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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.
GUILFORD-Just when so many of us are ready to accept that this Vermont winter will never end, the sap starts running. At the annual Sugar on Snow Supper at Broad Brook Community Center (BBCC) on March 7, neighbors sat shoulder to shoulder at long community tables passing around the deviled eggs, baked beans, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, and coleslaw made by Broad Brook Grange members and others in the community. Volunteers — ranging in age from tweens to nearly 90...
BRATTLEBORO-As Norma Hardy sits down to talk about her four-and-half-year tenure at the Brattleboro Police Department, it’s clear what’s top of mind for her. The departing police chief points to a 2-inch-thick stack of paper — printouts of department emails and texts — that she will provide for a public records request from someone in Massachusetts. “I don’t know what they’re going to do with it. They’re probably going to try to use it for the same purposes,” she says,
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital may be on the brink of a nurses’ strike. This is not good news for the hospital, as it comes on top of a disappearing chief executive, the resignation of its chief financial officer, an influx of hospital financial experts, the recalculation of a $14.5 million budget deficit that will take between two and three years to eradicate, and an ongoing top-to-bottom examination of costs and services that includes mediation with two unions. The unions are not...
BRATTLEBORO-It has taken years and years for Chloe Learey, executive director of the Winston Prouty Center, to raise funding to begin building the Village at Winston Prouty on the former Austine School campus in Brattleboro. Now Brattleboro native and State Treasurer Michael Pieciak has given the project a major boost. On March 12, Pieciak stopped off in Brattleboro to join a party of 40 or so of the town’s movers and shakers and to announce that $4 million from his...
BRATTLEBORO-While the town’s Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee issued a “short preview” of its independent budget report and it was not exactly on board with the about $27 million budget the Selectboard voted to recommend in January, things may have changed. For sure what has changed post-annual election is that the vote kicked in a few new wrinkles that are set to be addressed at the Tuesday, March 10, Selectboard meeting after press time. Now that voters have eliminated Representative...
BRATTLEBORO-Current Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board co-Chair Kimberly Price was re-elected to represent Brattleboro for a three-year term after besting Richard “Rich” Leavy in the March 3 district election, 1,285 to 1,059. In the contest for a one-year seat representing Dummerston on the board, Paul Smith took the seat, beating Daniel Everlith, 1,230 to 758. “I want to thank everyone that voted for me,” said Price, a former Windham Southeast Supervisory Union middle school science teacher and the district’s...
ROCKINGHAM-The newly consolidated Rockingham Fire and Rescue Department (RFRD) is moving ahead with new equipment and other efforts to help ensure its ability to provide services to the entire town. To that end, in February, the RFRD acquired a new utility terrain vehicle (UTV) — and a trailer to transport it — to help in off-road fire and rescue operations. The department also has a Rockingham Community Risk Reduction program to help residents make sure their homes are easily identifiable...
HALIFAX-An early March snow coated the ground around the Halifax Elementary School. Meanwhile, inside the school's gymnasium, Halifax voters gathered for Annual Town Meeting, wrapped in savory scents rising from an army of slow cookers on standby for the lunch break. Voters took approximately 90 minutes to consider 11 articles during the meeting's municipal portion. All the articles passed as presented. Among the decisions, voters approved $30,000 to replenish the Operational Reserve Fund, which covers disaster expenses; they eliminated the...
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...
