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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 U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the 2021 Maple Syrup Survey for the Northeast Region. The survey will collect information from approximately 1,600 Northeastern producers. “The Northeastern Region produced 3.94 million gallons of maple syrup in 2020. Vermont was the top Maple Syrup state with 51 percent of the United States' maple syrup,” King Whetstone, director of the NASS Northeastern Regional Field Office, said in a news release. “Taps in the Northeastern Region totaled...
Gallery Walk returns to the downtown area on Friday, May 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. after two years - and it's all new. Formerly organized by the Arts Council of Windham County and led for years by volunteer Joy Wallens-Penford before her death last year, this year the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA) has taken the reins. Are organizers excited? “Oh, my God! The thing that's great is we're getting to imagine and manifest the Gallery Walk of our dreams,
Voters of the Windham Southeast School District will decide on Tuesday, May 11 whether to authorize borrowing up to $2 million to renovate the Academy School in West Brattleboro, which serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The proposed renovations include measures to improve indoor air quality, replacing windows in 14 classrooms, reconfiguring a classroom to support small group learning, bulldozing a temporary modular unit, and building a 2,000-square-foot addition. In a press release, engineering and architecture firm Stevens &
Funding for infrastructure work at the Tri-Park Cooperative Housing is one of 10 projects selected by U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., for Community Project Funding (known as earmarks) in the federal fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill. If authorized, the organization could receive up to $1.3 million. “This is very exciting and very wonderful,” Tri-Park Board President Kay Curtis said. According to Curtis, in 2011, Tropical Storm Irene damaged 20 homes in the park. If the park keeps losing homes to...
State and local officials are scrambling to help the 91 employees of Vermont Bread Company who suddenly lost their jobs when its owner, Burlington's Koffee Kup Bakery, shut down operations on April 26. In the aftermath of the closing, one former employee, Matthew Chaney of Brattleboro, is the first plaintiff in a class action suit that alleges the abrupt shutdown was a violation of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The closure came after a majority of...
Last week, the statewide Everyone Eats! program celebrated an important milestone by serving its one millionth meal. The program, which has provided meals prepared by local restaurants to Vermonters experiencing any of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, started in Brattleboro last summer. It soon grew into a statewide initiative, thanks to an allocation of $5 million of the state's Coronavirus Relief Fund by the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development to Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA), which...
On Tuesday, May 11, voters in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney will be asked to approve financing for renovations to the Academy School in Brattleboro, which will include an addition and updates to learning environments for students in kindergarten through grade 6. According to a news release, included in project, estimated at $2 million, are a new wing, replacement windows, updated heating, and ventilation improvements. Energy-efficient products, processes, and mechanical equipment and designs will be used. Due to COVID-19 and...
The principal figure in an educational nonprofit's acquisition of the former Marlboro College campus in 2019 was arrested early Tuesday morning in New York City on three charges of financial fraud. Seth Andrew has been removed as president of Democracy Builders Fund, the owner of the campus on South Street, and from the board of directors of Degrees of Freedom, the program emerging on Potash Hill. He has entered a plea of not guilty to federal charges of wire fraud,
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...
