BRATTLEBORO-Last week, the Vermont Legislature adjourned after passing a controversial education reform bill that many...
WINDHAM-Approximately 40 people gathered at the Windham Meeting House on June 17 for "What's Possible,
BRATTLEBORO-Three school districts will begin their summer meals programs, distributing free, weekly meal kits to...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced...
A federal agency has found more deficiencies at the Brattleboro Retreat and has given the hospital 45 days to make more improvements. If the psychiatric hospital is not in compliance by the next visit from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), it could lose its Medicare provider agreement and federal funding, according to a statement from the Vermont Department of Mental Health. However, the Retreat is not in immediate jeopardy of losing funding. The last CMS survey was conducted on...
Part-time Dummerston resident Jessica Baylis Bousfield, who lived between 1891 and 1996, was a devotee of the theater. And an assiduous collector. The five volumes of her scrapbooks and diaries, containing rare playbills and reviews of plays she attended between 1912 and 1933, are on display this month at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. Bousfield and her husband, Harold, bought approximately 100 acres of land in Dummerston in 1939 and lived there part-time until Harold's death in 1970. They...
With Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 2, rapidly approaching, the voters of Athens will be asked to elect town officials. I will support Matt Perry as road commissioner and Janet Perry for Selectboard. Matt has been a road employee in Athens for the past 23 years. He was elected road commissioner in March 2019, when the road commissioner at that time retired. Since Matt's promotion to road foreman and becoming road commissioner, you may have noticed great improvements in the...
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