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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.
-In the biggest race in Vermont's Aug. 11 party primaries, Amanda Janoo defeated Aly Richards to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Unofficial statewide results at midnight on Tuesday, with 97% of towns reporting, had Janoo with 37,331 votes and Richards with 35,585 votes, a margin of just over 2%. There were 3,304 write-in votes. Janoo defeated Richards by a 16% margin in Windham County. An economist and political newcomer from Burlington, Janoo carried Athens (25-18), Brattleboro (1,240-818), Brookline (43-32), Dummerston...
BRATTLEBORO-On a blistering hot Tuesday afternoon recently, the denizens of Brattleboro’s streets found a welcome at one of the town’s lesser-known eateries. On Flat Street, in the meager shade of the Brattleboro Transportation Center’s parking garage, two people, Fiver and Less, had set up their weekly mission to the streets — a free-food table and, beside it, an array of free clothing and even camping paraphernalia for those in need to take from. For two hours, the giveaways drew a...
BRATTLEBORO-After nearly two hours of conversation with top leadership of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) at a July 28 meeting, the Selectboard declined to call a Special Town Meeting to ask residents to help the hospital continue to fund its Birthing Center. Board members concluded at the special meeting that it would be premature to put the question to taxpayers, and they now await more news from the hospital in September. The Birthing Center is the maternity and birth services unit...
BRATTLEBORO-It’s the end of a meaningful retail era in the tri-state area. What wars, recessions, and the internet couldn’t do, the lack of a fourth generation of the business has been the final blow. Brad Borofsky is completely closing down Sam’s Outdoor Outfitters. The chain’s flagship store, the sprawling 92-year-old Brattleboro store on Main Street — “The Biggest Little Store in the World” — has been a mostly dark and empty space since it closed in April 2024. But the...
BRATTLEBORO-Representatives from nine towns will convene the first meeting of the Law Enforcement Governance Council Friday, Aug. 7. The regional policing pilot required at least five towns to join the council before it could move into its next phase. Municipal council members — Athens, Grafton, Guilford, Jamaica, Londonderry, Marlboro, Newfane, Putney, and Vernon — will define the program’s scope of service, administration, budget, and legislative reporting for how the Windham County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) provides policing in Windham County. “This...
ST. ALBANS-Kiah Coble was talking on the phone with a parent at NewBrook Elementary School in Newfane, where she worked as a school counselor, when her left hand suddenly cramped. “It was very odd,” Coble says. “It was like all of a sudden being plunged into ice water." It happened again. And again. Her hand grew weaker. What followed was a nearly two-year odyssey through primary care doctors, physical therapists, a nerve specialist, an unsuccessful wrist and elbow surgery, and...
BRATTLEBORO-As town leaders weigh a proposed municipal tax hike to help the fiscally ailing Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, BMH administrators estimate their multiyear budget deficit has risen to at least $30 million. The hospital has yet to submit a spending plan to the state for the coming fiscal year, having missed a July 1 filing deadline and July 24 extension. But its administrators are reporting shortfalls of $16 million for the last fiscal year — four times their initial estimate, or...
BELLOWS FALLS-It has been nearly 15 years since the idea first started taking shape, and finally, this fall, the Great River Food Co-op will find out if construction can begin at the site of the former Robertson Paper Mill. The co-op describes itself as a “start-up cooperative dedicated to enhancing food safety and security by creating a local food ecosystem that directly connects local farmers and producers with consumers” in both Vermont and New Hampshire along the lower Connecticut River...
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...
