NEWFANE — My son had Nicole Plympton last year, and he absolutely loved her.
He has had troubles with focus while in school, and she connected with him and made him enjoy education.
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
Wind, rain, and neglect have stolen most of the names. The Brattleboro Retreat's former Asylum Cemetery rests to the side of one of the many trails once walked by patients to assist their therapy and healing. There, circled by granite posts, stand the few remaining gravestones, worn nearly smooth where names, birth dates, and the dates of death once were visible. In the cemetery used for the first 70 years or so of the psychiatric hospital's history, those gravestones marked...
Our window for enjoying live outdoor music is rather short in Vermont - three months, if we're lucky. So why not pile the kids in the car, grab a blanket and some folding chairs, and head to the Retreat Farm to hear great local music while sampling appealing global cuisine? (You won't even have to clean up!) The Retreat Farm has just what locals and tourists alike are looking for this summer as its live music summer season continues with...
Our town celebrates its passage of a school budget that recognizes the educational benefit of relationships between culture, local economy, health, hunger, food, and our environment. A budget that is 0.4 percent higher than the spending for the current year supports project-based learning in our school meal program and guarantees that all children will have access to healthy, tasty food during the school day without stigma. We recognize that hungry children do not have the same opportunities to reach their...
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