BRATTLEBORO-In the hope that students will eat more nutritionally and feel more healthy, the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) board voted unanimously last month to transition to a self-operated food service program. The program will be fully in place by June for the Summer Food Service Program prior to the start of the 2025–26 school year this fall. Food Program Coordinator Susan Grabowski called the move "groundbreaking" in her announcement. "This decision marks a pivotal step toward aligning our meal...
BRATTLEBORO-After serving two years of her three-year term on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school board, Dummerston representative Eva Nolan has resigned. "I have made the difficult decision to resign from WSESD so that voters can have ample time to choose their representative for the rest of the year," Nolan wrote in her resignation letter, effective Jan. 1. "I genuinely feel that under the current board structure there isn't a clear path toward meaningful progress." Asked to further explain...
BRATTLEBORO-Facing a 22% municipal property tax hike this coming fiscal year, town leaders have suggested lowering expenses through everything from curbing office-supply purchases to closing the public pool. But the eight-resident Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee is questioning why officials aren't slicing into the biggest percentage of the budget pie: personnel. Municipal leaders in Vermont's 247 cities and towns, now drafting 2025-26 budget proposals for March Town Meeting consideration, are reporting challenges with costlier health insurance, continuing 2023 and 2024...
BRATTLEBORO-Residents are angry about what is going on in their town, with drugs and crime heading the list. And Hank Poitras, 42, otherwise known as Planet Hank, knows how to rev them up. On Friday night, he filled American Legion Post 5 to overflowing with people who wanted to express their outrage at open drug dealing, needles on the ground, people defecating and urinating on Flat Street, and their extremely high taxes. At least 200 residents, including police in uniform,
-With the start of the 2025-26 legislative biennium at the State House in Montpelier came the reshuffling of committee assignments in the House and Senate. Windham County's two incumbent Democratic senators, Wendy Harrison of Brattleboro and Nader Hashim of Dummerston, will be in charge of committees in that chamber this biennium. Harrison will lead the Institutions Committee, replacing Russ Ingalls, R-Essex, who led the committee in the last biennium. Ingalls will now lead the Agriculture Committee. Hashim will chair the...
15 years ago January 2010 issue If you think you're cold, consider the frigid conditions on a 121.9-mile walk from Brattleboro to Montpelier with daily distances between 6.2 miles and 15 miles. From Jan. 2 to 13, participants in the "Step It Up to Shut It Down: A Winter's Walk" will do just that on a pilgrimage to persuade the state Legislature not to renew the license of the Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon, set to expire in...
