It is so important to shine a light on the dark corners of our institutions. Parents and members of the community place trust that children will be protected from harm in these safe spaces. What has been revealed, time and again, is that our trust must not be blind.
Thank you for providing a responsible, considerate place for these truths to be revealed. My hope is that, as a society, we begin to recognize the red flags of abuse through the sharing of these stories.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
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As much as any provider within the state’s strained mental health system, the staff at the Brattleboro Retreat are attuned to the fact that every day Vermonters in crisis wait for care in emergency departments across the state. That’s why they are pushing to get back to pre-COVID-19 levels of inpatient beds as quickly as possible, and why they just launched a new ambulance transport service pilot program through a contract with Rescue Inc. “The Retreat will be over that...
Thank you for the excellent work on a much appreciated news source for Windham County! I just discovered a small error in the article on the Harris Hill ski jump, which states that “Mount Washington is the highest peak in the eastern United States.” Mount Washington is only the highest peak in the northeastern U.S. Mount Mitchell in North Carolina takes the title of highest peak in the eastern U.S. When I was double-checking that fact, I discovered that Mount...
River Gallery School of Art (RGS) has begun the search for a new executive director. The former executive director, Mary Lou Forward, announced in April she would depart the organization. In a news release, the board of directors said that they and the greater RGS community “wish to thank Forward for her positive impact at the school.” “A committee of the Board of Trustees is enacting a process of interviewing interested candidates and preparing written materials that describe the vision...
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