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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-The town will be modifying its parking zones on Wednesday, Sept. 3. To prepare for this transition, parking will be free on Tuesday, Sept. 2. According to a news release, parking zones will be renamed using numbers only to streamline the payment process. Rather than typing the word "zone" followed by a number, users will simply enter a string of numbers when paying through the Park Smarter app or text-to-pay system. For example, rather than typing "Zone1," users will enter...
The Windham County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is attempting to change the way that local law enforcement resources are provided and how they are funded by working with the legislature to make the system more stable. According to Sheriff Mark Anderson, the Regional Policing Initiative could look to the Legislature to create one governing body to address the needs of the 19 towns in the county that are without their own policing infrastructure. Only Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Dover, and Wilmington have...
HomeShare Vermont, a nonprofit that connects people with extra space in their homes to those in need of affordable housing, is bringing its services to Windham and Windsor counties. With an acute need for all types of housing in the state, HomeShare Vermont's model will be another "tool in the housing toolbox for this region," said Connor Timmons, HomeShare's executive director. Timmons presented the matchmaking service at a recent meeting of the Housing Coalition of Southeastern Vermont, a cross-sector planning...
ROCKINGHAM-Rural gardeners and farmers have long known that the common earthworm (also known as the nightcrawler or fishing worm) is one of the best things for improving soil health. But in the case of the invasive jumping worm (also known as the snake worm or crazy worm), scientists are finding out that something that looks almost exactly like the well-known fishing worms we grew up with turns out to be very destructive to soils and eco-systems. In Vermont, Amynthas tokioensis...
EAST DUMMERSTON-A three-alarm fire on Aug. 16 has destroyed a Windham County agricultural landmark. A building that housed the farm stand, cold storage, and maple sugaring operation at Dwight Miller Orchards on Miller Road was leveled in the Saturday afternoon fire. "The packing house building was home to our cold storage and produce coolers, our cider press and apple packing facilities, our retail area, our maple evaporator and sugaring equipment," the family posted on the farm's website in a message...
BRATTLEBORO-Less than two months before the close of its fiscal year, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is still trying to find enough cost reductions and new revenue to balance its current $119 million budget. "FY25 has been a financially challenging year," hospital leaders wrote to state health care regulators in a memo shared at an Aug. 6 review hearing. "BMH currently has a comprehensive financial recovery plan in place; however, we are at risk of failing to fully deliver on some of...
ROCKINGHAM-The town Selectboard and the village trustees of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River have decided on new property tax rates and, over the weekend, released a tax fact sheet with the rates on the town website. The new rates follow the 2024 property value reappraisals, the town's first in eight years, where Rockingham's Grand List saw a 50% increase in property values, its bottom line rising from $492 million to $741 million. Tax bills for fiscal year July 1, 2025,
PUTNEY-In May, two friends, both residents of Putney Meadows senior housing, were walking on the sidewalk near the Putney Food Co-op when a car jumped the curb and hit them. Deborah Bozetarnik, 68, was slightly injured, but the injuries of 77-year-old Diane Clementine were severe and, after a lengthy hospitalization, she died on June 2. Responding to the shock of the accident and concerned about pedestrian safety, Putney Community Cares Inc. (PCCI) has initiated the WalkSafe Putney project. The program...
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...
