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Focus on Act 46

On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — Issue 355

• Viewpoint: Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe on towns' ultimate autonomy in offering school choice to their respective students.

• Counterpoint: Compass School Director Rick Gordon responds to Holcombe's piece.

• Viewpoint: David Schoales, a member of the Brattleboro Selectboard and Town School Board, offers his personal point of view on the rush to change.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Warming trend through Saturday leads to showery Sunday

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 — Issue 503

Good day to you, fine folks of southeastern Vermont! As high pressure tracks east of our region for the second half of the week, we will be placed into a warming, southerly flow. Aside from some scattered showers Thursday night into Friday morning, we will enjoy fair and increasingly mild weather conditions through Saturday, by which time we could crest 60 degrees in some towns! Sunday looks showery as a cold front works through the region, with cooler, seasonable and...

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Voices

No ideal day for Town Meeting

By
Deborah Lee Luskin
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 — Issue 536

I'm disheartened that the politicking for president takes up so much bandwidth, while interest, concern, and planning for Town Meeting takes up so little, especially when what we decide at Town Meeting can have more direct effect on how we live, both individually and in community. I'm not saying that national politics aren't important; they are. But while people in Washington are grandstanding at best - and grinding our democracy into the ground at worst - we can accomplish important...

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Arts

BUHS hosts regional fall music festival

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 — Issue 690

The Connecticut Valley District Fall Music Festival will be held at Brattleboro Union High School on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19. Approximately 150 student musicians from Windham and Windsor counties will form four honors ensembles, including a high school band and an a cappella choir and a middle school jazz band and chorus. The musicians were selected from auditions or teacher recommendations. This festival was last held in November 2019. Represented schools include Brattleboro Union High School, Brattleboro...

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