal funding for a project to help save the lives of people who need cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. The funding is from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Direct-To-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Award. It will go toward community efforts to build “A Multimodal Integrated System for Improved Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.” “We are over the moon!” says Dr.
Utilities Division crews from the Department of Public Works will start spring flushing of the town water mains on Friday, Sept. 23, at 10 p.m., and continue work through Friday, Oct. 7. Some daytime flushing will continue throughout the week of Oct. 11 through Oct. 14. Customers are asked to check the flushing schedule closely, as flushing causes water discoloration, low water pressure, and, in some areas, periods of no water. Water-main flushing will occur during both night (10 p.m.
Emma Rose Sheldon is a licensed clinical mental health counselor. BRATTLEBORO-I feel compelled to speak...
KATE TRZASKOS is executive director of the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance. BRATTLEBORO- What does the future...
The writer represents Windham-1 (Guilford and Vernon) in the Vermont Legislature. GUILFORD-Thank you to the...
Chloe Learey is executive director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development.
BRATTLEBORO-For the first time since 2015, the Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) Annual Galbraith Lecture...
BRATTLEBORO-Sarasa Ensemble performs “Nordic Circle” at the Brattleboro Music Center on Friday, Nov. 13, at...
VERNON-Regional nonprofit Jazzhers will host a jazz clinic for female and nonbinary students in grades...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Gould’s new novel, Part for the Hole, is about a guy who decides to...
-The Bellows Falls Terriers are now one victory away from winning the Division III state...
-There will be more soccer at Hayford Field in Wilmington this week as both of...
-It has been a great autumn of soccer in the Deerfield Valley so far this...
-The Twin Valley-Leland & Gray soccer rivalry is one of the best in Vermont as...
