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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-Amid a crescendo of complaints about drug dealing and related illegal acts, local leaders are seeking to add more police staff and space to fight a community-wide rise in crime. The Brattleboro Selectboard, facing a standing-room-only crowd, voted unanimously on Aug. 20 to explore cost estimates for boosting its budgeted count of police officers from 27 to 30 and open a satellite station at downtown's problem-plagued Transportation Center parking garage. "We want to be empathetic," Police Chief Norma Hardy said...
ROCKINGHAM-The Planning Commission has released a draft of the latest Town Plan, an update that has been in the works since 2016, and the public will weigh in on the document at a public hearing on Thursday, Sept. 3. The Selectboard will hold the public hearing at the Town Hall at 6 p.m. as well as via Zoom. "This event is a key opportunity for community members to share their input and perspectives on the future development of our town,"
DUMMERSTON-Eleanor Emery will turn 97 years old in October - a fact that she conveys with some pride. "Who knew?" Emery asks, throwing her head back and laughing. Born at the family home in West Guilford in 1927, Emery remains as sharp as a tack. This time of year often stirs two memories. The first is of the one-room District No. 1 schoolhouse, where Emery was a student from 1933 to 1941. "My school years were during the Great Depression.
BRATTLEBORO-In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene changed the landscape of Vermont, including turning a house lot at 805 Western Ave. into a flooded, vacant, unbuildable space bordering Whetstone Brook. Now, Edible Brattleboro is changing that piece of the landscape yet again, partnering with the town to create a public "food forest" there. The organization, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025, is a community nonprofit with the overall mission of "growing food - everywhere, for everyone." Edible Brattleboro has established...
BRATTLEBORO-Talk to longtime locals who've witnessed a rising number of Main Street closures and crimes and they'll tell you the community they remember is cracking. Mary Lacy and Corrine Yonce, armed with cement and creative eyes, instead see things as the start of a potentially surprising metamorphosis. The 33-year-old Vermont artists, commissioned to create a wall-size mosaic in downtown's Pliny Park, recently asked residents to donate ceramic household scraps, be they chipped plates or scratched tiles. Children added outgrown marbles...
BRATTLEBORO-New housing development in the pipeline could result in an additional 400 homes in town in the next five years if all the projects come to fruition. The individual projects, in various stages of development from conceptual planning to putting together funding, address the area's urgent need for workforce housing, affordable housing, and refugee housing. In 2021, Brattleboro's Housing Action Plan reported "a pressing need for more than 500 [housing] units." While none of the projects in the works are...
WESTMINSTER-Work to replace the roof over the gym at this summer at Bellows Falls Union High School, among some $9 million in projects underway, has suddenly stalled. The project "is on hold because the PCB-laden roof decking itself has to come off," WNESU board member David Clark wrote to The Commons. Clark said the project would cost an estimated additional $500,000 to $1 million, "with no current funding stream." BFUHS Board Chair Rob Weltz said the board is working on...
BELLOWS FALLS-Teachers in the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union have a new three-year contract, retroactive to July 1. The settlement was reached on July 24, and the Windham Northeast Education Association (WNEA) membership voted to ratify the agreement on July 29. The new contract was signed just prior to WNESU schools opening on Wednesday, Aug. 28. The district's school boards ratified it at separate meetings, with the final meeting held on Aug. 14 when the WNESU Negotiations Committee signed the new...
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...
