Groundworks Collaborative News Today

BRATTLEBORO — The accused killer of a Groundworks Collaborative shelter coordinator is no longer in need of in-patient care, states a letter from the Vermont Department of Mental Health to

BRATTLEBORO — If the measure of a person is how many friends they might leave behind, then Rich Moore might be breaking scales in heaven right now.

BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Groundworks Collaborative about $4,700 for violating a safe-workplace law at its Morningside House homeless shelter, where an employee was

Groundworks Collaborative has been fined by the Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration for serious workplace violations that resulted in the April murder of Leah Rosin-Pritchard, 37, manager of the Morningside House shelter.

BRATTLEBORO — Derek Coleman was found dead in a grocery store bathroom on April 5. Hed died of an overdose the day before. But it would be nearly July before

BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Board of Health will decide if an emergency health order on RVs used for emergency housing at a Washington Street property should stand.

BRATTLEBORO — With an influx of people no longer qualifying for emergency housing at motels through a state program, some are asking where they should go.

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — As his few remaining hours with a place to live ticked by last Thursday, Scott Alexander panhandled near a McDonald’s in Brattleboro, in southern Vermont, while running through a mental checklist of the supplies he would need for a move back into the woods nearby. He had a tent and sleeping bags for himself and his wife, a propane stove and a heater. But he needed tarps and propane, and in two hours of holding his battered cardboard sign — “Any Act ...

“It’s disheartening that you could almost use the same quotes I had from 10 years ago about what’s going on right now,” one advocate said this month while reflecting back on a continuing lack of enough shelter space. “We collectively haven’t made much progress.”

Sitting on a curb behind the Colchester Quality Inn on Thursday and surrounded by all of her belongings packed into grocery bags, Rebecca Bussard was crying. Her phone in her hand, she said she had been on hold for an hour and 20 minutes, waiting for...