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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.
Vermont Bread Company and Koffee Kup Bakery abruptly shut their doors on April 26 and laid off hundreds of workers in Brattleboro and Burlington. According to the Vermont Department of Labor, 156 workers lost their jobs at Koffee Kup's Riverside Avenue bakery in Burlington, and 91 workers lost their jobs at Vermont Bread's bakery on Cotton Mill Hill in Brattleboro. Employees did not have advance warning. Workers who showed up on April 26 were greeted with a closure notice on...
Efficiency, energy generation, energy storage, electrification, and planning are the top priorities the town will use to guide future capital energy projects. The Selectboard has unanimously approved staff's recommendations for creating the Fossil Fuel Free Facilities Fund, with a goal of eliminating the municipality's use of fossil fuels and simultaneously saving money. Each year, the town will invest $70,000 into the fund, which will be similar to the town's capital improvement fund but with a specific focus on energy-related projects...
Planners behind a master plan for one of the town's largest affordable housing organizations hope to gather enough funding to move units out of the flood plain and complete multiple capital projects. According to Tri-Park Cooperative Housing Corporation's 2020 Master Plan, efforts are beginning to identify funding for more than $4 million to implement recommendations that include moving vulnerable homes from potential floodwaters, necessary upgrades to water and sewer infrastructure, and work on two bridges. Three weeks ago, members of...
The 2021 edition of Green Up Day is set for Saturday, May 1 - back on schedule. Traditionally held on the first Saturday in May, this annual roadside cleanup sees Vermonters of all ages get outside and clean up miles of roads throughout the state. Last year, it was delayed a month because of the chaos of the pandemic. Inspired by the first Earth Day in 1970, Green Up Day is Vermont's largest all-volunteer, statewide, one-day event. Green Up Vermont,
Here's a list of what towns in Windham County are doing on Green Up Day, and whom to contact if you want more information: • Athens: Lynn Morgan, 802-869-2227 or jelpmorgan@yahoo.com. Leave full bags and large debris along roadsides. Routes may be worked on anytime between April 26 and May 1. • Brattleboro: Brattleboro Subaru, 1234 Putney Rd., (bag pickup and drop-off); Robin Rieske, 802-275-7232 or rabiah@sover.net. Bags available on Green Up Day from 8 a.m. to noon at Brattleboro...
Mild-mannered engineer Bob Stevens wasn't seeking to become a development superhero when he donned a hard hat 10 years ago to venture into the smoldering shell of Brattleboro's fire-ravaged Brooks House. “I went through with emergency responders to determine if the structure was stable,” he recently recalled. “Everything was so wet, the building was literally weeping.” Stevens determined the central downtown block was soaked but salvageable. What he didn't know was that he and several partners would buy it and,
Six southern Vermont communities with poor - or no - internet could have access to high-speed service by next year, as negotiations are in progress for a vendor to provide broadband to some of the most analog towns in the region. Efforts to bring reliable and affordable communications to the far-flung hills got a big assist in recent days, when a Covid relief bill became law, distributing $3.2 million in state aid from the federal American Rescue Plan to the...
After their plans were delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Tristate Chapter 843 has resumed raising funds to support the visit of the Moving Wall to town in 2021. A half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., the wall is 252 feet long and made of 74 black aluminum panels. It will be on display on Moore Field on Putney Road, near the junction of Routes 5 and 9...
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...
