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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.
BRATTLEBORO-Voters on April 11 passed a $27 million budget, agreeing to pay for trash removal and fund human services after lengthy discussion, procedural clarification, and multiple amendments. For the first time since 1960, deliberations were not limited to 150 elected representatives. With all registered voters eligible to vote directly, nearly 300 — almost 4% of the town’s electorate — turned out to the meeting at Brattleboro Union High School at some point to do so. Voters had agreed in March...
BELLOWS FALLS-Brattleboro resident John Lowrey has been watching and photographing bald eagles in the area for the past three years. “There are 13 nests that I watch between Vernon and North Windsor,” Lowrey said. “All have nesting pairs of adults and, in 2025, eight of the nests that I monitor regularly all had two eaglets born and fledged successfully.” The year before, “they all had only one and they all fledged with success,” he said. The return of the bald...
BRATTLEBORO-When Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) social studies teacher Lindsay Levesque was about 12 or 13, she read The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It was her introduction to the Holocaust. “I remember talking to my dad about it,” she recalls. “My other Holocaust connection is that my mom’s best friend is an immigrant from Hungary whose mother was a Holocaust survivor.” Levesque jumped at the idea of bringing the exhibit “Anne Frank: A History for Today”
BRATTLEBORO-Voters will convene in the first open Town Meeting since 1960 on Saturday, April 11, starting at 8:30 a.m. in the gymnasium at Brattleboro Union High School, 131 Fairground Rd., to consider a $27 million FY27 budget. The open Town Meeting format means that every registered voter who attends has a vote. That’s different from Representative Town Meeting (RTM), where about 140 elected representatives voted on behalf of their district’s constituents. The change came after voters on March 3 discontinued...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and a union representing its nurses have reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike amid a projected $14.5 million annual budget shortfall. But southeastern Vermont’s main health care provider still faces threats of a walkout by support staffers unhappy with their own stalled contract talks. The 160-member Brattleboro Federation of Nurses (BFN) voted last month for a potential strike after objecting to proposed curbs on salaries and benefits. The union said it would give the hospital...
DUMMERSTON-For months, neighbors along Black Mountain Road have watched truck after truck haul logs from the hillside. What’s happening in our backyard is a carefully planned forestry project led by Steve Hardy — president and owner of Green Mountain Forestry — whose four decades in the woods inform every decision made on the mountain. Hardy has practiced forestry for close to 48 years and founded Green Mountain Forestry 35 years ago. He’s a licensed forester in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
BRATTLEBORO-As long as the United States Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) believes it has the freedom to kidnap, terrorize, and deport new Americans, attorneys will be necessary. Which is why, in 2025, State Treasurer Michael Pieciak — a Brattleboro native — found time away from his official state duties to help create the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund (VILDF). On April 2, Pieciak brought his traveling fundraising appeal to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, bringing with him such distinguished...
BRATTLEBORO-The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) and Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) will host a community forum about education restructuring per Act 73 on Saturday, April 25, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Brattleboro Union High School. The boards invite attendees to bring questions/concerns and meet with neighbors in Windham Southeast, Windham Central, and Windham Northeast, as well as with local legislators to learn about forthcoming developments concerning Act 73, which will impact the way school districts are organized, significantly...
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...
