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Joe Thompson, an EMS stalwart for more than four decades, was posthumously honored for his service to emergency medicine at a Fenway Park ceremony.

BRATTLEBORO—Global statistics tell us that one in three people know someone who has substance use disorder, but we hear little about what happens to the families involved in the opioid crisis. In 1998, Annie Augustus Rose’s daughter revealed her struggles with heroin and that she was ready to ask ...

BRATTLEBORO—Hurricane Ian, the deadliest storm to hit Florida since 1935, struck the west coast of the state in the early morning hours of Sept. 28. Winds and water from the Category 4 storm ravaged much of central Florida. Preliminary estimates of uninsured losses are topping $17 billion, making Ian ...

BRATTLEBORO—Miss Fran, what is a pipe bomb? I was teaching second grade and was also head of the primary at an international school in Armenia, an Eastern European country, on the day this question was asked of me in October of 2020. Armenia was in a war with ...

BRATTLEBORO—The Neighborhood Schoolhouse, which had announced its permanent closure, will continue operations under the management of a new board of trustees and school administration. Ten short days after the school abruptly closed, its board issued an announcement on Feb. 15, crediting the decision to “the outpouring of support from ...

BRATTLEBORO—This year marks the 100th anniversary of not only the Harris Hill Ski Jump but the other contributions of Fred Harris to the fabric of his community: the Brattleboro Outing Club and the Brattleboro Winter Carnival, as well as the building that he built on Cedar Street. Harris headed off ...

BRATTLEBORO—When Dana Sprague began thinking of how to commemorate the centennial of the Harris Hill Ski Jump in print about four years ago, he brought some ideas to his fellow trustees of Harris Hill Ski Jump Inc., the nonprofit that oversees all things Harris Hill. “My thought was doing ...

With the frosty sound of snow beneath feet in 18 degrees of Vermont cold, three state representatives from Brattleboro met on the steps of the State House last Wednesday to honor John and Mary Carnahan for 64 years of service to community. John Carnahan, 93, arrived in town in ...

BRATTLEBORO—Around the world, as of this week, almost 5.5 million people have now died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. Each population has had its own experiences because of how governments have decided to handle both the social and economic consequences of a global pandemic. Within ...

DUMMERSTON—Vermonters have been vigilant and ahead of the curve since the COVID-19 pandemic began almost two years ago. By most yardsticks, the state has done well in navigating the pandemic, with some of the lowest positivity rates in the country, and fewer virus-related deaths than in most other states. ...