BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:
There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
By a vote of 508–126, voters of the Windham Southeast School District authorized spending up to $2 million to renovate portions of the Academy School on May 11. The school, in West Brattleboro, serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The renovation project includes improving indoor air quality, replacing windows in 14 classrooms, reconfiguring a classroom to support small group learning, demolishing a temporary modular unit, and adding an approximately-2,000- square-foot addition. Engineering and architecture firm Stevens & Associates of...
Proposed amendments to Brattleboro's Charter are on the March 3, 2015, ballot. The Brattleboro Selectboard asks you to consider the following when voting: • Town Meeting term limits - Brattleboro's Town Meeting is both participatory and representative democracy. Up to 155 residents get elected and gather annually to make budget and policy decisions for the town. It is anti-democratic to ban Brattleboro residents from Town Meeting because they have attended six years in a row. Term limits would bar many...
The Rockingham Free Public Library presents Media Educator Ben Boyington, a contributor to The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 1 p.m. During the recent presidential election, media literacy became a phrase that signified the threat media manipulation posed to democratic processes, states a news release. Meanwhile, statistical research has shown that 8- to 18-year-olds pack more than 11 hours with some form of media into each day by...
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