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The town clerk’s office in the Whitingham Municipal Center was renovated 30 years ago.
10 years ago:
Twin Valley School Board members balked at an initiative by the state to cut 2% from school budgets around the state.  Board member Doug Swanson asked if Twin Valley should even bother looking at budget cuts.  He noted that other schools had been “beefing up their budgets”...
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019 Americans over 30 years old (maybe even a little under), remember exactly where they were and what they had been doing on September 11, 2001 when they heard that an airplane had crashed...
BENNINGTON- Southwestern Vermont Health Care is offering free, paid training for licensed nursing assistants. 
Over the past several years Southwestern Vermont Health Care has trained hundreds of people to become licensed nursing assistants. Many have gone on to rewarding careers in the...

Artwork by Katherine Gass Stowe
BRATTLEBORO-  The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center presents a free tour of the exhibit Steven Kinder: 552,830, led by curator Katherine Gass Stowe, on Thursday, August 27, at 7:30 pm. Stowe will offer the tour via Zoom and Facebook Live. For more information visit brattleboromuseum.org....

Knowles Wentworth is working with local police departments to help people in need.
DEERFIELD VALLEY - The Wilmington and Dover police departments have embarked on a new venture — a police-social worker partnership. Knowles Wentworth is working with both departments, as well as the Windham County Sheriff’s Department, on a part-time basis. The partnership is supported by grant...

Gene’s Kree-Mee stand was knocked down 20 years ago after the family that owned it sold the property. File
10 years ago:
Wilmington’s Old Home Week was declared a “smashing success.”  The event brought Wilmingtonians home from as far away as the Galapagos Islands, where Wilmington alumna Sara Molina had been working.  Wilmington residents (old, new, and second-home owners) turned out in droves...
HALIFAX- Thomas and Kimberly Tefft welcomed a daughter, Evelyn Grace, on July 16. She weighed 8 pounds,  5 ounces and measured 20.5 inches long. 
Evelyn joins brother Silas and sister Olivia in the family. Grandparents are Malcolm and Monica Sumner, of Halifax, and Richard and Sue Tefft of...
BRATTLEBORO- New Chapter, a Brattleboro-based wellness company, is leaving a lasting impact on the local food system by being Food Connects highest-level corporate sponsor.
New Chapter generously granted Food Connects $15,000 in 2019. This successful campaign focused on the build of a new...

Vermont Business Magazine awards Southwestern Vermont Heath Care.
BENNINGTON- Southwestern Vermont Health Care received a visit from Vermont Business Magazine representative Jessie Swétel, far right, earlier this month. She delivered an award for being one of Vermont’s best places to work in 2020.
It is SVHC’s sixth consecutive year as an honoree, and...
VERMONT-  The Vermont Historical Society is honored to receive one of the 317 CARES Act economic stabilization grants funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities for the project Preserving and Expanding Access to Vermont’s History.  
The $133,512 award, administered between...

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