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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.
There was plenty of jubilation after the May 27 news that a family-owned Canadian baker is buying the recently closed Koffee Kup Bakery of Burlington and its subsidiaries, Vermont Bread Company of Brattleboro and Superior Baking in North Grosvenor Dale, Conn. But that jubilation, and the hope of a quick reopening of the bakeries, turned out to be short-lived. On June 7, during a hearing in Chittenden Superior Court regarding a lawsuit brought against the bakery by its chief creditor,
Leland & Gray Union High School has been chosen as one of five schools in Vermont - and the only one in Windham County - to be part of CFES (College for Every Student) Brilliant Pathways' newly launched North Country Brilliant Pathways program. “It's really exciting,” says Leland & Gray Multiple Pathways Coordinator Terry Davison Berger. “This is going to give us the opportunity to put into place some ideas we've had for a long time but haven't had the...
A reduction in staff has led interim Brattleboro Police Chief Mark Carignan to reduce coverage from three shifts to two. In practice, the schedule is a little more nuanced. According to Carignan, the goal for the change - which took effect May 23 - is to ensure that remaining officers no longer work multiple overtime shifts or more than 16 hours a day. Consequently, the department will reorganize its foot patrols to align with when the town requires the most...
The story of Windham County's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has one of collaboration, improvisation, and cooperation. That story was told to U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., during a June 4 visit to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. It was told, in the room where BMH has vaccinated more than 20,000 people since last December, by some of the people who led the response, such as Josh Davis, executive director of Groundworks Collaborative; Drew Hazelton, chief of operations at Rescue Inc.; Brattleboro...
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, and other health care providers in Vermont, to come up with a new way of delivering health care. BMH had been dabbling with tele-health - doing online health screenings and consultations - before the pandemic hit. With the hospital and its associated primary care practices all but shut down to incoming patients during the early months of the pandemic, the learning curve was steep and fast. According to the hospital's data, BMH went...
For people of color, one impediment to farming is lack of access to farmland. It cannot be overlooked that a generational wealth gap exists and has only grown for people of color, preventing them from owning land and other assets that can accrue value over time. By being marginalized for so many generations, people of color have not had the wealth - including farmland - passed down over time that white people have. And, over those generations, the gap has...
Talk with Black farmer Earl Ransom, owner of Rockbottom Farm in Strafford, about farming in Vermont and you know right away his success is unique and underlines a bigger issue that local Windham County farm initiatives for BIPOC people are trying to address. “I was born here and raised here, but the people who seem most alarmed by the fact of me tend to be from not here,” says Ransom. The 48-year-old Ransom, co-owner of Rockbottom Farm with his wife...
Today, only about 17 of Vermont's 6,000 farms are owned by persons of color. Fifty years ago, approximately 50 Black-owned farms operated in the state. A grassroots effort has been growing here to help heal a history of racism and disparity - in Vermont and in the overall U.S. - and soon, it's hoped, a 37-acre community farm will be a vibrant part of the solution. “Part of what we really believe is that food should be seen as a...
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...
