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Chris Pratt knows how hard it can be for students with learning disabilities.
“I'm someone who grew up with a learning disability - a learning difference,” said Pratt, Windham Southwest Supervisory Union superintendent. “So it's important to me not just personally but professionally that we try to find opportunities for these kids who have not seen a lot of successes in their lives - to get that spark in the college environment.”...
There will be yet another chapter in the long-running saga of Vernon and Act 46. A new vote has been scheduled for Feb. 21 in Dummerston to determine whether Vernon can leave a regional school union due to concerns about the state's education governance law. In December, Dummerston was...
At first glance, the newly consolidated Vermont State Police troop areas look daunting. The new incarnation of Troop B stretches from Brattleboro and Bennington to Randolph and Vergennes. And the reconfigured Troop A includes all of northern Vermont, from barracks in Williston and St. Albans to stations in St.
A defense contractor has closed its Brattleboro plant, eliminating 15 jobs and leaving a 24,000-square-foot building vacant in the Exit One Industrial Park. L3 KEO announced Jan. 9 that its facility at 343 John Seitz Drive had shut, effective immediately. The Northampton, Massachusetts, based company characterized it as “a difficult but necessary decision in our ongoing effort to streamline business operations and achieve operational efficiencies.” L3 administrators said they're offering “a severance package, extended medical coverage, and outplacement assistance” to...
A public meeting will mark the start of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission's review of the proposed Vermont Yankee sale. But the Jan. 24 meeting isn't convening anywhere near the shut-down Vernon nuclear plant. Instead, it will happen 350 miles away at NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said such sessions - dubbed a “pre-submittal” meeting - typically are held in Maryland to allow for easier participation by NRC staff who will be involved in the review.
Auto parts manufacturer Sonnax Industries has been held up as a model for employee ownership. But federal regulators now are taking legal action, alleging that the process by which the Rockingham company was sold to its staffers was “fundamentally flawed” and led to “sizable financial losses” totaling millions of dollars for the employee stock ownership plan. The defendants named in the U.S. Department of Labor's suit include Sonnax; two company administrators who benefitted from the sale; and First Bankers Trust...
For years, administrators have been planning a large-scale upgrade of the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus to address long-term needs. But those efforts got a big boost in 2014, when Brattleboro resident Ronald Read bequeathed $6 million to the hospital. Now, that money will play a significant role in a proposed $22.7 million, four-story expansion that is expected to house new operating rooms, medical offices, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation facilities. The hospital has filed paperwork for state approval of the project, which...
A long-running state investigation of the Brattleboro Retreat may soon be finished. Sixteen months after the Vermont attorney general's probe first made headlines, an official said the inquiry - which came on the heels of a former staffer's Medicaid fraud allegations - is “still active,” but is mostly complete. “A large majority of that has been concluded, and it's only a single issue that's still under investigation,” said Jason Turner, an assistant attorney general and director of the office's Medicaid...
