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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
School board members have decided to temporarily shutter Windham Elementary School after administrators struggled to fill staffing positions at the tiny school. The three-person Windham School Board voted on Dec. 14 to close the 15-student school and send kids to Townshend Elementary, roughly 10 miles away. Students will continue to attend Windham Elementary through this week and will begin at Townshend in the new year. "This is a short-term emergency measure," said Windham Central Supervisory Union Superintendent Bob Thibault at...
On Saturday, March 4, from 6 p.m. onward, Compass School will host its annual Fiesta dinner, dance, and silent auction. An all-inclusive multicourse Caribbean-inspired meal will be served, followed by the Eugene Uman Latin Jazz ensemble performing dance music. Uman is a renowned pianist and composer who is director of the Vermont Jazz Center and his band “is sure to rip it up” with beautiful Latin jazz-inspired dance music, according to a news release. There will be a silent auction...
Recently, our president characterized Haiti and some African nations as “shithole countries” whose people are not worthy of emigration to the United States. Yet again, another racist assault from Donald Trump. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a United Nations affiliate of the top 35 advanced democracies, the United States has: • the highest income inequality. • the most childhood poverty - 25 percent. • a rank of 19th in infant mortality. According to Dr. Ashish...
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