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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.
“This will not be your mother's or your grandmother's Town Meeting.” That's how Town Clerk Tim Arsenault described the upcoming 2021 Annual Town Meeting, which will resume Sunday, May 23, at 2 p.m., on the lawn outside Town Hall. The date and time, unanimously approved by Selectboard members on a 4–0 vote, was the result of a recently passed state law that allows towns to postpone their annual meeting dates during the COVID-19 pandemic. The election of officers was technically...
As he gave his town manager's report at the April 6 Selectboard meeting, Peter Elwell made his customary spring announcement about the dates for curbside yard waste pickup. Then, he said that - in the spirit of changes and new seasons - he would share his own change of season: After six years as town manager, he will retire, effective Dec. 31. He views the rest of the year as a track athlete breaking the tape at the finish line.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) announced last week that Amtrak passenger rail service in Vermont will resume, effective July 19. “We are very pleased to announce the restart of these vital transportation services for Vermonters and those who wish to travel to and from Vermont by train or bus,” said Transportation Secretary Joe Flynn in a news release. Amtrak service in Vermont was suspended on March 26, 2020, due to the COVID-19 State of Emergency order issued by Gov.
The town is set to receive $3.3 million in federal COVID aid, according to U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Welch made the announcement at the Selectboard's April 6 meeting. At the same meeting, community members also outlined proposed projects recently submitted to Welch's office as requests made under Community Project Funding, also known as the earmark process. The funding is part of the $1.9 trillion federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), enacted last month. ARPA also includes substantial funding for...
Infrastructure in the 21st century is more than roads, bridges, and water and sewer lines. It's also about making investments in human capital - and no institution in the United States is better positioned than libraries to deliver services, from providing high-speed internet access to lending gardening tools. A group of Vermont's library directors made that case to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during an online roundtable discussion on April 8. Sanders said the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan recently passed...
Spring is on the horizon! This time of year, Windham County residents slowly wave goodbye to chilly winter and welcome sunnier days. But along with sugaring, shrinking snow piles, and crocuses comes Vermont's most infamous interlude, mud season. A spin around local Facebook posts shows a variety of vehicles up to their gunwales in mud, gravel roads with ruts deep enough to swallow the family pet, and signs saying “road closed. local traffic only.” Is this year worse than previous...
A walking path, a kayak launch, a public restroom, and an outdoor amphitheater: those are a few of the design features unveiled by the Hinsdale-Brattleboro Existing Bridges Subcommittee. The group is charged with defining what the Brattleboro and Hinsdale, N.H., communities want for Hinsdale Island (more universally know as “the Island”) and the walkway that will replace the current stretch of Route 119 after the new Hinsdale-Brattleboro bridge is completed. “Very early on in our work we set out some...
The sun shone bright and the wind blew chilly across the lawn of the West Brattleboro Station 2 as firefighters and family members gathered around Leonard Howard III and Charles W. Keir III. One after the other, the two men raised their right hands and repeated their oaths - as fire chief and assistant fire chief, respectively - to Town Clerk Hilary Francis. What Howard and Keir's brief swearing-in ceremony on March 29 lacked in fanfare, it more than made...
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...
