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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-Six months after the Selectboard put the brakes on free Sunday parking, plans are in motion to bring it back and to make other changes within the new parking system, which could result in "a better process for tourists, residents, and people coming downtown to shop," according to Highway and Maintenance Superintendent Darren Pacheco. The board met May 6 with Pacheco and Assistant Police Chief Jeremy Evans, whose department is now overseeing the parking system, to hear how things have...
BRATTLEBORO-Gutting the arts is unquestionably the wrong way to stimulate the economy. According to the website of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in 2024 "Arts and Cultural Industries Grew at Twice the Rate of the U.S. Economy, Adding $1.2 Trillion." So when the Trump administration announced its desire to close the NEA as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and then started to cut funding and pull grants, its actions plunged a cold knife directly...
BRATTLEBORO-• Franklin Chrisco of Brattleboro, co-owner of True North Granola, is a vendor: "We've been a part of BAFM for 18 years. The community is the main thing that works. All these folks are independent. They are creative and thoughtful and care about each other. Our market is a juried market so the quality is high. It's a lab for us. We started with one product and now we have 20. Our first product, Go Nuts, with almonds, pecans, pistachios,
BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires has reason to wait until the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont's annual Walk for Life fundraiser later this month. The 94-year-old didn't know much about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) when it struck her son, former state Rep. Ronald Squires, D-Guilford, some four decades ago. The lawmaker was the first in the Vermont Legislature to announce his homosexuality,
PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based Evernorth celebrated the groundbreaking of 25 mixed-income, energy-efficient apartments on Alice Holway Drive on May 5. The 25 new apartments will help address the housing shortage in Putney, which is estimated to need 80 new rental and owner-occupied homes within the next five years, according to the town's recently released Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan. According to the project developers, these highly energy-efficient homes...
ROCKINGHAM-A crew from Hartgen Archeological Associates spent a week at the Rockingham Meeting House earlier this month, completing a survey of the property using ground radar and digging test pits. The project takes place in anticipation of work to stabilize the building, which dates to 1787 and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2000. According to the town's website, the Meeting House is "the largest intact 18th [century] public building remaining in Vermont still in its original form and...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown produce to southeastern Vermont, and invites you - whether you are a foodie, a restaurateur, a health enthusiast, or simply someone who loves to be outside - to join us! We offer the freshest foods and agricultural products that can be produced in our Vermont soils. The market additionally offers our community a welcoming outdoor gathering place, with live music, tables to use while talking...
BRATTLEBORO-Given so many angry protests about the Trump administration recently, some residents thought that a positive, welcoming, whimsical approach for just one day might add a breath of fresh air. So they set up Vermont Canada Day. The idea is simple: Canada is not an enemy, nor a potential 51st state, as the president has forebodingly suggested. It is, by many objective yardsticks, a good friend and neighbor of Vermont. July 1, Canada Day, is the official Canadian celebration of...
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...
