BRATTLEBORO Lily Charkey, a senior at Brattleboro Union High School, is letting other students and the community know legislators can override the governor s veto of a bill that will
Gov. Phil Scott vetoed a charter change on Feb. 28 that would have granted 16- and 17-year-olds in Brattleboro the right to vote and run for office in municipal elections.On Tuesday, Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, who cosponsored the bill with the town’s two other representatives, Mollie Burke and Tristan Toleno, said .
BRATTLEBORO—As voting rights are under attack nationally, Brattleboro residents voted in 2019 to go a different path and expand the right to vote in local elections to 16- and 17-year-olds. On Feb. 11, however, Gov. Phil Scott signaled he would veto this change to the town’s charter. Gov. .
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—Stephen Perkins, executive director of the Vermont Historical Society (VHS), will present the annual Richard O. Hathaway Award for best historical project in the state to the five local institutions that created and led the National Endowment for the Humanities–funded, multi-year Brattleboro Words Project.“The Brattleboro Words Project has created for .