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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.
BELLOWS FALLS-If approved by town Selectboard and Village Trustees, the Bellows Falls Police Department could begin a 90-day trial program this month, expanding police coverage to include the entire town of Rockingham. Due to insufficient budgets and resulting understaffing, local officials found that the Vermont State Police are able to respond “only to the most serious incidents in rural Windham County,” said Rockingham Selectboard Chair Rick Cowan. “For years, rural Rockingham residents have been coming to the Selectboard seeking a...
WILLIAMSVILLE-It’s Saturday morning at the newly-opened Williamsville General, and a staff of two joins proprietor Emmet Mahdavi greeting and cooking, serving and chatting up as strangers and neighbors come and go with takeout or to stay. The ample space is filled with a mix of sunlit and shaded areas. Its old beams are cleaned and waxed, a handsome canopy to the wide-planked floors lined with café tables on one wall, a large table at center, and a potpourri of chairs.
BRATTLEBORO-David and Shirley Emery of Vernon were named the Brattleboro Region Chamber of Commerce’s Community People of the Year at the Chamber’s annual awards night Sept. 24 at the Brattleboro Country Club. The Emerys, grade-school sweethearts who’ve been married 53 years, were a natural choice for the Chamber’s honors. Called “two people who’ve never really been off duty,” by Chamber Board Member Steve Wolf, the Emerys have offered many decades of service to the community in ways big and small.
VERNON-PowerTransitions officials who held another community meeting on Sept. 23 faced community members who filled the Governor Hunt House’s meeting room, expressing skepticism and concern that Vernon could become home to an expensive, potentially hazardous energy installation. Employees at the Texas-based company, which recently signed an option lease agreement with NorthStar to install an energy project on the 140-acre site of the former Vermont Yankee Nuclear plant, arrived at the Governor Hunt House prepared to take feedback on a potential...
WILMINGTON-Vermont must reduce its education costs or face further increases in property tax rates, but residents will defend their local schools against the threat of closure, and Twin Valley School District is no exception, according to superintendent Bill Bazyk. In an interview just ahead of the first meetings of districts to study possible mergers, Bazyk said Vermont has wrestled with the question of how to control public education costs through three recent laws. The latest one, Act 170 of 2026,
ATHENS-Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, “Americans are concerned about election integrity and democratic processes,” reports the Democracy for All Project of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Gallup, the polling and analytics firm. The top concerns include political leaders pressuring election officials to change election outcomes (67%) , ballots not being properly handled, counted, or secured (57%), and voter intimidation near polling places (52%). Such unprecedented concerns prompted Tim Stevenson of Athens with Lisa Moir and Sarah Waldo of...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont WIC staff came to the Windham Regional Food Security Network on Sept. 9 with a problem they can’t solve alone: Hundreds of local families who qualify for the federal nutrition program aren’t signing up. WIC — short for the program’s formal name, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children — is for expectant and new parents, infants, and children up to age 5 who face nutrition risk (a person’s likelihood of developing poor health outcomes due...
BELLOWS FALLS-With a cheer of “out with the old, in with Janoo,” an enthusiastic crowd of around 100 people met with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amanda Janoo Sept. 18 for a morning question-and-answer session at the Flat Iron Café. The crowd was standing room only and spilled out onto the sidewalk. Janoo faces incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Scott, who is running for his sixth two-year term. She has strong local support however, as Janoo defeated her challenger in the August Democratic...
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...
