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BRATTLEBORO — The town will be increasing salaries for police officers and creating a new fund for initiatives aimed at establishing alternatives to traditional policing.
BRATTLEBORO — People attend the Brattleboro Farmers Market on a recent Saturday afternoon. The summer market off Western Avenue is open Saturd…
GUILFORD — A new roadside marker at the Welcome Center on Interstate 91 recognizes the first known African American poet in the United States …
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BELLOWS FALLS — The Rockingham Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to save the stee…
PUTNEY — For Eleni Maksakuli, it’s simple.
JAMAICA — Residents voted 55-27 to allow cannabis retailers to set up shop in town and rejec…
BRATTLEBORO — The town will be increasing salaries for police officers and creating a new fu…
BRATTLEBORO — Love It Twice Resale and Consignment shop has reopened at a new location at Bl…
BRATTLEBORO — D.M.I. Paving (a contractor of the town) will be paving in various locations throughout Brattleboro in the coming days.
BELLOWS FALLS — Greater Falls Connections will host the “Bike to the Box” event on National Take Back Day on Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at t…
WILLIAMSVILLE — The Manitou Project will hold its final Healing Walk of the season on Friday from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
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TOWNSHEND — Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital has received an $18,900 grant from the Vermont Buildings and General Services “Building…
BRATTLEBORO — Chroma Technology is growing Farm to School programs across the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union (WNESU) this school year by …
In the hopes that we all might be reminded of the people who continue to work through a global crisis at great personal risk to keep our commu…
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Brattleboro Union High School hosts Bellows Falls during a field hockey match on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.
Students from Putney Central School put on their orange while making a heart on the school’s field during a Unity Day celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Unity Day is a day to wear orange to show support for kindness, inclusion and acceptance.
Shanta Lee Gander, of Brattleboro, Vt., reads a poem written by Lucy Terry Prince, considered the nation’s first African American poet(,) during an event to honor the new historic site marker of the couple at the Vermont Welcome Center, in Guilford, Vt., on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021.
Community members and local officials gather at the Vermont Welcome Center, in Guilford, Vt., on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, to honor the new historic site marker for Lucy Terry Prince, considered the nation’s first African American poet, and her husband Abijah Prince.
As the temperatures drop, park maintenance workers with the Brattleboro Recreation Department prepare the ice at the Nelson Withington Skating Facility as they plan to have it open to the public by Saturday, Oct. 23. The first public ice skating will be at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
There has been extensive media attention over the past week devoted to mixing of COVID-19 vaccines and booster injections. As expected, those individuals in test trials that received a mix of vaccine types or additional shots have shown no adverse events. The vaccines are safe and interchang…
Governor Phil Scott on Monday lifted all COVID-19 restrictions in Vermont, as the state became the first in the nation to vaccinate 80 percent of its eligible citizens against the novel coronavirus with at least a first dose.
DOVER — Establishments in Dover will no longer need to require masks as they had before as part of the ski resort town’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Note from Dr. Moss Linder, Grace Cottage Family Health: This month, I’ve offered this space to a patient who would like share her experience with Long COVID. Research into Long COVID, also called Long-Haul COVID, is just beginning and there are no definitive answers about how to diagnose or …
BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Army National Guard held a vaccination clinic at the Brattleboro Area Middle School on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A 41-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife while the two were visiting Vermont for their first wedding anniversary.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — It will be several years before the Burlington Police Department can reach its goal of having 87 officers on the force, the acting police chief said Tuesday.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The city of Burlington is giving residents of a homeless encampment another week to stay there before it will closed, said Mayor Miro Weinberger.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott on Monday extended emergency motel housing for some of the homeless population through the end of the year and urged the Legislature to fully fund his $249 million housing recovery plan that he says includes historic funding for permanent housing for the homeless.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The incoming class of 2025 at the University of Vermont is the largest and academically best-prepared undergraduate group in the school’s 230-year history, the school says.
