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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.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Brattleboro Union High School graduate Jody Williams, an international political activist most known for her work to ban and clear land mines, will speak to the school community on Tuesday, May 17. Williams helped launch the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1991. The ICBL had 1,000 international member organizations from 100 countries working on the issue. In 1997, the Ottawa Treaty, signed by 133 nations, banned land mines around the world. For that work,
There were few questions at a May 2 meeting of the Planning Commission, when the town's Planning Department staff members offered a presentation about cannabis establishments and zoning. About 20 people attended via Zoom, with a smattering of people attending in person. Planning Director Sue Fillion showed maps of districts in town reflecting where cannabis can and cannot be sold and/or cultivated. Overall, siting of a cannabis shop cannot be prohibited because, in 2021, voters opted in to retail sales...
In 1892, the Vermont Legislature, heeding a call from Dr. Henry Holton and other concerned residents in town, incorporated the pioneering Brattleboro Home for the Aged and Disabled. “Physical comfort and care are combined with a social freedom and variety that are unusual,” historian Mary Cabot went on to write in Annals of Brattleboro. “The number of elderly people who look forward to the age at which they can be eligible to this Home is a witness to its happy...
To the shock of many, all but the student representative to the New England Youth Theatre board of directors announced their en-masse resignation on May 2. Board members say the split is amicable and they decided individually to step out of the way and let founder Stephen Stearns work out a new model with staff who want more say in the way things work at the nonprofit. “As we begin our transition into full programming for the first time in...
Ten-term Windham County state Sen. Jeanette White is set to join regional colleague and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint in relinquishing her position, spurring a rising number of newcomers to seek the two southeastern Vermont seats. “I don't look forward to a primary and raising money. Campaigning is not my favorite thing to do,” White said this week of her decision not to run for reelection. “I like meeting people and selling them on ideas, but I don't like...
Deb Tillinghast, eldest child of Marcel Leclaire Sr., remembers a day in May of 1967 when she was 12 years old and her father came home from work wrapped up in a blanket. “He stunk,” she remembers of her father, who had served the Brattleboro Police Department for almost 25 years, including as chief of police from 1981 to 1984. He died April 25 at the age of 89. “And he was cold. We had no idea why.” The reason?
Charles Raubicheck and Peg Alden are the newest members of the Selectboard following the April 26 special election. The vote came after annual meeting voters agreed to add two members to the former three-member panel - a change put on the ballot by citizen petition. Alden, who won a one-year seat with 369 votes, ran against Laura Campbell (28 votes), Bryce Hodson (63 votes), and Parry Smith-Phillips (39 votes). Raubicheck vied with Elizabeth Warner for a two-year seat, wining 364-128.
When the Brattleboro Area Drop-In Center and Morningside Shelter merged in 2015 to become Groundworks Collaborative, the goal was to create an integrated network of services to provide food, shelter, medical care, and other assistance for those in need. Seven years later, the vision has become reality. The last piece of that effort is about to open on the site of the former Drop-In Center on 60 South Main St. A new building, still a couple of weeks away from...
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...
