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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-Lindsay Bellville has been appointed interim director of Brooks Memorial Library while the search for a permanent library director continues. Bellville started her new position June 29. “It’s a new challenge, which I’m looking forward to,” says Bellville, who has been with the library for 22 years. “We have a lot going on with summer reading and our construction project.” Asked if she plans to apply for the directorship, Bellville says she’s undecided. “I’ve been in the children’s room a...
WEST DUMMERSTON-In summer, the West River swimming hole under the Dummerston Covered Bridge is so popular that on Sunday, members of the Dummerston Historical Society had to get there at 10 a.m. to protect some parking spaces for their big noon reveal. At noon, with approximately 16 Dummerstonians (and 30 bikers) in attendance, the historical society unveiled a new permanent plaque celebrating master carpenter and bridge builder Caleb B. Lamson, who in 1872 built the Dummerston Covered Bridge, the longest...
BRATTLEBORO-Hundreds of well-wishers got to see what $10 million can buy when they came out on June 24 for the grand opening of Brattleboro’s new Amtrak station on Depot Street. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott led a group of state and federal dignitaries for the ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the culmination of a two-year construction project of what David Handera, Amtrak’s chief accessibility officer, called “a better, more accessible, and more inviting station for Amtrak travelers.” “No more boarding off of an...
BRATTLEBORO-For America’s 250th birthday, Brattleboro’s annual Fourth of July parade was its customary mashup of community pride, lots of trucks, and political protest. Owing to the hot and humid morning, the Brattleboro American Legion Band rode down Main Street, and the Brattleboro Union High School band opted for shorts and T-shirts rather than their uniforms. There weren’t as many firetrucks from neighboring fire departments this year, but Brattleboro Public Works had most of its equipment in the parade, including its...
DUMMERSTON-Charles Fish — “Chuck” to his many friends — is celebrating his 90th birthday with “Chronicles of Vermont Life: Farm, Rivers and Fairs,” a photo exhibition at the Dummerston Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum. The opening, which also features an author talk, will take place Thursday, July 16, at 7 p.m. The exhibition will present more than 100 photographs taken by Fish, of Dummerston Center, who organized them around the three topics in the title. “Always having had a sincere interest...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s decision by its board of trustees to close the hospital’s birthing center within six to nine months has prompted a groundswell of support for saving a service that proponents say is essential for maternal health and safety and building and sustaining a community. Within three days of the July 1 email to staff announcing the decision, hundreds of employees and community members marched in the Brattleboro Goes Fourth Independence Day parade to mourn the potential loss and...
VERNON-After 40 years in operation, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon shuttered in 2014, leaving over 100,000 tons of nuclear waste. More than a decade later, the developer that holds the lease, PowerTransitions, is in the midst of envisioning the site’s future. Now, the local community and state are mulling the potential energy, environmental, and economic impacts of the site redevelopment, which could include a data center. After purchasing the 140-acre property, NorthStar, which specializes in facility remediation,
BRATTLEBORO-A clown is someone who pretends they have just been born, says Brattleboro’s Peter Gould. And he should know. He’s been a professional clown for decades. “A clown is a person who just finds everything interesting because their premise is that they don’t know anything about anything,” Gould explained. “This world is all new to them. And we, the performers, have trained in ways to get the audience, if they want to, or even in spite of themselves, involved in...
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...
