Brattleboro News

According to the Vermont Department of Labor, the state unemployment rate sits at about 4 percent .

The Third Congregational Church of Alstead's Easter Sunrise Service will be held April 20 at 6:30 a.m. at the gazebo on Millet Green.

Fifty-six Town Meeting Representatives signed the petition that forced Thursday's special referendum on Brattleboro's $16 million FY 2015 budget.

On April 10, the Brattleboro Police Department responded to the Label Shopper on Putney Road for the report of an incident of shoplifting.

Standing outside Brattleboro Food Co-op during a July rally supporting labels on genetically modified foods, Sabine Rhyne declared that people "should be able to know what they buy."

Vermont's homeless population grew by 9 percent this year, according to a report released Wednesday by two anti-homelessness groups.

Big Picture Farm, in Townshend and Boyd Family Farm, in Wilmington, recently received grants from the Working Lands Enterprise Board.

There were 1,249 votes cast, or about 15 percent of the registered voters, more than the number of voters who took part in the March Town Meeting Day election.

The WMUR Granite State Poll by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center finds 59 percent of adults approve of Hassan.

If all goes well, a plan to improve part of School Street and Pleasant Street will be ready to put out for bid next construction season.

You'd think that in the 21st Century, we could do things better than we did in the 1930's.

"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.

After Whitingham Ambulance Service Inc. dissolved last year, residents raised concerns about response times since Deerfield Valley Rescue took over its coverage area.

BAYADA home Health Care recently announced that Kimberley VanderZee has been named associate director of the Brattleboro home care office.

The extremely cold winter created a deep frost this year and O'Connell knew that once the ground started thawing out in the spring it was going to cause major headaches on the town's gravel roads.

Public safety was cited as the main reason for the unexpected closure of the Interstate, between Exits 1 and 3, Saturday night through Sunday night, after "slight shifting" on the northbound bridge occurred during demolition.

Broad Brook Grange in Guilford annually awards a scholarship to a Brattleboro Union High School student from Guilford who has been accepted at a 2-or-4-year college.

The decommissioning of Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will surely be an economic blow to the tri-state region, but a group of people who met at Landmark College on April 2 prefer to think of it as an opportunity.

Police say a 43-year-old woman from New Hampshire was riding her bike at the Exit 3 Rotary when an 18-wheeler hit her.

Greta Larson, a junior from Williamsville, has been named the Windham Regional Career Center's March 2014 Student of the Month.