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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.
Barry Stockwell remembers his father, Raymond Stockwell, returning from work in the Putney Paper Mill in the 1960s. Each day, Raymond, a supervisor in charge of maintenance, would "grab a little whisk broom he kept on the top of the refrigerator and whisk the paper off the top of his hat. Then he'd sit down in a kitchen chair to unwind and tell us about his day," he reminisced. Until its current owner, Soundview Vermont, closed the paper mill at...
The Commons is grateful to the people experiencing homelessness who have shared their stories with the newspaper over the past six months. Following are excerpts from these interviews. Names have been changed to protect their privacy. 'It's not fun being homeless'Joe is 70 years old and stays at the Quality Inn in Brattleboro. He had been paying for a room at the West Village Motel in West Brattleboro for 5{1/2} years but had to leave when the building was sold.
A paper mill has operated next to Sacketts Brook in downtown Putney for more than 150 years - a tradition that has come to an abrupt end on Jan. 16 with the sudden closure of Putney Paper Mill by its current owner, New Jersey–based Soundview Vermont Holdings LLC. According to the Vermont Department of Labor, 127 employees are affected. Workers expecting to report for duty on Tuesday were notified of the closure when they were directed to stay home. Some...
Town officials are inviting creative community members to design six new outdoor benches where community members can literally take a seat. "Newfane is interested in finding ways to encourage our residents and neighbors to enjoy our beautiful town and have new places to be together," says Selectboard member Jeff Chevalier. "I had the idea to put this competition together after the pandemic, when I realized how much I missed opportunities to see my neighbors casually and I wanted to have...
Concerned that poor Town Meeting attendance is not good for a direct democracy, an informal group of citizens is trying to figure out how to get more people to attend. Only 3% of the town's 3,819 registered voters attended the Annual Town Meeting in 2023. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Rockingham and its villages have a population of 4,832. At the 2023 meeting, town officials agreed to study what might be the causes of such low voter turnout and...
Through no fault of her own, Rep. Becca Balint's second year in Congress is starting to look a lot like her first year in office: mad, chaotic, wasteful, cynical and insane. In the beginning, the Vermont Democrat idealistically went down to Washington ready to work on legislation to help solve her constituents' most pressing problems: housing, mental health, a broken health care system, equal rights, LGBTQIA rights, and then some. But with a slim Republican majority in the House of...
January is the month when Vermonters pore over the seed catalogs and dream wistfully about how their flower and vegetable gardens will grow in the coming year. And, for more than 60 years, one of the determining factors for which annuals and perennials will survive in Vermont is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The map assigns a zone number to an area, reflecting the average annual extreme low temperature in an area over a 10-year period.
Southern Vermont's Elnu Abenaki tribe may be the smallest in the state, but it has seen some important changes in recent years. Within the past year or so, the tribe has purchased a new Tribal Center at 350 Putney Rd., and has received grant money to research regional Native petroglyphs, especially those in Bellows Falls. At the same time, the four Vermont Abenaki bands - collectively known as the Western Abenaki tribes - have also had to face a challenge...
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...
