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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.
When local leaders first decided to rent portable restrooms in 2019 for a downtown with few public options, it seemed like a good idea. Until, they discovered, it wasn't. “These locations quickly became attractive nuisances where criminal and drug activity was undertaken,” interim Town Manager Patrick Moreland said of a plan that cost $1,000 a month in tax money. Local leaders, discontinuing the portable restrooms this year, now are seeking a less problematic and more permanent solution - one that...
Authorities appear to be investigating whether a recent fatal shooting at Great River Terrace was made in self-defense, according to a complaint federal prosecutors filed in court late in the afternoon of Aug. 23. Nicolas Baker, 34, told police on Aug. 19 that he had just shot an attacker in his apartment with a pistol that had fallen out of the other man's pants pocket, according to the filing. During a subsequent search of Baker's apartment, though, police found a...
A Landmark College professor - and longtime contributor to The Commons - pleaded not guilty on Aug. 23 to a charge of first degree aggravated domestic assault with a weapon. MacLean Gander, 65, of Jelly Mill Road in Guilford, was arrested by Vermont State Police on Aug. 22 after authorities received a complaint about him threatening a person known to him with a knife following “escalating abusive behaviors” involving alcohol and drugs, according to a police affidavit. As a general...
While the national teacher shortage continues, and has affected - notably - rural Vermont, it's been a mixed bag in Windham County school districts as administrators prepare for the first day of school. For Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) Superintendent Mark Speno, the past year has been the most difficult in memory when it comes to hiring, yet Windham Central Supervisory Union (WCSU) Superintendent William Anton says it hasn't been out of the ordinary there. “We're doing a lot better...
More than 300 people began streaming onto the Retreat Farm and into a big white tent on Aug. 13 as Sam Waymon - brother to the late musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone - and two backup vocalists set the upbeat rhythms for the third annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner, with guests joining in to sing together. Cliff Wood, a retired college president and a member of the Windham County Vermont NAACP leadership team, had organized the organization's members...
Vermont State Police have confirmed they are investigating Patricia Duff, a former Windham County assistant judge who resigned earlier this summer. State police spokesperson Adam Silverman declined to address the reason for the probe. News of the investigation was first reported by the Brattleboro Reformer. Joyce McKeeman, an assistant judge in Orange County and the president of the Vermont Association of County Judges, told VTDigger in an Aug. 18 email that “the underlying allegations against [Duff] were related to financial...
It may seem like the stuff of fiction, but 50 years ago, before the interstate and internet brought Ben & Jerry and Burlington's Dealer.com, Vermont was such a Republican stronghold, it supported then-President Richard Nixon's reelection by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. “State residents voted true to tradition to give President Nixon an overwhelming victory against Democratic challenger George McGovern,” The Burlington Free Press, then the state's largest print news outlet, reported on its front page of Nov. 8, 1972. Vermonters...
The top vote-getter for Windham County Senate in the Aug. 9 Republican primary, disavowed by Vermont GOP leaders for displaying fascist and alt-right symbols, is relinquishing his party affiliation and running as an independent for one of two open seats in the November general election. Westminster logger Mark Coester received 542 votes, followed by Brattleboro tax preparer Richard Kenyon with 539 votes and retired Brattleboro bank employee Richard Morton with 528 votes, according to unofficial results posted on the secretary...
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...
