Brattleboro News

It wasn't too hard for Vermont Foodbank Southern Region Director Maurice Casey to point out, while walking through the foodbank warehouse Friday, equipment he has been able to purchase with U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development money.

Brattleboro Police are investigating a fatal hit and run accident. It happened at about 7 p.m. on Friday near the intersection of Western Avenue and Union Street.

Icy conditions may have contributed to a fatal accident Monday morning in Burlington.

People who live near six Vermont lakes are banding together to try to focus more resources on lake protection efforts.

"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.

There is the traffic on the interstate and on busy Route 30 below, not to mention the West River and West River Trail.

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

Perhaps no artist is more closely identified with Vermont's pastoral landscape than Sabra Field, whose spare, elegant prints depict the Green Mountain State in all its seasonal splendor.

A few months ago former Gov. Madeleine Kunin was invited to speak at events in San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., hosted by Emerge America, a national political action group that trains women Democrats to help prepare them to run for local, state and national political offices.

Some volunteers are long-time members of the committee that organizes it, while others may unload boxes and unpack the winter clothing that will put a smile on the faces of the local children the Stocking serves.

The Brattleboro Police Department were called to the scene at 7:06 p.m. Friday for a report of a pedestrian who was struck on Union Hill.

Windham Solid Waste Management District, which represents 19 area towns, is proposing a 9.1 percent increase in the assessments those towns pay annually to the district.

The Secretary of Human Services wants a legislative committee to change its ruling on a proposal by the Shumlin administration that would allow more hospital staff members to order emergency involuntary medication to patients under the custody of the Commissioner of Mental Health.

Despite Sen. John McCain's belief to the contrary, the situation in Iraq has become increasingly twisted and convoluted.

Federal court document say Michelle Rutledge served as the office manager and bookkeeper for Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury for 13 years, until June.

The maple syrup farm Black Bear Sugarworks is opening its first retail location at 374 Fifth Ave. between Fifth and Sixth streets this Saturday.

But beginning next year, those grading rules will change. Producers will begin labeling Vermont syrup by description, a system The Vermont Department of Agriculture says will allow Vermont to compete in the global market.

While on the scene, police say the woman grabbed a large kitchen knife and threatened to kill herself.

Officials say the fire broke out Thursday afternoon on Ladd Road just before 4 p.m. By the time fire crews arrived on the scene the home was completely engulfed in flames and the roof had collapsed.

"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.