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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-After eight intense meetings to draft a new budget, the Selectboard has voted to recommend a $24.97 million budget for fiscal year 2026 budget - a budget just 1.3% less than the one that Representative Town Meeting failed to pass in March. The Selectboard-recommended plan proposes a 10.8% increase in municipal taxes, but taxpayers can expect to see their bills increase by about 5.6% on the tax levy in fiscal year 2026 when the school district is factored in. If...
BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not have imagined he would go on to build a $5 million regional food distribution network that would fundamentally reshape how communities think about local agriculture. Now, after nearly two decades of pioneering local and regional food distribution, Berkfield, founding director of Food Connects in Brattleboro, is stepping down. Since March 24, Deputy Director Lee Halpern has served as interim executive director, with Berkfield helping with...
BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a vision to transform an abandoned, polluted 8-acre former industrial site along the Connecticut River into a universally accessible community park. That vision has resulted in Riverfront Park, a beautiful green space in the center of the Village, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, with accessible hiking trails, meadows, benches, picnic tables, a pond, a labyrinth, and the only direct access to the river...
BRATTLEBORO-On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Brattleboro to protect democracy and denounce the Trump administration's effort to roll back workers' rights, cut education funding, carry out mass deportations, and much more. "Show up and make your voices heard," said Calvin Dame of Brattleboro Area Action, one of the organizers of a May Day march along with Brattleboro Indivisible and 50501 Vermont. "This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong." "This is...
MONTPELIER-Funding may be at risk for a nonprofit program that buys local food and gives it to Vermonters struggling with money - so its leaders are backing a bill that would solidify its budget through a state agency, rather than grants and donations. Vermonters Feeding Vermonters, created and run by the Vermont Foodbank, helps get locally grown produce and protein into the hands of food-insecure Vermonters. Started in 2018, the program provides money to purchase food wholesale from local farms,
BRATTLEBORO-It's been a month of lengthy, intense Selectboard meetings since Representative Town Meeting (RTM) rejected the proposed fiscal year 2026 operating budget on March 22. The strain has showed. RTM voters rejected a municipal budget that would represent a 12% increase in town taxes, or an overall 6.2% increase in Brattleboro property owners' total tax burden, if you factor in the school district budget. With three newly elected board members whom many voted into office to bring new voices and...
BRATTLEBORO-When Representative Town Meeting members rejected a $25 million municipal budget for the coming fiscal year, they returned it to local leaders for revision in hopes of lowering a 12% projected tax increase. No one anticipated costs might instead climb higher. Officials have discovered their original spending plan underestimated contracted expenses like payroll taxes, retirement contributions, and overtime. With the addition of the omissions and other accounting adjustments, the base budget's corrected total is $426,732 more than initially calculated, according...
BRATTLEBORO-For many years, Brattleboro has celebrated May 1 - International Workers Day, in much of the world - with a rally on the Town Common. This year, organizers said that the annual May Day event will be part of a nationwide protest against they call the "increasingly destructive actions by the current Washington, D.C. administration." It will begin with a rally on the lawn of Centre Congregational Church at 5 p.m., followed by a march through downtown that will end...
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...
