Brattleboro News

The Brattleboro Retreat likely saved Paige. For most of her 63 years, she told herself she was "only a cross-dresser."

The town has approved a permit for Southern Vermont Wellness dispensary to set up shop on Putney Road.

Bennett started displaying symptoms of schizophrenia at 22. He says voices in his head were telling him "he was chosen."

The Development Review Board has approved a permit to operate the dispensary, which will be able to sell marijuana to patients on the state's Medical Marijuana Registry.

"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.

Omar Rodriguez, 37 of St. Johnsbury, has been sentenced to almost 22 years in prison for the 2012 kidnapping of two people, one of whom he shot multiple times.

Bruce Aldrich, Jr. has always been a good driver even when he had a big stable, but since he has given up training to concentrate on driving, he's moving up and fast.

The 77th annual Reformer Christmas Stocking is picking up speed as donations arrive at the Reformer.

The Brattleboro Skatepark Site Selection Committee members are developing a rating system to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of each potential location before setting out across town to start looking at potential sites for a new skatepark.

A witness in the Vermont trial of a man convicted of causing a woman's death over drugs has been sentenced to seven years in prison as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

In preparation for the two-day closure of Route 30 this week in Brattleboro, contractors and officials developed a detour that stretches all the way into Windsor County.

Strolling of the Heifers founder Orly Munzing says she has wanted some kind of a year-round presence on Main Street for a while now.

Monday afternoon Putney Fire Chief Tom Goddard was still on the site of fire that destroyed a home on Town Line Road Sunday.

Taxpayers have more time to weigh in on a regional solid-waste budget that asks for a 9 percent increase in contributions from 19 member towns.

On Friday around 10 p.m., Vermont State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on Route 9 in Marlboro at the shop.

Officials with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture are reminding farmers that the winter ban on manure spreading is in effect.

Marshall Dean has a criminal record covering more than three decades, and he's now accused of what a judge calls a "bizarre" crime: Breaking into a Putney home where police found him perched on a sink, naked and bleeding.

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

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

A 67-year-old Brattleboro man escaped injury after he lost control of his 2013 Subaru XCV while traveling on Rt.