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...
The good news: town search committees tasked with choosing a new town manager can spot great candidates. The bad news: other communities have snapped up the great candidates ahead of Brattleboro. The Selectboard announced at its regular July 15 board meeting that it is ready to proceed with the third round of its town manager search. Board Chair David Gartenstein told the public that the board reopened the search for the second time in February. The town received 43 applications...
Climate change is so important because if we don't do something the world will get overheated and it will become unsafe for people to go outside. It is so important that kids are even striking for climate justice. They are doing something called School Strike for Climate Justice, where kids and adults stop going to school to protest climate change. Global warming is dangerous. It is causing the world to get overheated, and it will continue to do damage to...
The inclusive Theatre Adventure Thursday Troupe will present an original online production, Ordinary Heroes, on Wednesday, Nov. 11, Thursday, Nov. 12, and Friday, Nov. 13. According to a news release, this theater troupe of 20 actors “command their new online performing space with great flair. They will express their inner strengths and capacities to face adversity and challenges with courage and belief in self. The performers are not defined by their disabilities. Rather, the actors' honesty creates brave and innovative...
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