Brattleboro News

Brattleboro elementary schools are closer to buying electricity at a reduced rate after the Vermont Public Service Board rendered a decision Tuesday to authorize the installation of a 500-kilowatt solar net-metered electric generation facility on Solar Park Road in Westminster.

On Aug. 14, at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden, the Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies is hosting a regional public discussion and question and answer session regarding the process of implementing a regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.

During Friday evening's Gallery Walk, the Celebration Brass Band will be on hand to entertain at the Robert H. River Garden, home of Strolling of the Heifers on Main Street in Brattleboro.

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company continues its summer of quality theatre with the eagerly anticipated production of the legendary Broadway show A Chorus Line.

A Houston company that already sends human remains out of this world will offer the same memorial space flights for four-legged loved ones.

Officials in Guilford, Vermont, are dealing with fallout from a repair project to a covered bridge that's closed the structure for about six weeks.

A New York man who stole millions of dollars from clients by falsely promising to book performances by world-famous recording artists like Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber has been sentenced to five to 10 years in prison.

Three Brattleboro men are accused of stealing money from a Ledgewood Heights apartment at gunpoint Monday night, with one of the victims later telling police that she feared for her life.

Trespassing at the Transfer Station has become such a concern that the town will now be looking into installing lights there and surveillance cameras may come next if more security is deemed necessary.

Police in Brattleboro, Vermont, say three men have been taken into custody following a reported assault and robbery involving a firearm.

Crews in the Chester area are working hard today to recover from last night's severe summer storms.

Police have cited two Rutland parents for cruelty to a child. Rutland Police tell us the father of a toddler found wandering the streets Sunday admitted to drinking alcohol and losing track of his son.

On June 28, 10 local students traveled to Cadiz, Spain for a 15-day Study abroad program.

Amy Wilson used to visit the house at what is now 53 Harris Avenue when she was a little girl.

A panel of state Supreme Court justices has upheld the sex-crime convictions of two local men who were sentenced last year to maximum terms of life in prison.

An incident involving a sword left two men bloody Sunday night in Brattleboro, but only one of those men is facing criminal charges at this point.

The co-owner of the Las Vegas shop featured in the reality show "Pawn Stars" hopes a shopping center he's proposing will lure the long lines of tourists who visit his famous store.

"Are Artists Special?" was the title of an amusing and insightful talk that the painter Wolf Kahn gave at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Saturday.

On July 20, an altercation at the Brattleboro Retreat resulted in four staffers being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital before being released.

After what has been a very long wait for drivers who have to travel over Route 9 every day, the town is finally ready to begin paving the pot-holed roadway.