Brattleboro News

Henry Homeyer presents "No Garden Left Behind" at the Brattleboro Floral Arts and Garden Club on Monday, Nov.

Llora Kressman learned about the kindness of the people of Putney within minutes of being forced out of her apartment by the raging fire that leveled the Putney General Store.

A local woman who allegedly robbed the Circle K convenience store on Canal Street at knife-point early Tuesday morning was found sitting in the emergency room of the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital the following evening when Brattleboro Police arrived there for an unrelated matter.

When a fire destroyed the beloved, centuries-old Putney General Store 18 months ago, some people here cried.

A New Jersey truck driver involved in a Route 9 accident that led to the death of three people has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of grossly negligent operation resulting in death.

Richie Richardson, in collaboration with Dianne Horn and WVEW, presents the Bratleboro Halloween Parade & Party on Saturday night.

The Brattleboro Police Department executed multiple search warrants Thursday and Friday in the area of Green Street and the Harmony parking lot seizing quantities of crack cocaine, powder cocaine, heroin, marijuana and prescription pills.

Police continue to investigate the robbery of two Chittenden Banks Tuesday. Police don't believe the hold-ups in Brattleboro and Swanton are connected, but both may be part of regional crime sprees.

Legislators and other officials from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have scheduled a meeting with FairPoint Communications' representatives to discuss the company's bankruptcy proceedings.

A New Jersey trucker who was involved in a Route 9 crash that took the lives of three people in April 2008 pleaded guilty Tuesday in Bennington District Court to gross negligent operation of a vehicle with resulting fatality.

Brattleboro Police are looking for a female armed robber. Investigators say just before 3 a.m. this morning a woman armed with a knife entered the Circle K Gas Station on Canal Street and demanded money.

Two Chittenden Bank branches in opposite corners of the state were robbed this morning.

The Vernon police chief has been fired because of concerns about public statements he made about a sex offender living in the community.

A federal judge, citing a Vermont woman's poor health, sentenced her to probation for cashing her dead mother's benefit checks for 23 years.

Experienced Goods is moving back to its old location at 51 Elliot St., from which it moved four years ago.

The new Vermont Foodbank Regional Distribution Center in Brattleboro welcomed its first two truck-loads of groceries Thursday morning, donated from C&S Wholesale Grocers, Brattleboro Haulage and Project Feed the Thousands.

A home in West Brattleboro burned for awhile early Tuesday morning before a passer-by noticed flames and called 911.

Pallets of food were being organized and stacked Friday morning at the new Vermont Foodbank Regional Distribution Center in Brattleboro.

Brattleboro Emblem Club No. 517 will meet on Monday, Oct. 19, at the Elks Home on Putney Road in Brattleboro.

The Austine School for the Deaf has been changing from almost the first year it opened its doors.