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\n A former Twin Valley student, who is Black, has settled a complaint with the district that alleges school officials didn't do enough to address racist bullying she faced at the district's middle and high schools, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Vermont, which is representing her. In a 2021 complaint to the Vermont Human Rights Commission, the ACLU wrote that the student, referred to as "C.B.," was a 10th grader at Twin Valley Middle High School and...\n <\/p>\n
\n After about 80 minutes of discussion, 242, or 1.7%, of Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) voters agreed to a \$65,846,891 budget for fiscal year 2025 at its annual meeting on March 19. The breakdown of voters in attendance at Brattleboro Union High School was: 120, or 1.3% of eligible voters, from Brattleboro; 35, or 2.2%, from Dummerston; 49, or 2.8%, from Guilford; and 38, or 1.9%, from Putney. Moderator Steven Brown quickly dispatched articles electing him as moderator, Frank Rucker...\n <\/p>\n
\n Representative Town Meeting members went through several hours of discussion regarding non-binding resolutions after members increased the fiscal year 2025 budget by \$70,000 for climate change concerns and passed a total budget of \$23,063,830 - a 4.3% increase over this year's - by a 65–41 vote. The budget is predicated on \$17,701,970 being raised in property taxes. Members gathered at the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium on March 23. A quorum, defined as 50% of all potential RTM members plus...\n <\/p>\n
\n Do you have Monday, April 8, circled in red on your calendar? Just in case you are someone who isn't excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse, I want to make sure you know why you should be. If you have seen lunar eclipses and partial solar eclipses, you might think April 8 will be similar. Consider this: the sun is so bright that even a 90% eclipse could go unnoticed if you weren't watching for it. That is not...\n <\/p>\n
\n Some people call him St. Patrick. Former U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, along with his wife, Marcelle, are beloved by many in Vermont for many reasons. First, for their accessibility, and second, for their clear and obvious love of Vermont. Third, for being on the right side of most of the issues Vermonters care about. Fourth, for their wit, charm, warmth and grace. And fifth, for Sen. Leahy's record of ensuring that Vermont would get its slice of the federal-funding...\n <\/p>\n
\n Howard (Howie) Prussack is relaxed, sitting in the warmth of his greenhouse on this overcast March day, enjoying 70-degree weather among the tomato plants he started in late February. "The celery is up, and we're potting turmeric today. We're also working on ginger propagation," Prussack says. Turmeric and ginger? "People are getting older and want foods that keep us healthy," he says. "Powerful herbs and vegetables, carrots, turmeric, ginger - they are all important as one ages." These are new...\n <\/p>\n
\n Less than a month after their third appeal was turned down, two neighbors of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust's proposed affordable housing community on Alice Holway Drive have filed a fourth appeal - this time to the Vermont Supreme Court. Laura Campbell and Deborah Lazar have made the appeal, filed by attorney Hal Stevens, protesting the planned 25 units of mixed-income housing in two buildings on land on Alice Holway Drive next to the Putney Community Garden and Putney...\n <\/p>\n
\n Owing to an editor's error, the town clerk of Dummerston was inadvertently identified in the print version of this story and the original online post. It has been corrected. ——— After unofficially winning a three-year seat as a director on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board by just two votes in the March 5 election, Colleen Savage has retained that win following a recount. In the end, newcomer Savage won the seat over newcomer Richard Leavy by eight...\n <\/p>\n