BRATTLEBORO-Windham County educators and community members have been quick to stand up for diversity, equity,
Selectboard members were all ears at an April 8 "listening session" and spent most of...
BRATTLEBORO-U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard...
BELLOWS FALLS-Longtime area educator Kate Kane has been named the new principal of Central Elementary...
Rep. Mike Hebert was no fan of Vermont's new education-governance law when his colleagues approved it last year. Now, the Vernon Republican is questioning the transparency and integrity of the process by which Act 46 is being implemented in Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, which includes his two-town district. Hebert is concerned enough that, on March 23, he submitted a public-records request for all written and electronic communications among representatives of Windham Southeast; the supervisory union's Act 46 Study Committee; the...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their backgrounds and implications, document what's really happening, then share food for thought with fellow grassroots Vermonters. PUTNEY-What happens when consultants from afar "with decades of experience in large, urban settings," as they claim on their website, offer their professional advice to rural Vermont towns? Putney is an example. Based in Sheridan, Wyoming, AP Triton advised the town in its Fire Department Operations Analysis: "It is...
The NXT Gallery presents an art exhibit by Karen Becker, titled “Bearing Witness, Part 2,” from Sunday, May 21, to Aug. 13, 2023 at the NXT Gallery, 15 Kimball Hill. The opening reception for the exhibit will be held on May 21 from 3 to 5 pm. The majority of the exhibition is devoted to Becker's love of nature and the threat of the climate crisis. The animals and trees represented all bear witness to the devastation that is unfolding...
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