FDA OKs mixing COVID vaccines; backs Moderna, J&J boosters
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The Coast Guard received multiple reports of a possible fuel spill off the Southern California coast earlier than previously disclosed and asked local authorities to investigate about 15 hours before its own personnel confirmed a large oil slick, which came fr…
NEW YORK (AP) — Gwyneth Paltrow admits she has insecurities about her physical appearance in an episode of her new Netflix series “ Sex, Love & goop,” but she’s working on that. The Oscar-winner and entrepreneur behind the goop beauty and wellness brand opens up in the six-episode series…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion claims, according to a proposed deal filed Wednesday in federal court.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles neighborhood just outside the nation's busiest port complex has become a perpetual traffic jam, with trucks hauling cargo containers backed up day and night as workers try to break through an unprecedented backlog of ships waiting to unload.
In collaboration with the Complications Company, the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment with a serious analysis of the suffrage movement’s virtues and flaws.
BENNINGTON — Vermont painter Tony Conner is always finding new approaches to his art.
BRATTLEBORO — GennaRose Nethercott will be leading two writing workshops at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery on Sunday, Oct. 24 and Sunday, Oct. 31 from 2 to 4 p.m.
BRATTLEBORO — Vocalist Jay Clayton will appear live at the Vermont Jazz Center at 8 p.m. Saturday as part of a tour celebrating her 80th birthday.
NEWFANE — Local novelist and short story writer Vincent Panella's reading at the Moore Free Library in Newfane Thursday has been canceled.
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BRATTLEBORO — That his name is Scott Sparks gives you much of what you need to know about him.
WESTMINSTER — Bellows Falls cross-country runner Stephanie Ager won Tuesday's Southern Vermont League girls varsity race in a time of 19:21. R…
FAIR HAVEN — The Bellows Falls varsity football team trumped Fair Haven 56-0 on Friday night.
BRATTLEBORO — Peter-Owen Hayward of Brattleboro recently joined the rest of his Syracuse University 2020 graduating class in celebrating the granting of their degrees ceremony, which had been postponed for a year and a half due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CASTLETON — This year’s Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl football game between the top graduated seniors from Vermont and New Hampshire is being held on Saturday, Aug. 7, with a 12:30 p.m. kickoff at Castleton University’s Dave Wolk Stadium.
BRATTLEBORO -- Effective November 14 at 10 p.m. the Brattleboro Recreation and Parks Department will be suspending all recreational sports programs, including organized and/or informal recreational youth and adult league sports, practices, games, and the opening of the Nelson Withington Skat…
BRATTLEBORO — Fast. Dangerous. Accurate. Clutch. Consistent.Those might be the best ways to describe each of the Brattleboro Reformer's five athlete of the week nominees, which include one …
BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro varsity football team's 13-game winning streak came to a sudden end on Friday night.The defending state champion Colonels, who ran the table last season and were …
THETFORD — Bellows Falls junior Abby Broadley won the girls 5k cross-country race at Thetford in a time of 20:00 on Thursday.Stephanie Ager (3rd), Lily Ware (5th) Molly Hodsden (7th) and …
TOWNSHEND — The Brattleboro varsity boys soccer team won its third straight game, defeating Leland & Gray 5-1 on Thursday.Riley Barton poked a shot past BUHS goalie Paul McGillion to give …
BRATTLEBORO — The Three Mask-eteers?Wearing facial coverings, Josh Curtis, Thad Sawyer and Trinley Warren all caught a touchdown pass as the Brattleboro varsity 7-on-7 touch football team …
“There is hope everywhere,” concludes Suzanne Simard, in a recent interview with On Being with NPR host, Krista Tippet.
As is often the way, Vermont boasts some of the most forward-leaning voter access laws in the country. Early voting, mail-in voting, and more are all initiatives that the state has undertaken to expand to all eligible voters their constitutional right to cast a ballot and lend their voice to…
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