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Keeping your community covered. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
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.
TOWNSHEND-When the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) released a report on Sept. 18 that listed Grace Cottage Hospital (GCH) as one of four hospitals financially "at-risk" and in need of "major restructuring," it came as a surprise to Chief Executive Officer Olivia Sweetnam. Sweetnam, who took over the leadership of Grace Cottage on July 1, said she had spoken with Bruce Hamory, a physician and partner with consultancy Oliver Wyman, which prepared a report for the GMCB that included recommendations...
BRATTLEBORO-Brian Robertshaw, owner of Beadniks at 117 Main St., had just gone downstairs - ironically, with a watering can, to get water to care for the plants inside his shop on the ground floor - when he heard an unfamiliar high-pitched hiss. "At first, I thought it might have been a broken water pipe because it's an old building and pipes have burst before," said Robertshaw as he recounted the Sept. 23 fire that displaced tenants and turned his business...
-Twenty years ago, Daryl Pillsbury and I wanted to do something to help people struggling to pay home heating bills. The price of fuel was high and we figured that, in a short time, the situation would get better and we could suspend our operations. We had no idea what we were getting into when we started the Windham County Heat Fund. Over the years, we have learned that the price of heating fuel has only a little to do...
DUMMERSTON-The controversy over political banners hung inside library windows of the Dummerston School has prompted multi-meeting discussions by the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board, but any next step is currently on pause. Board member Eva Nolan said she noticed the banners, one each for presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, on Sept. 5 as she drove by the school. She then called WSESD Board Chair Deborah Stanford about her "concern for BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and people of color]
LONDONDERRY-Vermont has a housing crisis - the state needs up to 36,000 new homes by 2030 to meet demand - and the quintessential single-family house on a large lot on a country road will not be the solution. "It's certainly not the future that local Vermonters can afford," said Chris Campany, executive director of the Windham Regional Commission (WRC). Instead, multifamily housing will become the standard. "Without a collapse in land prices or building prices that creates a massive housing...
BELLOWS FALLS-The Bellows Falls Community Bike Project, active in the village for 11 years, has raised enough money to be able to buy its current location at 30 Henry St., on the corner of Atkinson Street. Project founder and director Bonnie Anderson hopes the nonprofit will sign a sales agreement this fall. Funds raised by the end of August totaled $80,454 which, along with $9,450 worth of donated professional services, means the group can buy the building without needing a...
BRATTLEBORO-As described by Adam Grinold, a decade ago, Windham County had the second-oldest population in the state, people were leaving the area in high numbers, and wages languished below those of our neighbors. The executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation says that the county has turned a corner in the intervening time and has experienced an uptick in population and employee wages. The regional economy has also undergone more visible change over the past year, with some stark...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 6, from 4 to 6:30 p.m., at the Retreat Farm's North Barn to honor and thank the community that has been integral to its success. VIM was founded in 2004 by citizens who wanted to create a mission-driven organization to understand and educate people in creating their own media - news media in particular - and, eventually, to publish a community newspaper that would...
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...
