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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.
BELLOWS FALLS-Local artist Tim Wells, who creates professionally as Tai Ericson, has a new show of his latest work — four intricate large portraits created in a painstaking collage technique and intended to carry a powerful message. These first four portraits were made, Wells said, “to honor murdered transgender people, as part of a larger series combatting transphobia and the real harm it causes.” The works, part of a planned series of 12, will be the first exhibit shown in...
BRATTLEBORO-In peaceful, quiet Brattleboro, you wouldn’t think you would need a bodyguard. But given the turmoil in Washington and the political hatred being freely spewed over the internet and in political television ads these days, the sad truth is that U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., needs one. Contemporary American political violence has a long and complicated story, but it is growing much uglier. It was building long before the Pennsylvania governor’s residence in Harrisburg suffered major damage during an overnight...
BRATTLEBORO-The Boys & Girls Club of Brattleboro’s new executive director says his top priority is the young people who come through its doors. Russell Poulin, a licensed social worker who has spent more than two decades in youth development, human services, and nonprofit leadership, has been hired to lead the Flat Street organization that serves children and teens ages 6 to 18. He started Oct. 1, replacing Lisa Ford, its interim executive director, who chairs the nonprofit’s board of directors.
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Housing officials, lenders, and lawmakers gathered Oct. 15 on a freshly dug construction site at 72 Swan Pond Lane to break ground on a $16.7 million apartment building, the first new housing in a multi-phase plan to transform the former Dalem’s Chalet property. Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and its co-developer, Evernorth, will build 31 affordable apartments on the 17-acre parcel. About half will be permanent supportive housing for people who have experienced homelessness, many of whom already...
-Several dozen people participated in a “No Kings: Vote Early” rally held in Bellows Falls on Oct. 17, with two groups marching through the village and connecting with a larger group in The Square. Many marchers brought their ballots with them and deposited them in an early voting collection box beside the Town Hall. A voter registration table was also available, as were cider, doughnuts and cookies. Rockingham Town Clerk Kathleen Kelly told event organizers Oct. 19 that 65 ballots...
BELLOWS FALLS-Area libraries in Vermont and New Hampshire, spearheaded by the Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL), are offering a free showing of an Emmy-Award winning documentary, The Librarians, at the Bellows Falls Opera House Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. RFPL Director Ian Graham said that the free screening is an “opportunity to have a full, civil discussion” on the topic of who should decide what others can or cannot read. Graham said he reached out to 10 other libraries...
BRATTLEBORO-U.S. Sen. Peter Welch provided the coffee and doughnuts, and the 50-or-so people in attendance provided the questions during an hour-long listening session on Oct. 5. The “Common Grounds” event at Brooks Memorial Library was part of a series of events that the state’s junior senator, a Democrat, has held around the state in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “What we’re seeing in Washington is a direct confrontation with values that we’ve had in Vermont,
WILMINGTON-Around 50 people gathered in Wilmington’s Memorial Hall on Sept. 30 to hear town clerks from Wilmington, Dover, and Whitingham describe the Vermont election rules and procedures designed to protect residents’ right to vote, amid fears the Trump administration might seek to exclude some voters from the polls in the upcoming midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Dover Free Library Director Allison Maynard moderated the nonpartisan meeting, “Know Your Voting Rights — A Community Information Session,” a discussion with Wilmington...
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...
