by Aashna Kinkhabwala | Mar 21, 2025 | Community, Local government, Relocate
Above: Beth Sturgeon and Nate Fowle of Pownal. Photo provided / Bennington Banner The following profile is part of the “New Faces, New Opportunities” series for April Career Month highlighting area professionals who have recently moved to Bennington County and was...
by Aashna Kinkhabwala | Mar 12, 2025 | BIPOC Vermonters, Education
Above: Students at the School for International Training. Photo by Howard Weiss-Tisman/Vermont Public Michaella is from Burundi, and she was living in a refugee camp in Kenya when she first heard about a new U.S. program that allows refugees to come to America to...
by Aashna Kinkhabwala | Feb 28, 2025 | Arts and Culture, Community
Above: Glassblower Randi Solin, co-owner of Fire Arts Vermont on Route 30 in Brattleboro, and her assistants work on a creation that will be part of the Brattleboro Museum and Arts Glasstastic exhibit in March. Professional glass artists from across New England have...
by Aashna Kinkhabwala | Feb 17, 2025 | Outdoors
Above: Otter tracks in the snow. Photo by Patti Smith/Brattleboro Reformer First of all, thank you for reading the local news. Strong communities are so important now, and local media is an important part of the community. Here is some news from the local world of...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Jan 3, 2025 | Community, Education, Jobs, Relocate, Schools, Teaching & Education
Reflections from Southern Vermont Emerging Leader Nicole Awwad “I grew up coming to Brattleboro in all seasons with my family” Brattleboro resident Nicole Awwad, Career Foundations teacher at Windham Regional Career Center, grew up coming to...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Dec 5, 2024 | Arts and Culture, BIPOC Vermonters, LGBTQ, Relocate
Above: Musician Lutalo Jones in Middlebury. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Living in Vermont has taught Lutalo — both in life and in writing music — to keep it simple and “create space for silence.” The Minnesota-born songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Dec 2, 2024 | Business, Civic Engagement, Community
Above: WheelPad’s manufacturing facility renovation and site redevelopment, which will allow for in-state construction of modular accessible home additions, along with worker housing and a workforce training program, has been selected as one of Southern Vermont’s...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 25, 2024 | Sectors
Photo by Kristopher Radder for the Brattleboro Reformer GUILFORD — Vermont State officials have an energy problem. In 2011, the state developed its Comprehensive Energy Plan with the goal of obtaining 90 percent of the state’s energy needs from renewable sources...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 18, 2024 | Community, Relocate
Reflections from Southern Vermont Emerging Leader Katie Allaway As a high school student in Wyoming, I wanted to study linguistics at Middlebury College. I made a collage from their enrollment packet of the fall-colored trees, picturesque farms, and roads-less-taken...
by Rachel Shields Ebersole | Nov 12, 2024 | Community
Reposted with permission from the Halifax News (Nov 2024) by Jack Burnett, Peterborough, NH Passing by the old family farm Around 12:15 on Thursday, September 19, my wife Diane and I happened to be passing through Halifax, Vermont, on our way back from New York to...
