Brattleboro News

Facing a lengthy prison sentence for dealing heroin, Julio Davila couldn't muster much of an apology last week in Windham Superior Court Criminal Division.

Students at the Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales School in Bennington had a unique opportunity early this week: To interact with their home state like never before.

Tucked in the Southwestern corner of the state, Manchester is a small but mighty town.

There is virtually no doubt that global warming exists. Aside from a few cranks and those heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, the scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing, and changing faster than ever before.

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

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. , the owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to exempt it from a number of safety regulations when it decommissions the plant next year, including abolition of the 10-mile emergency zone around the facility.

Wings Director Andy Hauty says he is trying to increase the capacity of performing arts programming made available to students within the Windham Southwest Supervisory Union District.

As the Selectboard prepares for a new round of budget discussions after Thursday's referendum rejected the proposed 2015 budget, some town residents are asking the board to consider accepting charitable donations to help fund town government.

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

"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.

A New Hampshire lawyer has been appointed to lead the state's chapter of the AARP and its 228,000 members.

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.