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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-U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard Kipling drank lager in its basement bar and played poker in its penthouse suite from 1892 to 1896. Broadcaster Lowell Thomas presented his NBC radio newscast live from its ballroom in 1946. And if current owners have their way, someone new will buy this town's cornerstone Brooks House and soon make their own history. The five-story Main Street landmark - built in 1871, ravaged by...
BELLOWS FALLS-Longtime area educator Kate Kane has been named the new principal of Central Elementary School (CES). On April 11, the Rockingham School Board appointed her to the K–4 school on the recommendation of Superintendent Andy Haas, effective July 1. Kane grew up in Cambridgeport, graduating from Bellows Falls Union High School in 1984. She was an English and classics major at Tufts University and got her teaching certificate when she decided that she was interested in a career in...
BELLOWS FALLS-Unlike several of her Republican colleagues who have faced some very vocal voter outrage at town halls around the country, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., was greeted by cheers and a lengthy standing ovation from the crowd at a packed-to-the-walls Bellows Falls Opera House on Monday evening. In her invitation to the meeting, Balint pledged her commitment to "standing against policies that undermine our democracy, attack our rights, raise prices and prop up billionaires at the expense of working...
BRATTLEBORO-"Our culture has a way to go in talking about death," said Shari May, the advance care planning coordinator at Brattleboro Area Hospice (BAH). Death and end-of-life care remain subjects that many don't want to talk about. BAH's Advance Care Planning program has done a lot to get people thinking about how they can take the burden off the shoulders of their family and friends and have control over what kind of death they would like to have. The program...
BRATTLEBORO-Jay Symonds has taken on the job of Brattleboro Fire Department chief after being sworn in April 1. "I know we're facing some challenges, but its my intent to be part of the solution to these challenges," the new chief said by phone on Monday, his first day on the ground. The former lieutenant of the Manlius Fire Department in upstate New York said he found out about the job through Town Clerk Hilary Francis, his sister-in-law, but he has...
BRATTLEBORO-During their April 1 meeting, Selectboard members heard passionate appeals from the public regarding downtown crime and public safety issues, which accounted for more than $675,000 in unbudgeted expenses in the last fiscal year. "Excuse my French, but people are shitting on my basement floor and breaking into our building," said Daniel Systo of Brattleboro. "I've found hypodermic needles, fentanyl, and heroin. I've cleaned up multiple times out back on Arch Street," he told Selectboard members. Expressing urgency for quick...
BRATTLEBORO-What happens when you work in social services for 30 years, then retire and start your own social services agency, only to be met by the Trump Administration's attempt to cut Social Security off at the knees? Just ask Brattleboro's Leo Schiff. Schiff, 64, a licensed clinical social worker and drug and alcohol counselor, holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Vermont. He worked for the former Morningside Shelter (which became part of Groundworks Collaborative) for...
The small state of Vermont has, believe it or not, 187 libraries. "From my perspective, libraries are as American as apple pie," Catherine Delneo, the Vermont state librarian and commissioner of libraries, told The Commons. She described the state's libraries as "a vital piece of our of our community, because they're providing access to information and free access to information and free speech and the right to use the library and do research and to read" - all "really fundamental...
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...
