Brattleboro police regularly publicize their drug busts on Facebook, including photos of weapons, narcotics, and other illicit items seized while apprehending suspects.
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The mean streets of Brattleboro

The streets of almost every town and city in this country are filling up with a rising tide of pain and suffering. We have to find a comprehensive solution before we can move forward in any meaningful way.

BRATTLEBORO-A great tsunami of pain is coming toward us, and there's no getting out of the way.

Oh, sorry. False alarm. It's already here.

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Brattleboro police face paradox in steering their top 20 to help

BRATTLEBORO-When local police studied the nearly 29,000 calls they've received in the past three years, they discovered the 20 people most cited for problems accounted for 1,700 - or 6% - of all complaints. That was only the first surprise. Most calls about the top 20 didn't involve criminal behavior, but disorderly conduct, disputes, and disturbances often linked to alcohol and drug use or mental health issues, municipal statistics show. But when authorities identified the offenders to area social service...

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For Balint, chaos, hope, and a looming budget showdown

BRATTLEBORO-There have been highs, there have been lows, and then there was the Democratic National Convention. "Ebullient" would be the best word to describe Vermont U.S. Rep. Becca Balint going into the event, which was held in Chicago from Aug. 19 to 22 to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the Democrats' candidates in the November election. "It felt like the roof was being blown off the top of the convention center by the...

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Two diplomats discuss a complex, changing world

BRATTLEBORO-With wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, plus a very uncertain presidential race in the United States, the Windham World Affairs Council's annual Galbraith Lecture featured a wide-ranging and candid discussion that touched on Afghanistan, Cuba, Ukraine, the Leahy Amendment as it applies to Hamas and Israel, and other hot foreign policy issues. "A Meeting of the Minds: Peter Galbraith and Tim Rieser Discuss What Lies Ahead - U.S. Foreign Policy Today and After the Election" featured two long-time insiders:

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Special Focus Issue: Struggle for Solutions

NEWS FEATURES BY ELLEN PRATTA helping handCas Clarke's first job with the Brauleboro Food Co-op required him to address shoplifting. The safety and outreach manager note tries to positively change the lives and struggles of people on the street. Housing solutions are few, while the need is greatWith a housing market that is out of reach of practically everybody, three people in the state’s General Assistance Emergency Housing Program look to a future without shelter Taking it to the streetsNew...

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Rockingham Meeting House gets $750,000 preservation grant

ROCKINGHAM-The Rockingham Meeting House has been awarded a National Historic Preservation Grant for $750,000 toward current efforts to preserve the town's first public structure. The funding is one of 19 awarded in nine states by the National Park Service through its Semiquincentennial Grant Program in honor of the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026. The town describes the meeting house as "the largest intact [18th-century] public building remaining in Vermont still in its original material form and in active use." The...

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‘The backbone of what we do’

PUTNEY-Putney Community Cares will hold an Open House and Volunteer Appreciation Party on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m., in the Laura Heller Community Barn at 54 Kimball Hill. "We want to celebrate not only our amazing volunteers, but also the improvements to our physical space," said Ruby McAdoo, Putney Community Cares coordinator, who described the nonprofit's volunteers and donors as "the backbone of what we do." "Volunteers are the drivers and packers for our Meals on Wheels...

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‘They were tough times, but we made the best of it’

DUMMERSTON-Eleanor Emery will turn 97 years old in October - a fact that she conveys with some pride. "Who knew?" Emery asks, throwing her head back and laughing. Born at the family home in West Guilford in 1927, Emery remains as sharp as a tack. This time of year often stirs two memories. The first is of the one-room District No. 1 schoolhouse, where Emery was a student from 1933 to 1941. "My school years were during the Great Depression.

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'The right thing for Vermont kids'

WESTMINSTER-Harley Sterling, director of the Windham Northeast food program, which runs during the school year from the end of August to the beginning of June and provides breakfast and lunch to students, always aims to "push the limits of what's possible." Sterling, with his team of 12 cooks, do the best from-scratch cooking they can with local ingredients at a time for the six schools in WNESU - elementary schools in Westminster, Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, and Athens; Bellows Falls...

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