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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.
A resident of Morningside House shelter was held without bail after pleading not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in the gruesome April 3 death of the facility's coordinator, Leah Rosin-Pritchard. Zaaina Asra Zakirrah Mahvish-Jammeh, 38, was ordered Tuesday to receive a mental health evaluation. Prosecutors allege that she bought a hunting hatchet during the weekend and used it to take the life of Rosin-Pritchard, 36. “She is a danger to others and potentially to herself,” Judge Katherine Hayes said...
Vermont State Police are investigating a fatal March 30 shooting at on Birge Street. Tamico Williams, 21, of Hartford, Connecticut, died of gunshot wounds to the torso and the manner of death was a homicide, according to an autopsy completed on April 1 by the Vermont Chief Medical Examiner's Office in Burlington. According to Brattleboro Police, the department received a 911 call shortly before 8 p.m. reporting the sound of gunfire at a residence at 14 Birge St. Responding to...
Having more and more information available online is great, until the power goes out and you live in a place where cell phone service is spotty to nonexistent. Switching homes to heat pumps to reduce carbon emissions is also great, until the power goes out and you have no way to heat your home. These two points were highlighted by the March 13-15 snowstorm that blanketed parts of Windham County with as much as 3 feet of snow and left...
Alexander Leonard is 18 and a senior at Bellows Falls Union High School. On Feb. 10, he was recognized in a resolution passed by both the Vermont House and Senate for “his heroism and decisive action” for his response to a fire in his family home when he was just 17. His response to that fire was something Leonard had been training for. He recently finished a one-year trial period as a volunteer with the Rockingham Fire Department, at the...
A federal investigation found that the Twin Valley Unified Union School District failed to prevent a “hostile” school climate that included “targeted peer harassment” at Twin Valley Middle-High School, officials announced on March 16. In a settlement with the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Office, the district agreed to update its policies, improve training programs, and monitor the school's environment more closely, the agencies said. “Schools should feel safe for all children, but when harassment does happen, schools...
Fired Brattleboro Union High School Principal Steven Perrin has filed a civil lawsuit against the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU), the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD), and its board members. A March 21 filing names the two entities as well as board members at the time of Perrin's firing and his subsequent hearing to appeal that action. Those defendants are Anne Beckman, Lana Dever, Michelle Luetjen Green, Emily Murphy Kaur, Tim Maciel, Robin Morgan, Shaun Murphy, Deborah Stanford, and Kelly...
Representative Town Meeting (RTM) voters on March 25 approved a $20.5 million operating budget for fiscal year 2024 after increasing the bottom line by $350,000. Members were also clear in wanting more transparency and participation in how the town's remaining $2.7 million federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money is used as well as how town emergency medical services are contracted. The approved budget is about an 8.1% increase to this year's operating budget. Due to use of unassigned fund...
In municipal elections on March 7, ballot questions in support of just-cause eviction policy won in Winooski and Essex. Last year, voters in Burlington passed a measure there. But it lost in Brattleboro. Why? Just cause is a local ordinance to force a landlord to have a reason (a just cause) to evict a tenant who plays by the rules - i.e., pays their rent on time, doesn't break clauses in the lease (like no pets), doesn't sell drugs out...
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...
