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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.
On April 30, Mike Pieciak, head of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR), announced he was stepping down from the post “to pursue other opportunities.” At the time, Pieciak, a 38-year-old Brattleboro native who now lives in Winooski, wasn't saying what those opportunities might be. All became clear on May 6, when he announced he was running for the Democratic Party nomination for state treasurer. With the departure of longtime state treasurer Beth Pearce, who announced two days earlier...
Courage, on and off the battlefield, was the theme of the annual Memorial Day service on the Common on May 30, presented by American Legion Post 5, VFW Post 1034, and Marine Corps League Detachment 798. With the sorrow over the loss of life from recent mass shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., and at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, still fresh in everyone's heart, master of ceremonies Tom Costello, past commander of Post 5, led a service...
Work has begun to pick up on the Hinsdale-Brattleboro bridge project, as the concrete replacement for the two century-old steel spans over the Connecticut River starts taking shape. The two current spans, the Charles Dana and Anna Hunt Marsh bridges that carry Route 119's traffic between Brattleboro and Hinsdale, N.H., remain open while the new bridge is under construction just downstream. The old bridges will ultimately be transformed to pedestrian/biking pathways. The project started last September. The anticipated completion date...
Shoppers at the local Hannaford supermarket stopped their carts last week upon seeing a blur flying about in a blue T-shirt with a single red “S.” No, it wasn't a bird or a plane, but instead a 5-year-old boy who, for his family, is a true Superman. Nolan Goodnow had seen his picture on the front page of a newspaper reporting how he woke his sleeping household last Christmastime during Brattleboro's largest fire of 2021, only to face homelessness this...
After a March 1 Annual Town Meeting vote approved a $1.2 million expansion plan for the Guilford Free Library by just 15 votes (348–333), a re-vote on May 24 has nixed the plan by 30 votes, 405–375. The revote came after 10 percent of the town's registered voters signed a petition requesting it. The article was exactly as first presented, asking for a $205,000 bond to help pay for the project and that the town reallocate $195,000 in money originally...
The May 26 filing deadline has passed and the field are now set for the Aug. 9 Democratic and Republican party primaries in Vermont. The most noticeable thing that voters are seeing is how many members of the Vermont Legislature are not seeking re-election in 2022. In all, 10 of Vermont's 30 senators and 41 of 150 members of the House taking a pass on seeking another term. Reps. John Gannon, D-Wilmington, Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, and Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham,
The Putney Public Library is offering teens a unique program through which they will not only be able to learn about their privacy rights, cite Supreme Court cases, and explore counter arguments, but also illustrate their basic Constitutional rights by drawing them in comic form. Constitution & Comics Camp, facilitated by Constitutional scholar Meg Mott and comic artist Marek Bennett, is the library's free program offered to teens ages 12 to 18 from Monday, June 27 to Friday, July 1,
At the age of 95, Janice Martin is spryer than many others half her years and has a memory like a steel trap. “In September 1932, at the age of 6, I started school in the one-room schoolhouse called the South School, located in Vernon, Vermont,” she says. “It's still there and is now the home of the Vernon Historical Society,” remembers Martin. “I had my picture taken by the old wood stove in 2015.” The former Janice Pratt was...
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...
