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This van was used for Brattleboro MicroMoo, an on-demand nighttime transit service that ran for a little over a year. Despite being championed by state Sen. Wendy Harrison (inset) and other community leaders, the service will be discontinued on June 13.

MicroMoo transit service set to end June 13

State transit budget cuts, no continuing town support, and fewer riders than expected doom the evening service experiment and disappoint its architects and rider base
By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 — Issue 819

BRATTLEBORO-The MicroMoo bus service is being discontinued by Southeast Vermont Transit (SEVT), which runs the Holstein-decorated MOOver buses, leaving many people unable to get to and from work during hours when regular buses do not operate.

The MicroMoo bus, launched as a pilot project in April 2024, was running weekdays from 5 to 11 p.m. as an on-demand service as opposed to a fixed route, so that riders could go directly from one point to another within the town.

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Lawmakers pause before final push on education bill

With the major legislation done, local legislators are preparing to return to Montpelier on June 16

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 — Issue 819

BRATTLEBORO-The Legislature usually retires for the year in early May. Yet it is early June, it has not adjourned, and the legislators are at home. What is going on? The roadblock is the education bill, and that is why the Legislature is taking a two-week break before returning to...

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More than 25 federal government protest actions planned across state

‘No Kings’ marches and rallies planned in Vermont and the nation on June 14

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 — Issue 819

On Saturday, June 14, local organizers, activists, partners, and leaders from across pro-democracy and pro-worker movements will come together for more than 25 "No Kings: A Nationwide Day of Defiance" events across Vermont. It's part of more than 500 events nationwide on Flag Day, which also coincide with President...

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Helping families in ‘a place that is like home’

By
Robert F. Smith
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 — Issue 818

BELLOWS FALLS-Founded in 1995, Parks Place Community Resource Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary still focused on its original mission - "to create opportunities by connecting people and resources in the Greater Falls area." The nonprofit is marking its 30th anniversary with a celebration at its 44 School St. location at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 7. The event will include pizza, birthday cake, games, and music, with special guests Troy Wunderle and Wade Garrett, a.k.a. DJ Wade the Great.

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‘Lots of frustration’: business leaders sound off on tariffs

By
Greta Solssa
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 — Issue 818

MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't faced in our 170-year career," company president Simon Perkins said at a May 28 roundtable on tariffs hosted by U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont. At Orvis's flagship rod shop and factory, Perkins said the Trump administration's shifting policies have not given businesses enough time to adapt their sourcing and manufacturing models to absorb the shock of tariffs. "It's really hard for a business to respond...

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Brattleboro gets a ‘compromise’ budget after a second try

By
Virginia Ray
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 — Issue 818

BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a fiscal year 2026 budget of $24,971,305. Approval came on a roll call vote of 110–4 near the end of a two-hour meeting in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium, the site of the annual Representative Town Meeting on March 22 which rejected the first version of the FY26 budget, 76–57, and sent it back to the Selectboard. The newly reconstituted board, with three new members,

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Shirley Squires reaches $500,000 milestone

By
Kevin O'Connor
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 — Issue 818

BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont charity walk on May 31 with four generations of family, including the newest member born just two weeks ago. Though rain forced organizers to cancel the annual outdoor stroll, Squires still shined, raising $22,291 in contributions this year to reach a lifetime fundraising milestone of $500,298. "Your unwavering commitment is nothing short of extraordinary," U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vermont,

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A $4 million deficit looms over hospital this year

By
Kevin O'Connor
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 — Issue 818

BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is seeking $4 million in expense reductions and new revenue in the next four months to balance its $119 million annual budget. "Like rural hospitals here in Vermont and across the nation, BMH faces significant financial challenges that have been imposed on us in large measure by both the state and federal governments," President Christopher Dougherty wrote to the hospital's 150 community corporators in an email over the Memorial Day weekend. The hospital is exploring 40 "strategies"

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