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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 Selectboard won't adopt a local statement promoting abortion rights to avoid potentially complicating a statewide November vote on the issue. The five-member board has spent a month considering a “Resolution to Protect Pregnant People's Access to Abortion,” which has come with calls to financially assist supportive health care providers with up to $100,000 in tax money. “In the face of oppressive action, oppressive laws, laws that take us backwards, laws that infringe on people's liberties, it's important to say...
As elsewhere, the area has lost many loved ones to the coronavirus pandemic, with records showing that 40 people in Windham County have died from complications of COVID-19. Compassionate Brattleboro and Brattleboro Area Hospice will lead the community in honoring and remembering these loved ones in a brief ceremony at the beginning of Gallery Walk on Friday, Sept. 2 (rain date Saturday, Sept. 3), at 5 p.m., on the lawn between the Municipal Building and Brooks Memorial Library. “Our hope...
U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced on Aug. 1 that more than $254 million that they requested on behalf of 89 Vermont projects has been included in the annual Senate Appropriations bills released last week. These 12 bills will fund the federal government for fiscal year 2023 and will have to be negotiated before being passed by both the House and Senate and signed into law by the president. According to a news release, Sanders's and...
The 45th annual Rockingham Old Home Days celebration will take place on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5-6, at the Waypoint Center, 17 Depot St., in Bellows Falls, from 4 to 10 p.m. Rockingham Old Home Days celebrates a tradition that started in the early 1900s. All-day events include the Guinness Book of World Records barbecue, tiny homes on display, a flea market and a flea market flip contest, dunk tank, live entertainment, food booths, a climbing wall, live animals, craft...
Here is some information from Town Clerk Hilary Francis that might be helpful to know about voting in Brattleboro in the Aug. 9 State Primary elections. The polling place for all three districts in Brattleboro is the American Legion, 32 Linden St., from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Masks are no longer required to enter the American Legion for voting, but they are certainly welcome and will be provided, along with hand sanitizer. Parking is available at the American Legion...
By day she is a warehouse worker, but her true passion lies with the moving of tiles on the Scrabble board. Word lover and Brattleboro resident Sara Corbin has recently returned from the 2022 Scrabble Players Championship, held in late July in Baltimore, where her proudest moment was when she earned 212 points for the word “squatter.” She positioned the tiles for that word on the top right-hand edge of the board, placing two onto triple-word-score squares and another onto...
There are several contested races in the Aug. 9 Democratic Party primary, but the bulk of the attention has been focused on one race and two candidates. Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint and Lt. Gov. Molly Gray are the clear frontrunners in the contest to decide the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Peter Welch, who is running for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat of the soon-to-retire Patrick Leahy. Two progressive Democrats,
An assistant judge from Windham County who will appear on the Aug. 9 primary ballot said she has dropped out of the race following her resignation from the post earlier this month. Democrat Patricia Duff, who's held the role since 2006, said three bouts with COVID-19 and associated health issues prompted her to resign. Her health made coming to work difficult, she said. Duff's colleague, Assistant Judge Lamont Barnett, also a Democrat, is seeking reelection. According to the Vermont 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...
