BRATTLEBORO — Photo galleries by Randolph T. Holhut (from the ground) and Jeff Potter (from one flight up)
BRATTLEBORO — Photo galleries by Randolph T. Holhut (from the ground) and Jeff Potter (from one flight up)
BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
BRATTLEBORO-Once you have lived through a civil war, or been beaten and tortured and starved,
“I'm concerned,” Agency of Human Services (AHS) Secretary Doug Racine said about budget cuts facing the agency. AHS provides numerous services for vulnerable Vermonters, he said, and it is struggling to keep up with increased demand for services and fewer resources to deliver them. Racine visited Windham County last Thursday to connect with AHS staff members and to hear their thoughts on the issues facing the agency. Staff members told him that some of the agency's computer systems are “antiquated.”
Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C.'s public schools, recently remarked, “There are many nations who have figured out what works in education. Look at Singapore.” Rhee, the CEO of StudentsFirst, a group working for educational reform, said that last summer, she heard the prime minister give a speech “in which he outlined the plan for making Singapore No. 1 in the world, financially. His economic plan was rooted in education. He knows that if the country can make...
The Vermont Humanities Council has selected Vermont author Katherine Paterson's book Bread and Roses, Too as its Vermont Reads book for 2018. Vermont Reads is a statewide one-book community reading program that began in 2003. VHC provides books for free to communities through an application process as well as resources for developing community book-related activities. Since the beginning of the program, Vermont Reads events have taken place in more than 200 Vermont towns. Bread and Roses, Too is a novel...
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