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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-Bill Holiday was born and raised here in Brattleboro. He went to Windham College, and he taught social studies in a very innovative way at Brattleboro Union High School for 48 years. He's been in the Brattleboro area all these years, and still is doing things that are exciting and going by his curiosity of the world and its people. He has organized field studies, taking his students and other educators outside the school building to where history unfolded: Alabama...
WILMINGTON-For those who regularly dine at the Maple Leaf Tavern, employees Analia Franco and Erick Mackay have become familiar faces. Though it wasn't necessarily in either of their life plans to live in Vermont, both say they've found stability here thanks to the willingness of owner Sean Pusey to help them obtain visas to continue working at the restaurant at 3 North Main St. Franco and Mackay hail from Paraguay and Honduras, respectively. They met while working at Mount Snow...
PUTNEY-It was certainly not their first career when Kate and Charles Dodge founded the Putney Mountain Winery in 1998. But now, having successfully built a sophisticated wine business, they are moving on to their life's next chapter. On Aug. 1, they finalized the sale of the company to five of their employees - who call their company "The Fermented Five" - and who will carry the business into the future as an employee cooperative. Before the winery, Charles, 83, had...
Prospects for a second Amtrak train calling in Brattleboro look slightly better than in past years in light of the upcoming state rail plan, published in draft form in June. The document lists, as a "recommended initiative," the northward extension of Amtrak's Valley Flyer train from its current northern terminus in Greenfield, Massachusetts, just south of the Vermont border, to either Brattleboro or White River Junction. The last state rail plan, which the Agency of Transportation (AOT) published in 2021,
BRATTLEBORO-The basic structure of any local economy is built upon a continual stream of new workers entering the work force to replace those who are winding down their careers. This is something that the Brattleboro job market, with its diverse and distinct business community and work force, is currently struggling with, according to several people who are working on the issue at the local and state levels and spoke with The Commons about their perceptions of the local economic landscape.
BRATTLEBORO-As Congress devolves in front of our eyes and the federal government appears to be rapidly abandoning working Americans, Windham County's own U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D–Vermont, is fighting the good fight in Washington, D.C. She recently became the chair of a Progressive Caucus Ending Corporate Greed Task Force, and she has worked out her own estimate of the cost to Americans in general and to Vermonters specifically of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, recently passed by Republicans and...
-Vermont's landmark education bill, recently signed into law, queues up some big changes to the state's education system in the months and years to come. But one immediate impact is the bill's effect on private schools, called "independent schools" under Vermont law. Those changes, which went into effect on July 1 - the same day Gov. Phil Scott signed Act 73 into law - have left some independent schools and advocates uncertain and others reeling. Under the new law, private...
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board recently approved new deer hunting rules including one that will allow hunters to harvest does with rifles during the regular November season. The rules, passed on a 7-5 vote at the board's July 16 meeting, will take effect in 2026. Current rules still govern the hunting season this year. But next year, for the first time since the 1980s, hunters in Vermont will be able to hunt female and antlerless deer using rifles and...
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...
