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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 topic of about 70 minutes of public comment at a recent Windham Southeast School District school board meeting was the future career of Interim Superintendent Mark Speno, who attended the meeting but said nothing. On March 16 - the night after 300 people jammed Zoom for the WSESD school board public forum to discuss masking [story, A5] - 175 people were again on Zoom. Approximately 50 people - mostly students and school officials - attended in person. Public comment...
Elected Town Meeting representatives spurned a call to feed themselves a $2,500 tax-funded lunch. But that didn't stop them from spending 12 hours on March 19 chewing over $20 million in municipal matters. “Democracy is messy, and it can be frustrating,” Prudence MacKinney, vice chair of the Planning Commission, told a Zoom audience at the start of Vermont's only state-sanctioned virtual Town Meeting. “It takes time and effort to work well.” It also requires fuel, according to a Town Meeting...
While Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) has received a local zoning permit from the town to move forward and build a 25-unit affordable housing complex on Alice Holway Drive adjacent to the Putney Community Gardens, opponents are appealing the decision. The permit, issued by the Putney Development Review Board (DRB) on March 9, allows the land to be subdivided into two parcels. The southern parcel is dedicated to the new housing community with two energy-efficient, all-electric buildings with a...
It's Vermont's fifth season - mud season - and it's in full swing this year like none other. “The annual mud season in Marlboro is especially bad this year,” resident Adrian Segar wrote on a public Facebook post on Monday in one of innumerable dispatches from residents on the social media platform. “The town's 60 miles of dirt roads are essentially unpassable,” he continued. “School is canceled today because the school buses can't get through. We got a car out...
For the second straight year, the annual Representative Town Meeting will be a virtual affair. This year's meeting will be held Saturday, March 19, starting at 8:30 a.m., via Zoom. The proposed fiscal year 2023 General Fund budget includes total revenues and expenditures of $20,063,642, an increase of $379,651, or 1.9 percent, over the fiscal year 2022 budget. Notable cost decreases from FY22 to FY23 include a transfer to the Capital Fund (down $91,000), debt service payments (down $149,775), and...
Confusion and misinformation reign following a five-hour executive session of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) board on March 1 that ended with no final candidate named for superintendent. A movement is brewing among constituents who deeply admire the work of Interim Supt. Mark Speno and want the school board to give him the job. Alternatively, some supporters have wondered if Speno has had his hat in the ring as an applicant and have been upset that, as Chair Kerry...
The Brattleboro Retreat's chief executive is leaving for a job in the Boston area. Louis Josephson joined the Brattleboro Retreat in January 2016, according to the nonprofit's website. The Retreat's executive vice president, Linda Rossi, will replace him as interim CEO in early April, the chair of the Retreat's board said Tuesday. Josephson did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon, but board Chair Tom Huebner said the staff learned of the news Tuesday afternoon. Rossi has been...
Coming from a strong background of community growing and support, Wichie Artu sees his decision to seek one of the Democratic nominations for Windham County's two Senate seats as “another way I can see myself empowering folks on the ground.” He will be contending with Nader Hashim in the primary. Tim Wessel of Brattleboro is running as an independent. Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanette White of Putney has not yet announced her decision about seeking re-election. Artu, who has a bachelor's...
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...
