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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.
WESTMINSTER-Third-generation Westminster farmer Paul Harlow was recently recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted into the Vermont Agricultural Hall of Fame. He joins more than 100 inductees who have been honored over the past 20 years by the award, administered by the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction. “I think this is a culmination,” Harlow, 75, said of the honor. “It’s acknowledging the work of the last 60 years.” Harlow Farm on Route 5 goes back 109 years to...
Rural health care, already struggling, took another hit last week when Dartmouth Health, facing a budget deficit of $63.5 million, announced it will be closing two telehealth services that provide live video medical advice to five rural Vermont hospitals, including Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) and Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend. The cost of the Tele-ED and Tele-ICU services, “at our current scale, without external support, are simply unsustainable,” Audra Burns, a spokesperson for Dartmouth, the New Hampshire-based health network, told...
WILMINGTON-For generations, Adams Farm has changed with the times. It has been a dairy farm, a sleigh ride destination, a petting farm, and most recently, a collection of short-term rentals. Now, seventh-generation family member Olivia Adams Mancivalano is preparing to bring the farm back to life. Mancivalano plans to reopen Adams Family Farm, on Higley Hill Road, over Labor Day weekend, bringing back some of the traditions longtime visitors remember, while introducing new ideas of her own. The farm, which...
BRATTLEBORO-The newly formed Windham County Law Enforcement Governance Council convened for its inaugural meeting Aug. 7, ready to tackle how the Windham County Sheriff’s Office should provide collective policing for rural towns that lack their own police departments. Selectboards from the initial nine participating towns opted into the pilot program. At the hybrid in-person and online meeting, members elected leadership, discussed their towns’ needs and expectations, and set initial goals. Towns in Vermont provide law enforcement by relying on the...
BRATTLEBORO-State regulators expressed both concern and support as acting administrators at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital outlined plans at a Aug. 14 online hearing to curb deficit spending caused by past administrative and accounting problems. “I do think the Brattleboro community is suffering the consequences of mismanagement at this hospital,” Sara Teachout, one of five members of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB), told the facility’s new leaders. “I appreciate what you all are doing to change that.” BMH, now operating on...
BRATTLEBORO-In the past couple of years, when the state was offering developers about $130 million in low-interest housing construction loans, you’d have thought there would’ve been a line. But while the money was invested in 12 of Vermont’s 14 counties, in Windham County only one developer in Brattleboro and one in Putney took advantage of the opportunity. “There could be an applicant that we received from Windham County that we didn’t fund, but I’m pretty sure we funded those that...
GUILFORD-Walking onto the Guilford Fairgrounds on Labor Day weekend feels a lot like it must have in the 1940s. The cow competition, the horse pull, the blue-ribbon pies, the barbecue stand, and the bingo pavilion are just as generations of Guilford children remember things. Growing up, David Franklin, president of the nonprofit Guilford Fair Association, which orchestrates the event, recalls spending the last weekend of every summer at the fair, where he’d spend the $10 he’d saved working at the...
BRATTLEBORO-The town has named SerahRose Bissell as its new finance director, filling a position that has been vacant since the start of 2025. Bissell brings extensive experience in financial management, accounting, and organizational operations through her work as founder of Aerialist Accounting, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm that supports nonprofits of all sizes. She holds a master’s degree in accounting and has “spent her career helping organizations build sustainable accounting practices and strengthen internal processes to ensure compliance,” as described in...
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...
