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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.
Town Meeting members overwhelmingly approved $12.5 million to upgrade the municipal Water Treatment Plant last week. The 111–2 vote officially capped off Annual Representative Town Meeting, which lasted 15 hours over two days. On March 21, meeting members voted to recess the ARTM until March 26. This action was necessary to give members a week to drop off their ballots at the Municipal Center. Under state law, voting by Australian ballot is required for bond votes. Director of Public Works...
In college, JoAnne Blanchard planned to become an art therapist and work with children. That plan changed. She found that professional trajectory disrupted by a job that brought her into contact with the elder population and by her close relationship with her grandmother. “Everyone has a reason why you get into taking care of elderly, and my grandmother was a big piece of that,” she said. But in her first job working for the Council on Aging - now Senior...
You weren't imagining things if you saw an Amtrak train whizzing through town on March 15. It was just one sign that Amtrak service to Vermont, which was shut down on March 26, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is in the process of being resumed. The train that passed through Brattleboro was what Amtrak calls a “requalification run” for engineers and conductors who will be operating the Vermonter, the daily train that had run between St. Albans and Washington,
School resource officers (SROs) are no longer a presence at Brattleboro Union High School, prompting activists opposing law enforcement in schools to celebrate and Windham County Sheriff Mark Anderson to term it a “hasty decision.” After a March 17 meeting of the board's Social Justice Committee, Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Superintendent Andrew Skarzynski and BUHS Principal Steve Perrin decided to cancel all SROs for the remainder of this school year. Recent community criticism of the presence of SROs -
On the one-year anniversary of Vermont reporting its first two deaths from COVID-19, Gov. Phil Scott and state officials presented a new vaccination schedule that would have all Vermonters over the age of 16 to be fully vaccinated by July 1. At a March 19 news briefing in Montpelier, Scott said the state is continuing with its “age band” strategy for vaccinations. “Our age banding approach has allowed us to first protect those at greatest risk of hospitalization and death,
During a two-day Annual Representative Town Meeting this weekend, meeting members increased Selectboard compensation, continuing the trend from previous years of focusing on people over line items. “My goal here is to try to open the potential field of Selectboard candidates, to include some folks who are often underrepresented,” Meeting Member George Carvill (District 1) said in proposing an amendment to boost the pay of the elected town officials. “I'm not suggesting that money is the primary motivation for a...
A $150,000 grant from TD Bank will help Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) cope with myriad housing challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The money, says Executive Director Elizabeth Bridgewater, will support a collaboration between WWHT and Groundworks Collaborative, another social-services nonprofit, to provide housing and supportive services for residents living at The Chalet in West Brattleboro. The Chalet follows the model of the Trust's Great River Terrace, hailed as the first permanent supportive housing project in southern Vermont...
The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual spring Legislative Breakfast on March 15 - but minus the bacon and eggs, as COVID-19 turned the ritual update on happenings in Montpelier into a virtual affair. The morning started with some light trash talking between Rep. Mike Mrowicki and Sen. Jeanette White as the two Putney Democrats traded barbs on whose chamber worked harder. Ten Windham County lawmakers outlined bills they're working on that might interest local businesses, on such...
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...
