Love this story! Ana was my son Leo's preschool teacher. I am so happy for the family and the amazing resourcefulness and commitment that brought them all back together. So happy for Ana.
ATHENS-Jeff Potter's column argues that because some United Nations officials and nongovernmental organizations argue Israel's...
BRATTLEBORO-Australian (secret) ballot is the only way all the registered voters of Brattleboro get to...
Tristan Roberts (tristan@tristanroberts.org) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
Daniel Quipp served on the Brattleboro Selectboard from 2019 to 2025. BRATTLEBORO-In the last month...
In the Morningside cooking class, kids learned how to follow a recipe as well as preparing food by following their senses. The popular salad dressing from last Wednesday night followed the taste buds approach. “Admittedly, we didn't use a recipe for the salad dressing for last Wednesday's Morningside family dinner,” Senni wrote in an email. “Sometimes we can be rigid with recipes in class, and other times we just use our senses to create things.” “So here, more or less,
The COVID-19 pandemic presented profound challenges nationwide, and downtown Brattleboro was no exception.The constantly changing landscape of shutdowns and reopenings, evolving safety mandates, reduced revenue, and shared trauma has made for an unthinkably difficult time. However, we are proud to report that we met the challenges head on and that we succeeded in supporting our community in ways we never imagined possible. We focused our strategy around three prongs: keeping our community safe, responding to urgent needs, and uplifting our...
A dozen 11th and 12th graders at the Compass School have spent the past six weeks studying films, writing screenplays, and producing their own short films in preparation for the 12th Annual Compass Student Film Festival on Thursday, April 14, at 7 p.m. - the culminating event for their filmmaking class. This interdisciplinary course is a popular course at the school, led by humanities teacher Julia Taylor and science/technology teacher Eric Rhomberg. Taylor and Rhomberg say they enjoy team-teaching the...
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