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...
Clothing and textiles featured at the Vermont Historical Society Museum in Montpelier.
MONTPELIER- A Vermont governor, not a first lady, wore a gown to the inauguration for the very first time in 1985. Throughout her decades long career, former Vermont governor, Madeline Kunin, broke this and many other barriers for women in politics. A new exhibition at the Vermont History Museum...
Wilmington Town Nurse Jennifer Fitzgerald
Note: This is the first in a series of articles about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily life for people in the Deerfield Valley.
WILMINGTON - “My job has changed,” says Wilmington Town Nurse Jennifer Fitzgerald of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her work....
BRATTLEBORO- Retreat Farm, the 600 acre, nonprofit property that is dedicated to connecting people to the land and to one another, is receiving a $40,000 historic places planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will fund the planning for permanent interpretive...
DOVER- Sandy and Eddie Barber, longtime attendees of the RSVP Wilmington Bone Builders group, lost their home in a devastating fire earlier this summer. When news of the fire reached this group, they met and formed a plan to recognize and honor the Barbers for their many years of devotion to the...