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BRATTLEBORO â A refugee resettlement program proposing the opening of a Brattleboro office received a warm welcome from community members.
âWelcome to the family here in Brattleboro, open hearts and open arms,â Gary Stroud, a member of Representative Town Meeting and various town committees, said Tuesday following a presentation to the Select Board.
Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) applied to the United States Department of State to establish an office in Brattleboro. The hope is to open in October.
Select Board Vice Chairman Ian Goodnow said he fully supports the project, calling it a way to âmake Vermont the place we want to beâ in terms of diversity and inclusion.
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BRATTLEBORO â Windham Southeast Superintendent Andy Skarzynski announced he will be stepping down at the end of the month to be with his family in Connecticut.
When Skarzynski first started in the position in July 2020, his wife was going to move locally to be with him.
âThose plans have changed and I think COVID really reinforced the need to be close to family,â said Skarzynski, whose children are currently in college.
Skarzynski said he has taken a job at a large educational service center working directly with schools.
In an email sent to families on Thursday, Skarzynski called the decision difficult for him. He said he was âlooking forward tremendously to the coming years of exiting the pandemic and leveraging the innovative practices that have been developed over the past 15 months. However, I have frequently used the phrase âfamily firstâ and, in this decision, I must heed my own advice and
BRATTLEBORO A task force will be taking over the study of the school resource program at Brattleboro Union High School that activists want to permanently end.
BRATTLEBORO Administrators are busy preparing for how schools will "build back better" after being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic starting in March 2020.