The ceremonial first shovel was turned on May 5 for Windham & Windsor Housing Trust’s 25-unit housing project at Alice Holway Drive in Putney. State Treasurer Mike Pieciak is on the left.
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Breaking ground

After years of planning, and litigation, WWHT celebrates start of its Putney housing project

PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based Evernorth celebrated the groundbreaking of 25 mixed-income, energy-efficient apartments on Alice Holway Drive on May 5.

The 25 new apartments will help address the housing shortage in Putney, which is estimated to need 80 new rental and owner-occupied homes within the next five years, according to the town's recently released Housing Needs Assessment and Action Plan.

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The great-great-grandmother of all fundraisers

BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires has reason to wait until the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont's annual Walk for Life fundraiser later this month. The 94-year-old didn't know much about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) when it struck her son, former state Rep. Ronald Squires, D-Guilford, some four decades ago. The lawmaker was the first in the Vermont Legislature to announce his homosexuality,

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At Rockingham Meeting House, workers dig up local history

ROCKINGHAM-A crew from Hartgen Archeological Associates spent a week at the Rockingham Meeting House earlier this month, completing a survey of the property using ground radar and digging test pits. The project takes place in anticipation of work to stabilize the building, which dates to 1787 and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2000. According to the town's website, the Meeting House is "the largest intact 18th [century] public building remaining in Vermont still in its original form and...

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A half-century legacy

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown produce to southeastern Vermont, and invites you - whether you are a foodie, a restaurateur, a health enthusiast, or simply someone who loves to be outside - to join us! We offer the freshest foods and agricultural products that can be produced in our Vermont soils. The market additionally offers our community a welcoming outdoor gathering place, with live music, tables to use while talking...

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Plan takes shape to make Vermont a part of Canada (symbolically)

BRATTLEBORO-Given so many angry protests about the Trump administration recently, some residents thought that a positive, welcoming, whimsical approach for just one day might add a breath of fresh air. So they set up Vermont Canada Day. The idea is simple: Canada is not an enemy, nor a potential 51st state, as the president has forebodingly suggested. It is, by many objective yardsticks, a good friend and neighbor of Vermont. July 1, Canada Day, is the official Canadian celebration of...

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An impact on the local food landscape

BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not have imagined he would go on to build a $5 million regional food distribution network that would fundamentally reshape how communities think about local agriculture. Now, after nearly two decades of pioneering local and regional food distribution, Berkfield, founding director of Food Connects in Brattleboro, is stepping down. Since March 24, Deputy Director Lee Halpern has served as interim executive director, with Berkfield helping with...

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Brattleboro board hammers out new budget to send to Town Meeting

BRATTLEBORO-After eight intense meetings to draft a new budget, the Selectboard has voted to recommend a $24.97 million budget for fiscal year 2026 budget - a budget just 1.3% less than the one that Representative Town Meeting failed to pass in March. The Selectboard-recommended plan proposes a 10.8% increase in municipal taxes, but taxpayers can expect to see their bills increase by about 5.6% on the tax levy in fiscal year 2026 when the school district is factored in. If...

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Riverfront Park expansion plans take shape in Bellows Falls

BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a vision to transform an abandoned, polluted 8-acre former industrial site along the Connecticut River into a universally accessible community park. That vision has resulted in Riverfront Park, a beautiful green space in the center of the Village, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, with accessible hiking trails, meadows, benches, picnic tables, a pond, a labyrinth, and the only direct access to the river...

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‘This isn’t about right and left. It’s about right and wrong.’

BRATTLEBORO-On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Brattleboro to protect democracy and denounce the Trump administration's effort to roll back workers' rights, cut education funding, carry out mass deportations, and much more. "Show up and make your voices heard," said Calvin Dame of Brattleboro Area Action, one of the organizers of a May Day march along with Brattleboro Indivisible and 50501 Vermont. "This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong." "This is...

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