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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 state has been approved to welcome up to 100 Afghan refugees at the same time that the refugee resettlement movement overseen by the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) has hired a director for a new office here. Gov. Phil Scott made the announcement last week regarding the Afghan refugees that the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has been approved by the U.S. Department of State to bring here. They are expected within weeks, although no exact arrival...
On March 22, 1961, in the glow of the heady idealism of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, an organization formed here with a goal of promoting a better understanding of the world. Among the founders of the Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) were Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Sen. George Aiken, psychologist and foreign policy expert Hildegard Durfee, and environmentalist Arthur Westing. Sixty years later, this local affiliate of the nonprofit World Affairs Councils of America remains its smallest chapter and...
Voters will need to wait for an opportunity to weigh in on both cannabis legalization in the community and the establishment of a 1-percent local-option sales tax, as the Special Town Meeting originally scheduled for Sept. 17 cannot proceed due to a complication with public notice for the meeting. According to Town Administrator Shane O'Keefe, while the legal warning and notice for the Special Town Meeting was properly posted on the town's website and various public locations within the community,
The Vermont attorney general's office (AGO) has issued a “notice of no objection” to the planned sale of the former Marlboro College campus to an entity owned by the Marlboro Music Festival in a transaction totaling $4.34 million. That nonprofit entity - Potash Hill, Inc. - will acquire the property's 533 acres and 52 buildings from Democracy Builders Fund, a New York City–based nonprofit that purchased the campus in the summer of 2020, only to have its plans for a...
The latest chapter in an emotional election over whether the smallest elementary school in Vermont should stay open ended with a murky outcome and a potential revote. By a 137–135 vote in a special election on Sept. 8, voters approved an article to close Windham Elementary School at the end of the 2021–22 school year. However, an article to authorize the town School Board to pay for tuition for students who want to enroll at a state-approved independent school was...
The 46.96 miles of Vermont Route 9 from the Chesterfield, N.H., bridge to the New York state border has been around in one form or another since the 1760s. Route 9 - officially the Molly Stark Trail through the entirety of its length in Vermont - is part of a key east-west route between Portland, Maine and Albany, N.Y. While the traffic on Route 9, designated a National Scenic Byway in 1995, has evolved over the centuries from slow-moving horse-drawn...
Support and Services at Home (SASH) is celebrating 10 years of success statewide, offering services to help keep older adults and people with disabilities healthy, living independently, and enjoying better quality of life. SASH programs are located at congregate housing sites and serve those residents and other community members. Brattleboro Housing Partnerships (BHP) was the first housing authority to embrace the program. “Having SASH based at the housing site is what makes it work,” says BHP Executive Director Christine Hazzard.
High 5 Adventure Learning Center has announced the launch of a new, online professional development program to support upper elementary through high school educators as they re-engage students in those grades post-pandemic through social-emotional learning (SEL). Founder and Executive Director Jim Grout noted in an Aug. 17 Zoom presentation that the “Rebuilding After COVID” program is High 5's first digital course. “It's pretty simple,” he said. “We have been in adventure learning for 20 years, and social/emotional learning is something...
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...
