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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 Department of Public Works continues to have crews out in several areas of town working on road repairs following the severe rainstorm on July 17. Motorists and residents are asked to continue to use caution on roadways when approaching crews and equipment working on these repairs and to expect delays. According to a news release from Highway & Utilities Superintendent Dan Tyler, these are the projects that are ongoing this week: • Hinesburg Road: With the failure of the...
Norma Hardy decided to become a police officer while working for EMS in New York City during the 1980s crack epidemic. Until then, her goal had been to become a lawyer. But Hardy - who steps into her new role as police chief here on July 28, making her the first Black woman in the state to hold that rank - realized that a law career wouldn't allow her to stand on the front lines of people's lives in the...
Man's best friends here are leading in a new way to help build community and make for a more dog-loving, tourist-friendly town. The Wilmington Dog-Friendly Downtown Group and Wilmington Works, a downtown organization that collaborates with businesses on public projects to improve and support a vital downtown, petitioned the Selectboard for $1,010 from the local option sales tax to buy four “poop stations” to be located on trails throughout the downtown. At their July 6 meeting, board members agreed. “Dog...
Marlboro Music has operated a world-renowned summer residency for up-and-coming chamber musicians on the campus of the former Marlboro College on Potash Hill for 70 years - a location that leaders of the nonprofit say that it will soon own. On July 23, Marlboro Music announced that it had reached a purchase agreement with the two organizations currently laying claim to the campus, Democracy Builders Fund, Inc. and Type 1 Civilization Marlboro Campus LLC - one that wraps up the...
A batch of heavy showers and thundershowers on July 17 and 18 dumped about 4.5 inches of rain in the area and caused flash flooding that damaged roadways, flooded basements, kept emergency personnel busy, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to roads in town. No injuries were reported. According to a release from the Brattleboro Fire Department, most of the flooding took place in West Brattleboro, which received the most rain from the storms. Some flooding also...
The skies were gray with intermittent rain. The southbound train was 45 minutes late. And no one on the crowded platform at the Bellows Falls station cared. The train was back. That was all that mattered. After a Covid-imposed hiatus that began in March 2020 when Amtrak shut down all passenger rail service to Vermont, the Vermonter made a triumphant return on July 19 at this historic rail junction. Every rail station in Vermont had a welcome-back celebration to mark...
Residents in Newfane village want drivers to slow their rolls on Route 30 and for the Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) to step up to help in a more substantial way than it has to date. Patricia Johnson and Aaron Naparstek, the two members of the Newfane Traffic Calming Committee, say the situation requires more than signage, which AOT has provided. “People are ripping along on a curvy road,” says Naparstek. Johnson would like to see Route 30 through all...
After 10 years here, Sabine Rhyne will leave the Brattleboro Food Co-op at the end of this year. The general manager says she is looking forward to new challenges, but hasn't planned her next steps. “I haven't made those decisions yet,” Rhyne says. “I'm an all-in kind of person. I'm really focused on completing my time here, and I've got a lot going on. I'll deal with all that next year.” The BFC board will create a hiring committee to...
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...
