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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.
VERNON-Vernon voters at Annual Town Meeting on March 2 approved an almost-level-funded school budget and added funds to the municipal budget for fire department recruitment. Voters approved a final amended town budget of $2,539,970. In its proposed budget, the Selectboard also decided to use $100,000 from the general fund to offset taxes. Town Meeting also approved the Selectboard's proposal to appoint the town treasurer - a move that town officials have described as a precaution due to "liability issues" -
Newfane to explore Town Meeting changes; condemns ICE, Iran conflictNEWFANE - Voters gathered at Union Hall on March 3 to approve spending about $1.9 million for general and highway operations, put $497,000 in the Capital Reserve Fund, and provide $42,435 for 30 nonprofit and community organizations. Other spending approved included $25,467 for annual payments on the town's excavator and $6,750 for the Reappraisal Reserve Fund. Voters approved a pair of non-binding resolutions. The first, proposed by Dan DeWalt, was a...
BRATTLEBORO-Light pours in through ample glass surfaces at the newly opened Multicultural Community Center (MCC) at 28 Vernon St. On any given day, the MCC, a service sponsored by the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC), welcomes new Vermonters of all ages from countries all over the world to the cozy and inviting community space, which is clean and sunny with cultural icons, bright wall hangings, and cheery carpets and furniture, most of which was donated. The organization intends to offer...
BRATTLEBORO-Incumbent Kimberly “Kim” Price is vying with Richard “Rich” Leavy for a three-year seat representing Brattleboro on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school board, and newcomers Daniel Everlith and Paul Smith are competing for a three-year term representing Dummerston on the board. Incumbent Putney representative Ruby McAdoo is running unopposed for another three-year term. She joined the board in 2023. The election is Tuesday, March 3. Voters from all district member towns — Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney —
BRATTLEBORO-Voters in Brattleboro heading to the polls on Tuesday, March 3, will face a crowded field of Selectboard candidates for three seats this year. Current Selectboard Chair Elizabeth McLoughlin is being challenged for the three-year seat she now holds by current board member Amanda Ellis-Thurber, who is completing her first one-year term on the board, and political outsider Ken Fay. In a second race, incumbent first-year board member Isaac Evans-Frantz is running along with newcomers Randall “Randy” Blodgett, Deena Chadwick,
-Most Vermonters tap March Town Meetings to chew over proposed local spending and, on occasion, a potluck lunch. But residents in Newfane, population 1,645, have bit into a smorgasbord of larger issues, be it calls to ban genetically modified foods in 2002, impeach President George W. Bush in 2006, oppose the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza in 2024 or pledge to be “an apartheid-free community” in 2025. “When Vermont Town Meetings speak, the nation and the world listens,” resident Dan DeWalt,
BELLOWS FALLS-On Feb. 20, U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, got to do what he says is "a part of my job that I love, talking to regular Vermonters." His morning meeting with over a dozen "regular Vermonters" at the Bellows Falls Municipal Fire Station had the added bonus of Welch handing over $598,000 to aid the Rockingham Municipal Fire Department build a new fire station with expanded emergency services in Saxtons River. Welch is the ranking member of the Senate...
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...
