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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 print version of the story “Brattleboro, Rescue Inc. on course to part ways due to contract dispute,” [News, April 13] incorrectly asserted a financial relationship between the town and the EMS nonprofit for dispatch services. The story has been corrected online at commonsnews.org.
Brattleboro's municipal government and the town's nearly 60-year nonprofit emergency medical service provider are on course to part ways because of an escalating contract dispute. Newly hired Town Manager Yoshi Manale announced on April 11 that Rescue Inc. would stop responding to Brattleboro calls as of July 1, leading his office to draft a transition plan to hire a private ambulance company until the local fire department can secure enough employees and equipment to take over. “After a careful internal...
With 100 people attending via Zoom and more wanting to get into the meeting, the Putney Huddle hosted a forum on April 10 to hear from the four people running for a one-year seat and the two vying for the two-year seat on the Selectboard. Voters at this year's Annual Town Meeting agreed to add two new members to make a five-member board, thus the need for a special election. Organizer Laura Chapman apologized that more people could not be...
Seven months after 27 farmers in Vermont - among the 89 across the Northeast - were shocked by a letter from Horizon Organics saying the company would stop buying milk from them in August, a few bright spots are shining through. Stimulated by Horizon's announcement, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets and several Northeast partners led a farmer-focused Northeast Dairy Task Force to identify key issues facing the region's dairy industry. The task force's comprehensive report released in...
Lithuania and Vermont have enjoyed close ties for years, so that when a crisis affect one, the other will feel it also. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is one of those crises, raising worries from those in Lithuania and the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia bordering the war zone that their region might be next. However, Lithuania's deputy ambassador to the United States, Dovydas Špokauskas, told the Windham World Affairs Council on April 5 that his country is...
Gov. Phil Scott's veto of Brattleboro's proposed charter change has prevailed, snuffing the town's hopes of allowing teens to vote and run in municipal elections. On March 31, the Senate failed to override Scott's veto of H.361. Fifteen senators voted in favor of overriding the governor and 12 voted against doing so. A two-thirds majority was required. In 2019, more than two-thirds of Brattleboro voters approved a charter amendment that would have allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to vote and run...
At her second meeting since formation of a new Windham Southeast Supervisory Union school board, Chair Michelle Luetjen Green admitted that the hiring process to select a new superintendent raised “concerns that we did not secure a fair process for all applicants to be reviewed, assessed, and deliberated on.” She told The Commons that her words are a “personal statement that I felt should be acknowledged sooner than later.” Her comment came at the same March 30 meeting where parent...
Voters at Putney's Annual Town Meeting agreed to change the composition of the Selectboard from three members to five. With a special election is scheduled with in-person voting on Tuesday, April 26, the Putney Huddle is hosting an online candidates' forum on Sunday, April 10, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held via Zoom at bit.ly/selectboardforum or dial in 301-715-8592. The meeting ID is 838 3198 093. The forum will be recorded, and Town Moderator Meg Mott...
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...
