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TODAY’S FEATURE/NEWS

Digging out

Power will be out for days for some after a Nor’easter slams Windham County with wet, heavy snow — snapping trees, downing utility lines, closing roads, and slowing life to a crawl

Hours after the snow stopped falling, Windham County continued to dig out from a late-winter nor’easter that dumped 3 feet of snow — or more — in many spots in higher elevations.... Continue reading story

TODAY’S FEATURE/NEWS

Digging out

Power will be out for days for some after a Nor’easter slams Windham County with wet, heavy snow — snapping trees, downing utility lines, closing roads, and slowing life to a crawl

Hours after the snow stopped falling, Windham County continued to dig out from a late-winter nor’easter that dumped 3 feet of snow — or more — in many spots in higher elevations.... Continue reading story

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NEWS

BELLOWS FALLS

At Windham Northeast, a fresh approach to school meals

Food service director Harley Sterling has a simple philosophy — buy local, make it fresh, and feed everybody

Supreme Court changes put state school choice in flux

A new U.S. Supreme Court precedent allows public funding of religious schools. With state laws suddenly in conflict, lawmakers are also fighting those who want to keep things just as they are.

Power restored in aftermath of late-winter storm

Weather service: ‘good confidence that the snowmelt flood threat remains low’

PUTNEY

Putney takes steps to a brighter future

Our Future Putney community brainstorming focuses on revitalizing downtown, creating a community center, and developing housing solutions

BRATTLEBORO

WSESD sexual abuse investigation may be ‘moving into next phase’

But the school board, citing legal advice, isn’t saying what that phase might be or how long that might take

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TOWN & VILLAGE

• HCRS, ICH conduct mental health and substance use assessment

• Around the Towns

• Sugar Season events celebrate historic preservation at Scott Farm

• Senior Solutions seeks volunteers for Home Visitor programs

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SPECIAL SECTION

READERS RESPOND • At what point does winter become spring?: Readers told us when the change of seasons becomes real to them

COLUMN • A favorite and versatile sweetener: Maple-baked egg cups are a slightly more subtle way to enjoy the flavor, and boiled dumplings are a celebration of maple — lots of maple

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MILESTONES

• Milestones

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SPORTS

• Local hoop standouts shine at annual VBCA All-Star games

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VOICES

BRATTLEBORO

How did we let our housing crisis happen?

LETTERS FROM READERS by Dagan S. Broad

BRATTLEBORO

With proposed asylum policy, Biden misses the mark

LETTERS FROM READERS by Community Asylum Seekers Project

EAST DUMMERSTON

A groundbreaking geologist

Elizabeth Florette Fisher made her academic mark with her scholarship of the terraces along the West River. She later defied gender expectations as a professor, mentor, textbook author, and — complicated though her legacy is — a conservationist. ESSAY by John S. Warren

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE • ‘This may be the most important vote I cast this year’: Quick access to guns combined with depression and other forms of mental illness can and does result in tragedy. A House bill intends to save lives.

LETTERS FROM READERS • Timing unfortunate for firefighters union’s support of town-operated ambulance

LETTERS FROM READERS • Discussion will address our cultural impasse on abortion

LETTERS FROM READERS • Brattleboro EMS service: What we were told vs. what actually happened

LETTERS FROM READERS • What happened with EMS, and what have we (or should we have) learned?

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ARTS

COLUMN • ‘You can’t pin us down’: Peter Siegel of The Gaslight Tinkers talks music, influences, and playing at The Stone Church

• Weston Theater Company announces lineup for its 87th season

• Vermont Comedy All Stars return to Next Stage

• BMAC hosts Ukrainian egg decorating workshop on April 1

• Stage 33 Live presents Bethanie Yeakle with Matt Sharff and Garth Tichy

• UMass Percussion Ensemble performs at BMAC on March 25

• Davis to perform original songs

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