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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-Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark will meet with Vermonters at the Rockingham Free Public Library on Thursday, June 25, starting at noon. Clark will be hosted by two candidates running for Windham-3 state representative seats, incumbent Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun, from Westminster, and first-time candidate Chris Lundberg, from Bellows Falls. Clark has joined attorneys general across the nation in challenging unconstitutional executive orders as well as other federal policies. She is eager “to protect the sovereign state of Vermont against...
WILLIAMSVILLE-Bernard (Bernie) Rosow, originally of Williamsville, didn’t choose a path to fame and fortune. The freeriding, freestyling skier, who died of cardiac arrest on April 23 while hiking up Bloody Mountain in Mammoth Lakes, California, preferred carving his own routes, building his own jumps, and holistically honing his own blend of Nordic and alpine skiing with ski jumping. The 45-year-old Rosow probably could have gone pro, but he chose his own route: He took on the grind of nighttime slope...
BRATTLEBORO-The entity once known as 69A Elliot St. — named for the storefront where it originally came into being — will continue down the street as the community resource it has become, under different leadership and corporate structure. “I want to thank everyone who has supported 69A and everyone who came in and utilized our community art center,” said 69A’s director, Lisa Marie, adding that she dissolved its corporate entity, 69A LLC, on June 1. “I did this with a...
BELLOWS FALLS-Four new candidates, two Republicans and two Democrats, are in the running for the two Windham-3 House seats in the Aug. 11 party primaries, as is one of the two incumbent state representatives. Democrats Leslie Goldman and Michelle Bos-Lun are the two representatives for Windham-3, and they have both served since 2021. Bos-Lun, from Westminster, is running again. Goldman will be moving to be closer to family in California and will not seek reelection. She said she will not...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), the publisher ofThe Commons and The Deerfield Valley News, Brattleboro Community Television (BCTV), and WVEW-LP will collectively welcome Democracy Now! founder and host Amy Goodman to a fundraiser reception Friday, June 19, at 5 p.m. at Sages (6 Flat St.). Goodman has been touring the country to support Steal This Story, Please!, a documentary film that chronicles her life and career as an independent journalist. While traveling, she actively attends fundraising events to champion independent media...
BRATTLEBORO-After less than a month on the job, Brooks Memorial Library Director Julie Perrin has resigned. "It is clear to me that Brooks is not a good match for me," Perrin wrote in her May 28 resignation letter to Town Manager John Potter. She did not offer any other details about her decision, but did write that she had already worked the required hours that week and submitted her timesheet. She said that her resignation was immediate. "Considering the brevity...
BRATTLEBORO-Molly Gray wants her old job back. Gray, 42, a Democrat from Newbury, is running for lieutenant governor, a job she held from 2021 to 2023. She came through Brattleboro on May 21 to visit Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, the agricultural community at the Retreat Farm, patrons at The Works on Main Street, and do a video webcast. She also found time for a sit-down interview with The Commons. In 2022, while in her first and only...
BRATTLEBORO-After more than five decades of passengers being relegated to the old baggage area of the former Union Station, now the home of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Amtrak will soon have a new stand-alone station right across the tracks. Amtrak officials and local, regional, and federal leaders will preside over a ceremonial grand opening of the new station on Depot Street on Wednesday, June 24, starting at 11 a.m. Vermont’s first level-boarding station will offer a 345-foot-long concrete...
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...
