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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.
GUILFORD-Every tradition starts somewhere, and for Guilford Central School (GCS), 2025 marked the first year of what the school community hopes will be an annual celebration of local agriculture. On Oct. 9, in the heart of harvest season, all 130 students took a morning off from their usual studies to congregate in the "circle garden" in front of the school, where squash, carrots, and tomatoes are still growing. From there, they broke into small multi-age groups to visit six stations...
BELLOWS FALLS-Dozens of firefighters, in full dress uniform and from departments in both Vermont and New Hampshire, honored Bellows Falls Fire Department Captain Lawrence S. "Larry" Clark in a solemn funeral procession on Oct. 11. Clark, 74, died on Oct. 4 after a long battle with cancer. Though he never married or had children, Clark's lifelong service to the community in several capacities - firefighter, fire safety instructor, school guidance counselor, uniformed services grief counselor, scuba diver, and local history...
Other No Kings events scheduled Saturday in the region include the following: • Bellows Falls: 1 to 2:30 p.m., at the corner of Westminster and Church streets, participants will line the sidewalks leading into the square. Drummers will keep the beat. Food drive for Our Place Community Food Project. Co-sponsored by Rockingham Town Democratic Committee and Grafton Supporters of Democracy. • Bennington: 10:30 a.m. to noon, Vermont State Office Building, 200 Veterans Memorial Dr. Sponsored by Bennington County Indivisible. •
BRATTLEBORO-Approximately 25 people turned out Sept. 11 for a Selectboard public budget listening session at Brooks Memorial Library, offering strong and sometimes conflicting feedback for both greater fiscal austerity and more creative revenue generation. Selectboard Chair Elizabeth McLoughlin opened the meeting by clarifying the current budget is not a "double-digit tax increase," as she noted has been reported. "The increased tax rate due to the municipal budget was an increase of 8.9%," she said. "When that tax was factored together...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital CEO Christopher Dougherty is on a leave of absence as state regulators express fears about the not-for-profit's fiscal health. "Stated as directly as possible, we are deeply concerned about BMH's solvency," the Green Mountain Care Board wrote in a recent budget decision. "We believe that its leadership must make big strides to adjust course." The 500-employee hospital named Dougherty as its chief executive officer in the spring of 2022. Two days after the state's Oct. 1 report,
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark thinks about her oath of office daily, a pledge to uphold the Constitution of the United States and doing "equal right and justice to all person [...] according to law." She also regularly draws inspiration from a quote by musician and activist Joan Baez: "Action is the antidote to despair." Nine months into Clark's second term, her office has filed multiple suits against the Trump administration. She told an audience gathered in the Brattleboro Union...
BRATTLEBORO-Anne Koplinka-Loehr, a seventh- and eighth-grade social studies teacher at Brattleboro Area Middle School (BAMS), has been awarded a 2025 Rowland Fellowship to integrate restorative practices throughout the middle school. Koplinka-Loehr, the first Rowland Fellow from BAMS and the Windham Southeast School District, will serve as a teacher on special assignment this academic year, facilitating a group of staff members and students. Even though she's the one with the fellowship, "I definitely see it as something that we are doing...
DUMMERSTON-It takes an almost incalculable amount of community volunteer work to bake nearly 1,000 apple pies in around 70 hours spread out over 10 days, but the volunteers who report to the basement kitchen of Dummerston Congregational Church during the two week run-up to its annual Apple Pie Festival specialize in doing the impossible. Volunteers began preparing and baking pies on Sept. 30 for the 56th annual edition of the church's pie fest. On the morning of Oct. 2 -
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...
