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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 annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner is back at the Brattleboro Union High School and with some new faces behind the scenes in the kitchen on Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 11:30 a.m. [Editor's note: An editing error introduced the wrong day of the week in the print version of the newspaper this week. This date and day of the week is correct.] Jaci Reynolds and a new group of community members have come together to make the annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner...
Ian Graham is the new director of the Rockingham Free Public Library. Graham comes to the RFPL from Rhode Island where, for the past five years, he was associate librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in Providence. He was previously director of library collections for a decade at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where he still has a home. He started at the RFPL on Nov. 1. How's it going? “I think it's going great. You might...
Nine members of the Planning Commission have been removed in one fell swoop by the Selectboard, causing a tsunami of questions that many are looking to be answered when the board next meets. “I've lived in town for 52 years, and it was a very hard decision for me and the Selectboard,” Selectboard Chair Richard Wizansky told The Commons this week. “But we believe it is the best action we could have taken for our town.” It started on Oct.
The Rich Earth Institute, an environmental nonprofit organization, hosted its seventh annual Summit last week on reclaiming urine as a resource. The Summit is an event that brings together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts to share what they have been learning in the movement to advance circular sanitation systems, with an emphasis on urine, which contains vital plant nutrients. As the Institute has demonstrated in southern Vermont, urine-derived fertilizer can be used to support local farms, rather than having those nutrients...
It wasn't on the docket, but Mindy Haskins Rogers brought it up, reading a statement into Windham Southeast Supervisory School board meeting on Nov. 9 in which she noted how “deeply disturbed” she is that the investigation into abuse at Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) “has dropped completely off” the board's agenda. In response, and after interrupting her to tell her to stop naming people, Chair David Schoales made a brief statement of his own, saying one should not “be...
By a margin of just three votes in a revote, Windham Elementary School will remain open for at least one year, but the controversy and disagreement continues. On Nov. 2, voters went to the polls and voted 142–139 to keep the school open. This action comes two months after voters chose to close the 16-student elementary school by two votes, 137–135, on Sept. 7. However, confusion about the vote - some, apparently, thinking they had voted to close it when,
Turning Point of Windham County is making a significant turn itself, as 13-year Executive Director Susan “Suzie” Walker leaves that leadership role. Not all at once, however. Walker's leaving will be a transition process, as she is at the heart of Turning Point, to ensure continuity and community. The job will be advertised in the next several weeks, and her role is expected to be filled in early 2022. “I've decided to step away from my director role and resume...
Arson investigators from the Vermont State Police are asking for help from the public in finding the culprit behind a series of suspicious fires in Windham County over the past few weeks. Detective Sgt. Matthew Hill of the State Police's Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit (FEIU) said in a news release that his unit is working with the Putney and Marlboro fire departments in an investigation of six fires that have taken place within Windham County since Oct. 2: •
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...
