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The path to Eagle Scout status, the highest rank in Boy Scouting, has been cleared for Evan Martin of Putney, by his helping design and build a new sign for Rescue Inc.'s headquarters.
Martin, who just turned 18 and just graduated from Brattleboro Union High School, is a member of Brattleboro Troop 405. He completed his Eagle project before his birthday as required.
Rescue Inc. provides emergency medical services to 14 communities in southern Vermont and New Hampshire. The squad helped Martin with the design of the project. The free-standing, fenced, and painted aluminum sign - 9 feet long and 3 feet high with vinyl blue-and-white lettering - now graces the property at 541 Canal St. in Brattleboro.
“It's beautiful,” said Linda Goss, Rescue's director of administration.
Coming soon to a West River Valley location is Anita's Body Shop, a women's exercise studio that has been several years in the making. Anita Bean, Townshend's town clerk for six years, said the machines are on the way, and that banking, computer systems and music are being worked...
If there could be anything warmer and more encouraging than 15-year-old Emma Davis as she is, it's got to be Emma Davis with three Olympic medals - two gold, one silver - around her neck. Emma won the honors at Special Olympics Vermont on June 4 and 5 in...
If local, organic, grass-fed, humanely-raised meat seems like it costs more, it does, but there are ways to compensate: use less expensive cuts and smaller portions, say the meat guys at North End Butchers. Kevin Hildreth, 36, and Chris Barry, 55, longtime former chefs, opened their very high-end meat, poultry, charcuterie, wine, cheese, bread, etc. shop about a year ago in Black Mountain Square, a little south of the Putney Road rotary. Since then, they have expanded their services to...
Apparent enthusiasm, good food and better-than-ever produce plus some brilliant Chinese food made by two Chinese sisters,opened the third season of the Thursday Townshend Farmer's Market last week. The market, which will be held Thursdays on the Common from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., featured 15 booths offering wares like heady bunches of bright green cilantro grown by Cory Walker of Guerilla Grown Produce in Westminster, sturdy heirloom tomatoes grown in the almost black dirt of Kindle Farm School in Newfane...
What goes on behind the doors of Windham County Superior Court, the imposing 1825 Greek Revival structure on the Newfane green? The Vermont judiciary website describes the state's Superior Courts as “trial courts where civil matters such as breach of contract, eviction, foreclosure, personal injury, land disputes, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases are heard.” Appeals from the Probate Court are also heard in Superior Court. During two cases observed over five days of observation in April, juries heard charges...
One thing is certain: Windham County legislator Peter Shumlin, president pro tem of the Vermont Senate and one of five Democrats running for governor in November, believes in Vermont exceptionalism. The crises that confront the nation every day, that litany of challenges rolled out in and on the news - jobs, health care, education inequities, agriculture subsidies, political and finance shenanigans, deregulation - may be shadowed in Vermont life, but Vermont is uniquely poised to face them, he believes. “We...
The two-day Labor Day weekend Guilford Fair opens Sunday, Sept. 6, and runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Guilford Fairgrounds, off Weatherhead Hollow Road. Festivities continue on Monday during the same hours. “It's a small country fair,” said David Franklin, president of the fair board, who listed enough country fair events, competitions, demonstrations, performances, eating opportunities, livestock in attendance, horse show judging, dog agility demonstrations, craft and handiwork exhibits and vegetable displays to entertain even the most...
