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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.
Noontime on Town Meeting Day in Dummerston usually means a lunch break for baked ham, macaroni and cheese, and pie before voters plow through the rest of the meeting warrant in the afternoon. But the gymnasium at Dummerston School was empty on Tuesday, as COVID-19 concerns prompted the town to switch to the Australian ballot to vote on the budget and other matters. Instead, the noontime scene shifted to Dummerston Center and a group of mostly unused and socially distanced...
On the surface, the Annual Town Meeting is about voting on municipal business, such as raising funds for the town budget or taking on debt for a new snowplow. Buried under the meeting warning and Robert's Rules of Order, however, are the principles of self governance and community cohesion: a government of the community, by the community, and for the community. But holding these conversations and making decisions require civic muscles that also need regular workouts. It's these civic muscles...
When Peter “Fish” Case and his wife Vickie said goodbye to their beloved Staffordshire terrier Dutch a few months ago, their hearts broke and they vowed not to get another dog. Then, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, smiling Finnegan loped into their lives and their hearts melted. Again. “My wife and I decided a house ... just ain't a home ... unless you've got a dog,” Peter Case says with a smile. “We lost Dutch in the middle of December. He...
On March 2, voters will be among a handful of Vermont towns considering whether to opt in to the state's retail cannabis market. Under state statute, towns must vote to decide whether to allow recreational cannabis retail businesses to open within their borders. The yes/no question on the Australian ballot for voters is “Shall the Town permit the operation of licensed cannabis retailers subject to such municipal ordinance and regulation as the Selectboard may lawfully adopt and implement?” The ballot...
Ice fishing has happened for thousands of years in this area, explained Rich Holschuh. Using a sharp instrument, an Abenaki angler would hack a hole in the ice, he said. “And then the practice was to build a little tiny hut over [the hole] like a little tent, a little tiny wigwam, and that also had the effect of cutting down on the glare so that you could see down into the water,” he explained. “You would physically lay down...
When was the last time you danced at the Stone Church to musicians performing live music? What movie did you last watch in the Latchis main theater? What story was most recently told during Fables Storytelling on the first floor of Next Stage Arts? How long since your children sat in a circle for story hour at their local library? Like a sad game of Mad Libs, the phrase “before the pandemic” could fit most responses. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
COVID-19 forced the Harris Hill Ski Jump to cancel its annual February competition, but it hasn't stopped Vermont's sole Olympic-size venue from leaping forward and launching its centennial celebration for 2022. “There aren't many traditions in sports that go back 100 years,” Peter Graves, an East Thetford resident and 11-time Winter Games broadcaster, said in announcing a Harris Hill Story Project to gather competitor and crowd memories. “Historically, this is one of the oldest tournaments in the world.” It all...
In Vermont, Town Meeting is the occasion where the audience becomes legislators. However, the tradition of people exercising their responsibilities as local lawmakers looks different this year due to the necessary public health measures that towns are taking in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of in-person gatherings, approximately three-quarters of Vermont's towns have opted to conduct business on Tuesday, March 2, using Australian ballots, a temporary measure enacted into law in response to the pandemic. In Windham County, only...
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...
