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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.
Sometimes, the choir needs to get preached to. In the bluest town in the bluest county of Vermont, approximately 500 people crowded onto the Brattleboro Common for an outdoor noontime “town meeting” on Labor Day with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. The stop on Sept. 6 was part of a series of five such meetings held around Vermont during the Labor Day weekend, with stops in Springfield, Newport, St. Johnsbury, and Middlebury to talk about a $3.5 trillion budget resolution...
About 26 people attended an open public brainstorming idea jam on Aug. 31 at Deerfield Bar & Bottle to give local residents, business owners, and second-home owners a chance to voice their opinions about what types of businesses would best fit the town. Attendees included Selectboard members, residents, and current business owners. “Everybody was interested in having the conversation,” Dover Economic Development Director Eric Durocher said after the meeting. “We were excited. I think it went extremely well.” Durocher says...
Dreaming of opening a distillery, maker space, child care center, or golf simulator? You may be in luck. Town officials are thinking outside the box in an effort to encourage new businesses here with Dover Launch, a competition through which the person with the winning plan will receive $20,000 to help make their new business happen. Dover Economic Development Director Eric Durocher says the contest format was chosen “because we like the idea of the amount of interest it brings...
Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital has received “age-friendly” certification and congratulations from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), which called the beloved and smallest hospital in the state “a leader in this rapidly growing movement committed to care of older adults.” In fact, Grace Cottage is among the first health care systems in the U.S. to implement IHI guidelines for age-friendly care. So far, just over 600 health-care institutions in the entire country have been named Age-Friendly Health Systems.
The Selectboard has set a Special Town Meeting for Friday, Sept. 17 for voters to decide whether to permit cannabis sales in the community and whether to establish a 1-percent local-option sales tax. Voting will take place by Australian ballot at the Town Office at 100 Old School St., with polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. An informational hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 8, at 6 p.m., at the Town Hall, 139 Middletown Rd. To provide information...
When the Guilford Fair returns on Sunday, Sept. 5 and Monday, Sept. 6, in addition to rides, vendors, entertainment, blue ribbons, and Bingo, you can also get a COVID-19 vaccination. Rescue Inc. will be outside the front gate offering the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine and both Pfizer doses at the Fair from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days. Those ages 12 to 17 years who want to get the Pfizer vaccine will need to be accompanied by a...
Before her death at age 104, Daisy Turner - a local storyteller whose autobiographical tales dated back to her African ancestors and formerly enslaved parents - loved to share how her family came to settle in this picture postcard of a town a century and a half ago. “The home place was named Journey's End,” she would say, “'cause father never wanted to go no further after he got up there on that hilltop.” Patriarch Alec Turner had fought with...
After more than two years of planning and the disruption of the pandemic, the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall is coming to town from Sept. 16 to 20. The Moving Wall will be on display at Moore's Field on Putney Road, in front of the Fulflex plant near the junction of Routes 5 and 9 and Interstate 91. Len Derby, a member of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Chapter 843 in Brattleboro, has led efforts to bring to town the half-size...
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...
