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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.
Prior to the pandemic, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the nation's arts and culture sector comprised 4.3 percent of the economy and represented a $919.7 billion industry with 5.2 million jobs. The World Economic Forum in May 2020 reported that the music industry lost approximately half its revenue with the cancellation of concerts and other performances. Globally, the industry was worth more than $50 billion, with live music making up half the industry's revenues, the forum estimated.
Marlboro Music began its 70th summer season last month, as 75 musicians journeyed to Potash Hill to study, practice, and perform together. The musician residency and summer performance series has drawn musicians and music lovers to the area for decades, leaving a hole in many local music lovers' sense of normalcy last year when the school cancelled its program in response to the global pandemic. It is also why the school's return this summer can be seen as a celebration...
Thanks to community support and a successful inter-agency collaboration to preserve Windham County's biodiversity, the nonprofit Green Mountain Conservancy (GMC) has added 627 acres to the Deer Run Nature Preserve, augmenting the 297 acres bought 18 months ago. “It feels great, absolutely wonderful; we are absolutely delighted,” said Green Mountain Conservancy President Mary Ellen Copeland, calling the buy “a huge success.” “It's a beautiful, beautiful place,” she said. “There are some openings for power lines we have to put up...
The Windham Southeast Supervisory Union begins its new fiscal year with a new leader: Green Street School Principal Mark Speno, who will serve as the WSESU's interim superintendent. “I'm embracing the challenge,” Speno said on July 2 from his office at Green Street School, where he has served for seven years and where he is preparing to lead schools serving Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, through June 30, 2022. While the role of superintendent is new for him, finding ways to...
The State Board of Libraries Geographic Naming Committee unanimously voted down a petition to rename a brook in Townshend after former resident Susanna Toby. Board member Linda Saarinjoki made the motion to reject the petition with an explanation attached. “We're in favor of changing the name, but not to Susanna Toby,” Saarinjoki said. Like a core sample marking the Earth's history of volcanos, floods, forest fires, and fossils in compact layers of rock and sediment, the June 17 public hearing...
After 14 years, Windham County Humane Society (WCHS) Executive Director Annie Guion is leaving at the end of the year as the shelter prepares for a future that includes constructing an addition to the existing facility. Calling her work here “the best of my life and my most fun and fulfilling job to date,” Guion says it's time for her to “move on to the next adventure.” Noting her partner, Chuck Corman, is retiring and the couple is planning “to...
A national refugee resettlement group hopes Brattleboro will be the site of a new satellite office as well as home for up to 75 refugees from around the world by the new year. As part of its Welcoming Communities program, the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) has been facilitating efforts by the Ethiopian Development Community Council (EDCC) to help resettle refugees in more rural U.S. locations. The town made the list of six new resettlement sites hoped for this year,
The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office on Route 5 has been closed since March 2020, when Gov. Phil Scott declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the state of emergency was lifted June 15 when the state met its vaccination goal, the DMV has issued no word on whether Dummerston and other satellite offices - Middlebury, St. Albans, St. Johnsbury, and White River Junction - will reopen. All have been closed since the pandemic.
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...
