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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.
After a summer afternoon's torrential downpour, Lisa Marie makes her way gingerly down a slick, muddy trail, through a forested area on the outskirts of town. The trail leads to a temporary shelter: a big blue tarp anchored to four trees and nailed into the ground. A folding camp chair, a bike, and a quilted cloth sleeping bag, laid out to dry on a log, are the only possessions in sight. Down the hill, three blue tents are pitched among...
Newfane • Newbrook Fire Department, 698 Route 30, Newfane Jamaica • Jamaica Masonic Lodge, 110 VT-30, Jamaica Londonderry • Londonderry Flood Brook School, 91 VT-11, Londonderry • Londonderry Town Hall, 100 Old School Road, Londonderry • South Londonderry Baptist Church, 62 Crescent St., Londonderry -VtDigger...
In the parking lot outside her store Tuesday, Beverly Jelley was taking inventory. Holding a yellow legal notebook, she kept a list of food items - some waterlogged - that volunteers were taking from her store and bringing outside. After the food was accounted for, it was thrown into a dumpster. Jelley's is a neighborhood staple, a deli and liquor store that also serves as a de facto community meeting place, according to town resident Salina Cobb. Jelley herself is...
Heavy rain fell on Vermont on July 9 and 10 in amounts not seen since Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Mountain towns such as Weston and Londonderry took the brunt of a slow-moving series of showers and thunderstorms that delivered up to 6 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. Access to both towns was cut off after flash flooding washed out roads and led to the need for several rescues to be made by water-borne emergency responders. All...
Janice Martin, 96, remembers being awarded a scholarship to Green Mountain Camp for Girls - a place that, even though it was just 6 miles from her childhood home on Canoe Brook Road, “felt very far away.” “I was a country bumpkin, with very little socialization in 1938, when I was 12 years old,” says Martin, now a resident of Brattleboro. As GMC celebrates its 106th anniversary this summer, it remains the longest-continuously-run camp in Vermont, and one of a...
A few years back, a member of the Dummerston Historical Society sought out lifelong resident Don Hazelton to answer a question, one about town history, that members of the group had long wanted answered. Hazelton, now 93 years old, stood before them, thoughtfully pulling his hand down his beard as he considered the question. A few moments passed. “That's a good question,” he said quietly, and he thought a few seconds more before suggesting, “I think that's a question for...
The Vermont Sampler Initiative (VSI), a statewide effort to locate, photograph, and document all American samplers and related embroideries held in Vermont public and private collections, is coming to town. Needlework samplers - pieces of loosely woven fabric stitched with letters, numbers, aphorisms and images - were used to “showcase embroidery stitches, patterns, and techniques, often as a way for women to learn and practice their skills,” according to the Vermont Historical Society. VSI is a branch of the nationwide...
High schoolers at the Governor's Institute on Global Issues & Youth Action, cell phones in hand, pointed to U.S. Rep. Becca Balint as the political pioneer trumpeted by the Teen Vogue headline on their screens as “Vermont's first woman and LGBTQ+ federal representative.” But the subject herself knows the less-reported flip side. “It's not just the stories that people tell about us, it's the stories that we tell about ourselves,” the 55-year-old shared with students at the start of the...
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...
