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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.
It all started when retired forester Charles Richardson, 87, read an article in the newspaper about a “wood pantry” - stored, dried hardwood to be given away to people in need - that had emerged in New Hampshire. “I said to myself, 'We could do that,'” said Richardson. “Don Hazelton, Merrill Barton, and I got the ball rolling, and now we are a group of men, mostly retired, and we cut the logs, split [the wood] with a splitter, stack...
Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, made it official on Dec. 13: She will be running for Congress in 2022. At her campaign kickoff event at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier, Balint said that she is running for the Democratic nomination “because we're facing huge challenges. Working families are struggling, the pandemic is raging on, real climate action can't wait, and our democracy itself is at risk. The future feels perilous. We can't tackle these challenges if...
In “Community comes together to keep Rod's strong” [News, Nov. 24], The Commons mistakenly attributed to the wrong person one of the good wishes directed to Rod's Towing and Repairs and the Winchester family in the aftermath of a catastrophic fire. Elizabeth Lewis, quoted in the story, actually wrote, “You have a special place in my world. You will triumph!” The erroneous quote was removed in the online version of the story. Visit the Givebutter crowdfunding site for Rod's at...
It took a couple of amendments and a defeated paper ballot request, but 65 voters who turned out for Special Town Meeting Dec. 7 have agreed to buy about 21 acres of land for $450,000 to use as a town gravel pit. Voters also agreed to borrow up to $600,000 to cover the purchase price and attendant costs for the parcel, owned by Paul Belogour, at Radway Hill and River roads. Selectboard member Ann Golob explained that the option to...
Do voters here want a larger Selectboard? To find out, a petition to include an article on the March 1 Annual Town Meeting warrant to increase the Selectboard from three to five members is being circulated and signed. Vermont statute states a town may vote at an annual or special Town Meeting to elect two additional Selectboard members for terms of either one or two years each. It goes on to say that if two additional Selectboard member positions are...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) board has collectively spoken for the first time at any length publicly since learning of allegations of repeated sexual abuse and grooming by former Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. The statement integrates a number of ideas that have emerged, including issues of process, procedure, the board's responsiveness, the independence of an investigation, sensitivity to and confidentiality of survivors in the process, and examination of the current school climate. However, nowhere...
Drew Hazelton has devoted his life to emergency medical services and has seen a lot at Rescue Inc., “but emergency services are different in the middle of a pandemic from the way things used to be.” Rescue Inc. was asked by the Vermont Department of Health to bring vaccines to the elderly and those who have difficulties getting out of their homes when they first became available in January this year. The nonprofit was happy to help, and what started...
Loic Danjou is the picture of Christmas, sporting forest green wool pants, a red-and-black-checkered insulated shirt, and a red woolen cap topping his grey hair. He chats at his Christmas tree stand in the parking lot of the Black Mountain Inn where, at the edge of Putney Road, a spray-painted sign declares trees available for $29.95. Danjou, whose tree farm is in Canaan, in the Northeast Kingdom on the Quebec border, has been coming off the mountain down to Brattleboro...
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...
