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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.
BRATTLEBORO-Many rallies and vigils at Pliny Park have protested the actions of the Trump administration so far this year, highlighted by gatherings decrying the U.S.’s ongoing intervention in Venezuela and the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis. So, when U.S. forces attacked Iran on Feb. 28, it was not surprising that a vigil protesting those attacks took place the next day at Pliny Park, and that another protest took place there a...
BRATTLEBORO-The town, with technical assistance from consultant MSK Engineers, invites the community to join a local concerns meeting, a discussion about the Black Mountain Road Scoping Study, via Zoom on Thursday, March 19, at 6 p.m. The project seeks "to address chronic road washouts that create financial stress to the town, impair the water quality of the Crosby Brook, and create localized flooding," according to a press release from the town. The purpose of the meeting is to receive comments...
BRATTLEBORO-Lawyer, history scholar, and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore will host a series of local community conversations beginning this month at the Retreat Farm. The agricultural nonprofit and event venue has joined with Vermont Public and Vermont Community Foundation to offer “America at 250: A Four-Part Community Conversation about Our Country, Its Founding, Active Citizenship, and Community.” Each event in the series is to be hosted by Lepore, acclaimed author of These Truths: A History of the United States...
GUILFORD-Growing up in Vermont means getting a formal education in appreciating winter. At 1 p.m. on Feb. 19, all 129 of Guilford Central School’s elementary students poured out of the school’s back doors for the first-ever GCS Winterfest. The sun was shining, the snow was sparkling, and the kids were revved up. Building on the success of the school’s inaugural Farm and Field Day in the fall, Principal John Gagnon asked Farm-to-School Coordinator Sarah Rosow to organize the event. Rosow...
BRATTLEBORO-Incumbent Selectboard Chair Elizabeth McLoughlin has been ousted by current board colleague, Amanda Ellis-Thurber, who is completing her first one-year term, for a three-year seat on the Selectboard. In a second race in the March 3 annual elections, incumbent first-year board member Isaac Evans-Frantz retained his seat for another term and will be joined by newcomer Eleanor "Nell" Mayo. In the first race, Ellis-Thurber received 1,556 votes, McLoughlin received 705, and newcomer Ken Fay - who dropped out of the...
BRATTLEBORO-In one of the most highly controversial and anticipated votes in recent town history, voters went to the polls on March 3 and chose to discontinue Representational Town Meeting (RTM) after 65 years. Unofficial results, which were announced at about 8:40 p.m., showed that the vote to end RTM was close; 1,216 to 1,157. The vote to move to Australian ballot was 1,362 to 945, and the vote to move to a traditional Town Meeting, open to all registered voters,
ROCKINGHAM-In Australian voting Tuesday, with a large turnout of more than 500 voters, Rockingham citizens delivered a clear message: The town is looking ahead, not back. Eight candidates ran for three Selectboard seats, one of the most contested in recent town history. Amy Howlett defeated William Crowther 391 to 73, a more than 5-to-1 margin for a three-year seat on the board. In the race for the one-year seats, incumbent Bonnie North and Dalila Hall won handily with 315 and...
DUMMERSTON-It was standing room only at Dummerston Town Meeting on Tuesday morning as more than 100 people crammed into the Dummerston School gym for the opening of the 2026 Town Meeting. Some were elders who had participated in many of these meetings over the years. Some were newer members of the community, many of them young families with small children. According to Dummerston School Principal Julianne Eagan, school enrollment is increasing. Apart from spending almost four hours (with a 45-minute...
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...
