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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 Windham Southeast Supervisory Union and Windham Southeast School District have hired several administrators. Kate Margaitis will serve as principal of the Green Street School in Brattleboro after serving as an assistant principal at Brattleboro Union High School. Most recently she served as Green Street School's interim principal, replacing Mark Speno, who had been appointed as the interim superintendent of schools for the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union last summer and has been named to the permanent role. A resident of...
The municipal press release began with a bombshell: “Rescue Inc. informed the Selectboard and Town Manager that [it] would no longer be providing emergency medical services for the Town of Brattleboro as of July 1.” People who know Rescue as Windham County's largest and longest-serving EMS provider were shocked - none more so than officials at the private nonprofit who hadn't said that at all. Rescue had told municipal leaders the town's contract was set to expire this summer and...
The “By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth” citizens committee invites the public to the town's 49th annual Independence Day celebration, set for Monday, July 4, with a morning parade downtown and afternoon and evening program of family activities and fireworks at Living Memorial Park. Marching units - including the local American Legion and Brattleboro Union High School bands, veterans, and civic and youth groups - will kick off the festivities at 10 a.m. with a parade along a new route...
Protests and vigils are not an unusual sight here, but this one was different. Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court eliminating the federal right to abortion on June 24, more than 100 people gathered on a hot and sunny Friday afternoon in Plaza Park to denounce the decision as well as to support Vermont's efforts to protect abortion rights. The crowd, lining the sidewalk overlooking “Malfunction Junction” during the peak of the evening rush hour, featured the usual folks...
A retired teacher has turned his love of music into a new business in downtown Putney. Next Chapter Records, which offers new and used vinyl records, is now open at 120 Main St. in the former home of Antidote Books, which moved to Brattleboro earlier this year. The store is run by Mitch Harrison, a 56-year-old native of northern New Jersey. For the past 20 years, he's been teaching science to middle schoolers in Alstead, N.H. Now retired, Harrison said...
Richard (Dick) DeGray arrived here over 40 years ago as a contractor for the former Vermont Yankee Power Plant in Vernon. “I'm retired,” says DeGray with a laugh, “except I'm not retired at all.” There is good reason for his contradictory statement. DeGray volunteers his time, to the tune of 40 hours a week, as the person in charge of the flowers planted all over town in hanging baskets, boxes, hayracks, and the large planters he describes as “coffins.” DeGray...
As Vermont ambulance officials continue to voice questions, the town Selectboard voted Tuesday to amend its transition plan to take over local emergency medical services upon the July 1 end of its nearly 60-year contract with Windham County's largest EMS provider. The board decided this spring with little notice or public debate to drop its association with the private nonprofit Rescue Inc. for the lower-priced for-profit Golden Cross Ambulance of Claremont, N.H., which has agreed to help the local fire...
The West River Education District (WRED) School Board is looking for public input regarding task force reports that might include removing high school students from Leland & Gray, among other possibilities. “The West River board is engaging in some fruitful conversations about the future of the school district,” said Windham Central Supervisory Union (WCSU) Superintendent William Anton, of which the WRED is a part. “With declining enrollment and increasing upward pressure on a tax rate, the board understands that engaging...
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...
