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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.
SPRINGFIELD-A trio of local history experts, working with historical records, personal exploration and, eventually, with archaeology staff and students from Dartmouth College, believe that they may have solved a regional history mystery. That mystery? The exact location of a blockhouse built in 1760 in the first few miles of New Hampshire’s historic Crown Point Road (CPR), near where it crossed the Connecticut River by ferry into Vermont. Local historian Lonnie Lisai, of Westminster, along with fellow historians Annette Spaulding, of...
BRATTLEBORO-Driving to work on the bluebird morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I turned on the car radio to hear that hijacked planes had struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, set the Pentagon afire outside Washington, D.C., and slammed into a seemingly random field in rural Pennsylvania. My first response: What kind of shock jock is trying to re-create the 1938 Martian-invasion broadcast drama “The War of the Worlds”? A quarter-century later, I’m one of...
-The Whetstone Brook runs quietly most days, sliding under the Route 9 bridges and past the backyards of West Brattleboro on its way to the Connecticut River. It’s easy, on an ordinary afternoon, to forget what this water is capable of. Fifteen years ago this week, nobody in Brattleboro had that luxury. On Aug. 28, 2011, the remnants of the hurricane that officially became Tropical Storm Irene stalled over Vermont and dropped as much as 11 inches of rain in...
BRATTLEBORO-To mark the 50th anniversary of an assassination by car bombing carried out in Washington, D.C., by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, the program director ofthe Institute for Policy Studies (IPS),will speak in Brattleboro about U.S. policy in Chile and how a U.S.-backed coup there three years earlier led to the political violence on American soil. Until the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, that car bombing was, in the words of the event...
BRATTLEBORO-Marble Ace Arvidson was 17, a senior-to-be at Brattleboro Union High School, when he left a note on his bedroom door at his foster home at 503 Marlboro Rd. — the red house beside the Chelsea Royal Diner — on the afternoon of Aug. 27, 2011, the day before Irene hit. One roommate had seen him that afternoon. Another heard a knock, then heard Marble talking at the door with a man whose voice he didn’t recognize, in an exchange...
BRATTLEBORO-The new executive director of the Brattleboro Music Center, clarinetist Jessica Calandra, is already deeply immersing herself in the richness of Brattleboro’s music scene. Calandra, along with her husband, Peter Doyle, a chartering broker in the international shipping business, moved here from Tampa, Florida, to take the helm of the BMC from Mary Greene, who retired Aug. 1 after 12 years. Greene will remain involved with BMC’s special projects. The BMC was founded in 1952 by violinist and choral director...
WILMINGTON-The story “Breathing new life into a seven-generation family farm” [News, Aug. 19] appeared with the wrong byline. It was written by Jackie Spinnell of The Deerfield Valley News. This News item was submitted to The Commons.
BRATTLEBORO-Fire Chief Jay Symonds will spend the next year on active duty with the Army National Guard, which has been a significant part of his life for nearly three decades. Symonds will leave his town obligation for military service the first week of October and return when his assignment has been fulfilled. “Public service has been a cornerstone of my life, and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue serving both my community and my country,” the chief tells...
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...
