BRATTLEBORO — In Youth Services' latest workforce development initiative, a youth-led screen printing business [“Program helps youth build their skills, futures,” [News, Nov. 7], youth workers get paid, but their adult mentors are volunteers.
“It is actually essential to the relationship model that the mentors don't get paid, that they come to the process for the sake of the relationship and their communities,” explains Nanci Leitch, development director of Youth Services.
BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with...
BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
In 2004, Carolyn Peck created We Remember Dr. Grace Burnett, a film about the fifth woman to practice medicine in Vermont and Brattleboro's first female physician. Burnett, one of the town's most beloved citizens, delivered the filmmaker, who lived across the street from her and her family, and who employed her mother in the medical office. The film was shown locally and was eventually donated to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. But amid the chaos of renovations to the hospital campus at...
When I was 7 years old, two things frightened me about living in our small town in Connecticut: the brutal murder of Barbara Gibbons, and the wrongful conviction of her son, Peter Riley. I heard my father, the managing editor of the Lakeville Journal (which fought for Riley's freedom), discussing all the details of how the accused young man was deprived of food and water and pushed into a confession. An overzealous prosecutorial team also withheld evidence that would have...
The Northern Roots Traditional Music Festival returns Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26 and 27, with music, dance, and celebration. Now a cornerstone of the traditional music calendar in New England, the festival, directed by Keith Murphy, continues to showcase a variety of northern musical traditions, including Irish, Scottish, English and French Canadian. The festival begins with a full slate of daytime participation and performance activities at the Brattleboro Music Center, including workshops, panels, mini-concerts, a dance band class, and more.
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