Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!
Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) board has collectively spoken for the first time at any length publicly since learning of allegations of repeated sexual abuse and grooming by former Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. The statement integrates a number of ideas that have emerged, including issues of process, procedure, the board's responsiveness, the independence of an investigation, sensitivity to and confidentiality of survivors in the process, and examination of the current school climate. However, nowhere...
The Northeast Fiddlers Association is planning a repeat local “fiddle meet,” with another gathering at the Moose Club in Bellows Falls on Sunday, Oct. 21, beginning at noon. The NEFA is inviting local fiddlers, musicians, and folks who enjoy listening, dancing, and socializing to traditional fiddle music to join them for this free event. All fiddle meets begin with a jam that lasts for one hour. Fiddlers, (or other instrumentalists) sign up on a numbered list when they arrive and...
Westminster voters received a postcard at the end of last week which addresses the upcoming vote on school district consolidation and urges voters to vote no. The postcard is signed by the group “Local Communities for Local Schools.” Together with more than two dozen people from Brattleboro, Vernon, Dummerston, Guilford, Marlboro, Westminster, Putney, and Wardsboro, I am a member of this group. Our group was formed over six months ago by citizens concerned about the potential side effects of consolidation:
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