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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-Unofficial Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) March 4 election results say newcomer Jocelyn Fritts will take a seat at the table to represent Guilford instead of former Board Director Kelly Young, but a recount has been requested and is now being scheduled. Running for a first time, Fritts, who has relocated here from Florida, received just 28 votes more than Young in the unofficial count of 1,128 to 1,100. "I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the support...
BRATTLEBORO-As three newcomers prepare to take seats on the Selectboard, at least one outgoing incumbent isn't surprised. "Any incumbent was going to lose," said Franz Reichsman of the March 4 town election results. "You raise people's taxes like that, and there's going to be some blowback for sure." Adding, with some humor, "I didn't expect to win, but I didn't expect to be dead last," Reichsman went on to say, "this was an anti-incumbent, anti-Selectboard vote." Coming on board to...
PUTNEY-The town needs 80 new rental and owner-occupied homes over the next five years to meet the demand for new housing and to replace its aging housing stock, according to the recently released Putney Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan. "The lack of new and available housing means that young families can't move into town, which leads to an older population shouldering the tax burden," stated Robert O'Brien, senior housing specialist for Camoin Associates, the Virginia-based consulting firm that produced...
BELLOWS FALLS-A recount of ballots for the Rockingham School District three-year seat added one more vote for each of the candidates, but the results remained: Write-in candidate Christopher Kibbe beat Priscilla Lambert by three votes. A committee of seven citizens performed the recount March 10 in the Rockingham Town Hall under the watchful eye of Town Clerk Kathleen Kelly. Dennis Harty was elected to chair the group, and the recount took about 90 minutes as Lambert and Kibbe looked on.
BRATTLEBORO-The Legislature is in the middle of a fraught and unusual session, with the midpoint approaching in the form of "crossover day" on Friday, March 14 - the day when bills that start in the House pass to the Senate, and vice versa. Lawmakers are deep into committee and caucus work, all the while dealing with a newly empowered governor and the unease that comes from not knowing what will be coming down the pike from Washington, D.C. "We are...
TOWNSHEND-Before the Feb. 25 girls' basketball game between Leland & Gray and Bellows Falls, a special ceremony honored members of the undefeated Leland & Gray girls' basketball teams from 1952 and 1955. Leland & Gray Athletic Director Tammy Claussen called forward to center court the four former players - Mary Cutts Mewes and Mary Robinson Laitres, who were both members of the 1952 team, and Marty Gould Morrison and Marilyn Bills Chapin, who were on the 1955 team - where...
BRATTLEBORO-After 14 years as assistant town manager, Patrick Moreland is stepping down to become the executive director of DVFiber, the nonprofit fiber-optic Internet provider serving southeastern Vermont. Moreland has been assistant town manager since 2011, serving with Barbara Sondag, then–town manager. Her tenure was followed by those of Peter Elwell, Yoshi Manale, and current Town Manager John Potter. Moreland did stints as interim town manager twice: for six months in 2022 and for a 19-month "opportunity," as he calls it,
WESTMINSTER-It's not a generally known fact of history unless you happen to be from southeastern Vermont, but a strong case can be made that the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War did not take place at Lexington or Concord in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. That first armed conflict was the Westminster Massacre, a historic milestone whose 250th anniversary will be marked by multiple events in town from Thursday, March 13, to Saturday, March 15. Just three months after...
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...
