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...
As Etta Mattison maneuvered a giant pair of scissors to snip the ribbon that spanned the new bay doors on the renovated Central Fire Station, a long-anticipated project was finally complete. The Brattleboro Fire Department now has a bigger, brighter, cleaner central station, where the vehicles fit through the bay doors, and the asbestos has been removed. Mattison's husband, the late T. Howard Mattison, was chief of the Brattleboro Fire Department for 30 years. Mattison said she was there to...
Education finance in Vermont is an often-hard-to-understand-and-quite-complex system. Act 59 of 2021 created the “Task Force on the Implementation of the Pupil Weighting Factors Report” and a group of eight Vermont legislators who will spend time this summer determining, as the name implies, the best path forward to implementing its recommendations. This isn't an overhaul; this is correcting two decades of harm caused by a flawed formula. “The major recommendations of the [2019 Pupil Weighting Factors] Report are straightforward, specifically...
Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) will launch its first Open Lab on Saturday, May 30, on the campus of Marlboro College in Marlboro. This year's theme is dance. VPL's Open Lab is a one-day event that starts with an afternoon picnic, followed by open rehearsals, workshops, films, and talks. Each year, VPL's Lab provides artists with residencies and support to research and develop new work in dance, theater, film, and music. This year, VPL's Open Lab invites participants to the studios...
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