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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.
PUTNEY-Ars longa, vita brevis. One translation of the Latin phrase is that craft takes a long time to learn, yet life is brief. In other words, mastery requires many hours; one lifetime is not long enough. Some people come close, though, and Adam Wetzel, who died in June at age 86, was one of them. His carved birds show he was a master carver. Two of his bird carvings have been accepted into the permanent collection of Birds of Vermont...
BRATTLEBORO-Albert Mikuski, now 88 years old, recalls an extraordinary story of how he and his brother, James, in two branches of military service, connected for Christmas across the countryside in France in 1959, at the height of the Cold War. "Think about it," said Mikuski. "How many men or women in that era had the opportunity to spend Christmas together over 3,000 miles from home? Two small-town boys, both in the service, seeing one another in France." He shook his...
BRATTLEBORO-Kimberly Frost, the town's finance director since 2022, will be stepping down on Jan. 3. The announcement was made on brattleboro.gov on Dec. 10. According to a news release, Frost is leaving "to pursue a different opportunity." "Starting this next chapter was a difficult decision, but I'm grateful to have served my community," said Frost. According to the news release, Frost "was instrumental in reuniting the Finance Department with the Treasurer's Office and thereby finding efficiencies to reduce town staff...
BRATTLEBORO-As usual, The Commons will not publish an edition for the last week of the year. The next issue of the newspaper will be published Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Dec. 27. Because of the New Year's Day holiday, newspaper distribution will extend into Thursday, Jan. 2. All of us at Vermont Independent Media wish our readers warm holiday greetings, a safe end of the year, and best wishes for strength, prosperity, and resilience...
BRATTLEBORO-Petitions for town officers, Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board members, and Representative Town Meeting members for the 2025 election are now available at the town clerk's office. • Town elections will take place Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at American Legion Post 5, 32 Linden St. • Annual Representative Town Meeting will begin on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at 8:30 a.m. in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium. • The WSESD Annual Meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 18.
BRATTLEBORO-Assistant Town Manager Patrick Moreland admits there have been a few glitches as the system comes online. "We have had a few stumbles with rolling out the new system," he told The Commons on Dec. 2. Among the glitches: "A card reader in the Harmony Lot failed and needed an immediate replacement. That has been resolved. We believed that receipt paper would be included with new machines. On this, we were mistaken. Receipt paper has now been installed." One of...
BRATTLEBORO-When the first train steamed into town in 1849, a regional newspaper reported how "exhilaration of the moment burst forth" as residents celebrated the arrival of an easy route to seemingly everywhere in the world. Everywhere except neighboring New Hampshire, that is. The new rails ran beside the Connecticut River and a wooden covered bridge that carried horse-drawn buggies across to the Granite State, local historians recount. Transportation morphed into a steel span, and automobiles with the start of the...
BELLOWS FALLS-Meetings over the past several weeks to discuss the idea of merging the Bellows Falls Fire Department (BFFD), the Rockingham Volunteer Fire Department (RVFD), and the Saxtons River Volunteer Fire Department (SRVFD) have been both informative, and at times, confrontational. Merging the three independent fire departments into a more cohesive single unit has been discussed and debated in Rockingham for decades, with no less controversy. Voters will decide this latest proposal at the next Annual Town Meeting, which 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...
