Girl Scouts in Vermont and New Hampshire have already kicked off the 2025 cookie season, a time when scouts "hone their entrepreneurial skills as they find new and inventive ways to sell cookies, unboxing brighter futures for themselves," according to a news release from Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains.
Scouts who sell cookies acquire "a host of invaluable entrepreneurial skills, including goal setting, money management, decision-making, people skills, and business ethics," and "obtain transferable life skills as they earn a variety of badges and awards, including Cookie Business badges, Financial Literacy badges, Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins and Entrepreneur badges," according to leaders.
The 2025 cookie lineup includes favorites such as Thin Mints, Samoas, and Tagalongs, but the Girl Scout S'mores cookie flavor will be retired after this season.
All proceeds from cookie sales stay with local troops to fuel inspiring experiences throughout the year including camp, amazing trips, service projects, and much more.
The Governor's Institutes of Vermont (GIV) has just opened applications for the 2025 offerings of their residential summer programs. Vermont ninth, 10th, and 11th grade students are invited to apply. GIV Institutes take place on Vermont college campuses and give their attendees the opportunity to dive deep into a...
Kindergarten sign-ups begin in Windham Southeast BRATTLEBORO - If you live in Brattleboro, it's time to register your child for kindergarten. The three elementary schools in Brattleboro have begun kindergarten registration for children who turn five on or before Sept. 1, 2025. You can find information and links to...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-In the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., All Souls Church, Unitarian Universalists, and the Windham County Vermont NAACP will host a Justice Soup Supper and Community Sing on Friday, Jan. 17, at 5:30 p.m. at West Village Meetinghouse, 29 South St. The gathered community is invited to share a meal together, witness part of King's last speech in Memphis in April 1968 - "I've Been to the Mountaintop" - and sing spirituals and justice songs...
BRATTLEBORO-Events are being planned all across the nation to commemorate, in 2026, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. "This 'semiquincentennial' calls for more than just a bigger fireworks display," local organizers said in a news release. "It offers an opportunity to creatively engage and express ideas about our country's past and future and what it means to be an American in the world today." How Vermont, and specifically the Brattleboro area, shares these ideas with the...
Dog licensing for 2025 begins now BRATTLEBORO - It is time to license dogs again per Vermont law. All that is needed is a current rabies certificate issued and signed by a veterinarian. Vaccination against rabies is required by Vermont Statutes before licensing. Effective Jan. 1, dog licensing fees were increased statewide by $2 per dog. This money will go directly to the state to fund an animal welfare program. If an animal has been spayed or neutered, documentation from...
BRATTLEBORO-On Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 6:30 p.m., Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) will host professor and documentary filmmaker Dr. Larry Shore, who will speak on the topic "Apartheid in the Rear View Mirror: The Successes and Failures of the First Thirty Years of South African Democracy." The talk will take place at 118 Elliot, at 118 Elliot St. What is the state of South African democracy? The talk will examine the factors that led to South Africa's negotiated revolution, the...
Sign up now for Pre-K programs in Windham Southeast BRATTLEBORO - Families with children who will be 4 on or before Sept. 1, 2025, and reside in Brattleboro, Guilford, Putney, or Dummerston are invited to enroll in Windham Southeast School District's public, tuition-free pre-kindergarten programs. Programs are offered at Oak Grove School (with a satellite classroom at Canal Street School) in Brattleboro, Guilford Central School, Dummerston School, and Putney Central School. Their classrooms operate on the school year calendar. Those...