BRATTLEBORO — In Youth Services' latest workforce development initiative, a youth-led screen printing business [“Program helps youth build their skills, futures,” [News, Nov. 7], youth workers get paid, but their adult mentors are volunteers.
“It is actually essential to the relationship model that the mentors don't get paid, that they come to the process for the sake of the relationship and their communities,” explains Nanci Leitch, development director of Youth Services.
TOWNSHEND-The people of the West River Valley love Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital for...
BRATTLEBORO-As the town approaches the end of its current contract for solid waste collection, the...
BRATTLEBORO-Five years ago, this community received an early Christmas present with the November 2019 news...
BRATTLEBORO-One winter not so long ago, Tony, a professional juggler, discovered that a huge icicle...
Chris Campany sounded a municipal alarm. "Every day I see our towns holding on by a thread or breaking, and I fear those doing the work of towns are on the verge of breaking as well," the executive director of the Windham Regional Commission (WRC) wrote in a recent opinion piece published by VTDigger. Campany noted that towns have limited capacity to meet the increasing demands of basic town management, including dealing with storm damage, managing major infrastructure planning and...
Two years ago, I wrote a letter supporting Sara Coffey. I gave her my support after riding around with her as she campaigned and listening to what she said. At that time my support for her was primarily based on the hope that she would actually do what she was promising the people of Vernon and Guilford. I am pleased to again write a letter of support - this time, based on what she's actually done. Sara's record over the...
On Oct. 15, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Oct. 16, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Rockingham Hill Farm, 34 Meetinghouse Road, the Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce will host its third annual Southern Vermont Flannel Festival. “Surround yourself with pies, cider, craft beer, pies, cocktails, pumpkins, food and craft vendors, and more pies, even a pie contest, and beautiful Vermont foliage as we celebrate community and welcome autumn surrounded by the vistas of the Vermont...
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