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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-Voters will decide in March whether to approve a proposed $27,018,335 fiscal year 2027 town budget after Selectboard members voted 3–2 to approve the plan. Board members Isaac Evans-Frantz and Amanda Ellis-Thurber voted against it, while Vice Chair Oscar Heller, Chair Elizabeth McLoughlin, and member Peter Case voted in favor. The meeting date will depend on what format voters choose in an upcoming vote: retaining Representative Town Meeting or moving to a “regular” annual meeting format. The board started the...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-After two years running it, Royal Diner co-owner Bo Foard and partner David Manning have closed its doors and are quietly talking to folks who’ve expressed interest in buying the building it’s in. “It’s been a pleasure, but we’re moving on,” said Foard by phone on Jan. 19, noting there was not a particular issue or problem; the time had just come for him to wrap it up at the Marlboro Road property. “I just kind of reached the...
BRATTLEBORO-A union representing nurses at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is threatening to strike after the 500-employee facility changed its contract offer upon projecting a $14.5 million annual budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. The 135-member Brattleboro Federation of Nurses said the hospital had proposed wage increases totaling 11% over three years, only to reduce that figure during negotiations this week to no raises at all. "They are asking the nurses basically to bail them out," Tracy Ouellette, a nurse and...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont health care regulators have issued a warning, but won't intervene, as new leaders at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital work to control a projected $14.5 million annual budget shortfall. "We want Brattleboro to thrive," Owen Foster, chair of the state's Green Mountain Care Board, said during a pair of review hearings that ended Jan. 21. "The solution to make sure that happens is the management needs to identify the essential services for that community and it needs to come up with...
BELLOWS FALLS-Former Friends of Music at Guilford (FOMAG) conductor, co-founder with his wife of Southern Vermont Lyric Theatre, and music minister at Grafton Community Church Kenneth J. Olsson, 54, is being held without bail after arraignment in Windham County Superior Court. According to Vermont State Police (VSP), on May 12, 2025, detectives from the VSP’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Troop B East, were notified of a report of sexual assault, lewd or lascivious conduct, and domestic violence perpetrated against a...
BRATTLEBORO-Public hearings regarding changes to the town charter that have come to the Selectboard via petition will be held Tuesday, Jan. 27, in the Municipal Center and via Zoom, and Thursday, Feb. 5 at 6:15 p.m. in the Selectboard meeting room. State law requires that the Selectboard hold at least two public hearings prior to voter consideration of the charter proposal. The town has received two petitions signed by 5% of voters to amend the town charter. The petitions were...
BELLOWS FALLS-Community activist, writer, and Bellows Falls Village Trustee Susan MacNeil lived her last few hours exactly as she’d lived the previous 72 years. Committed all of her life to social justice, on the evening of Jan. 8, MacNeil attended a hastily organized candlelight memorial downtown in memory of Renee Good, who had been killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents earlier in the week in Minneapolis. On the way to the rally, MacNeil, a lover of good food,
BRATTLEBORO-One part of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s long financial nightmare may be ending this week, if and when the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB), which oversees hospital budgets, accepts BMH’s revised budget for 2026. However, the hospital’s problems will be far from over. Some of its problems are shared by almost all the rural hospitals in the United States. Some are unique to Brattleboro. For both kinds, solutions will be a long time coming. If you regard BMH, with its $14.5...
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...
