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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.
Guilford Free Library trustees, meeting last month for their first meeting since a proposed library expansion plan was re-voted and defeated, hope to move forward with a new plan for renovation. According to minutes for the trustees' June 20 meeting, Town Administrator Peder Rude has said the trustees can move forward with an addition if a proposal to do so is approved by library trustees and the Selectboard and if it doesn't require town money. Librarian Cathi Wilken says that...
A person of interest who was being sought in connection with the suspicious death of a missing Massachusetts woman was shot dead Tuesday night while walking in West Brattleboro by members of the Vermont State Police and the Brattleboro Police Department. According to a press release from the VSP, during an attempt to speak with the man at about 7:45 p.m., “he was shot by police and has been pronounced deceased.” Police were investigating the disappearance and death of 23-year-old...
The first-ever Riverfest Weekend, hosted by the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC), will take place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6 and 7. “We're very excited to have this event in Brattleboro and with local partners, reinvigorating the Riff Raft race, working with the New England Canoe and Kayak Racing Association, and just having a great time on the river in Brattleboro,” says CRC Executive Director Andrew Fisk. CRC says Riverfest is intended to “showcase the area's rich array of outdoor recreational...
It may be mid-summer, but volunteers are already thinking about winter. Living Memorial Park Snow Sports, Inc., the nonprofit that operates the Brattleboro Ski Hill, has started raising money for snowmaking upgrades as well as some needed repairs to the hill's pump house to improve snowmaking capacity. To date, $850 has been raised on the group's GoFundMe page at bit.ly/673-ski-fundraiser, and an anonymous donor has pledged another $2,000 toward the $5,000 goal, but more is needed. “We're making progress,” says...
For many Vermonters, this summer has been a time of diminishing worries about COVID-19, but this status could change quickly as the new BA.5 Omicron subvariant is starting to drive an uptick in cases nationwide. Vermont is reporting an increased proportion of BA.5 cases, according to the July 13 Vermont Department of Health (VDH) surveillance report. However, it does not seem to have driven a spike in overall cases in the state thus far. In New England, BA.5 made up...
The late Robert Gannett was a rare breed - and not just because he was both a direct descendant of his hometown of Brattleboro's namesake, Revolutionary War figure William Brattle, as well as the husband of a granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. Gannett held one of his southeastern Vermont district's two Senate seats from 1973 to 1992 - the last Republican to do so. In the three decades since Gannett retired, only Democrats have represented Windham County in the state...
For almost as long as human beings have walked the Earth, they have been making baskets, as evidenced by some found in the pyramids of Egypt to artifacts dating back thousands of years old and preserved in the museums of China. Here in southern Vermont, baskets have been made of strips of oak and ash for centuries, first by Indigenous peoples and then brought by those who colonized the region in the 1700s. Greg Wilson is the seventh family member...
“Marlboro Music has been here in good times and in bad for 70 years,” says Marlboro Music Manager Philip Maneval. “And we'll be here for another 70 years and beyond.” Despite the shuffling of real estate deeds, Marlboro Music “is committed to protecting” the campus of the now-closed Marlboro College - the place that the festival has called home since 1951. “We know and love it; there are abundant and rich legacies here and we want to protect those,” Maneval...
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...
