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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.
In 1974, during the fall of his senior year at Brattleboro Union High School, Steve Barrett joined the Brattleboro Fire Department as an on-call firefighter. He's been serving the town ever since. Forty-seven years later, Barrett's long career of serving his town - including 41 years with the Public Works Department - is winding down. He will be retiring as public works director on Dec. 18, which gives him plenty of time to bring his successor, Assistant Public Works Director...
At its Sept. 28 meeting, the Windham Southeast School Board made progress toward abuse investigations, support, and accountability, agreeing by consensus to talk with independent legal counsel, to look for a private investigator and a clinical psychologist, and to form a formal subcommittee. Chair David Schoales suggested members move to explore retaining the services of the Brattleboro Community Justice Center, a clinical psychologist to assess the health climate of the district, an independent investigator, and the Women's Freedom Center. Schoales...
Marlboro Music, the internationally acclaimed chamber music study center and festival, announced Tuesday that it has closed on its purchase of the Potash Hill campus, the former home of Marlboro College. The organization finalized an agreement of sale with Democracy Builders Fund and Type 1 Civilization. The purchase ensures that the campus will remain intact, preserved, and the home campus for Marlboro Music for generations to come. “Acquiring the Potash Hill campus marks a new chapter for Marlboro Music,” Christopher...
Several years after being detected here, the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) continues to munch on a potential feast of more than 150 million ash (Fraxinus) trees in Vermont. That's 5 to 7 percent of the state's trees on average or about 1 in 12 trees, although in some areas, such as the Champlain Islands, the number is more like 40 percent. Losing this many trees would clearly have a significant impact, but there's still time to plan proactively...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board continues to respond to sexual misconduct claims against former Brattleboro Union High School English teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. In a Viewpoint in The Commons [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11], Mindy Haskins Rogers exposed a pattern of Hecker's behavior with students, both in and out of the classroom, and material from a 2009 Brattleboro Police Department investigation. That inquiry uncovered and quoted from a letter from Hecker to a survivor where he...
The five words that anyone associated with a big project loves to say - “on time and on budget” - were uttered frequently by NorthStar Group Services CEO Scott State during a Sept. 20 media tour of the former Vermont Yankee. The New York–based company is in the midst of decommissioning the dormant nuclear power plant, and State told reporters that he is confident that the project of taking it apart can be finished by 2026 - four years ahead...
Maya Lin, the architect who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., once spoke of “the sense of the power of a name.” That power shaped her design of the V-shaped wall of polished black granite, engraved with the names of nearly 58,000 American service members who were killed in combat during the Vietnam War. Those names, listed in the chronological order of their deaths, from the first names in 1959 to the final names in 1975, have a...
While plans move ahead to bring refugees and asylum seekers here from abroad, many are concerned with the already worrisome existing housing shortage and how that is being addressed to help residents and refugees alike. Multiple people involved with local housing needs and the refugee efforts told The Commons that welcoming refugees doesn't appreciably worsen the longstanding problems for people accessing the area's housing market. And, they said, the spotlight from the refugee resettlement efforts could, in fact, bring new...
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...
