Southern Vermont

Kate O’Neill, MS, CCC-SLP

Speech therapy coming to valley

SOUTHERN VERMONT - Speech therapy patients in areas near Manchester and Wilmington can now schedule appointments closer to home.
Speech-language pathologist Kate O’Neill, MS, CCC-SLP, will be traveling from SVMC outpatient rehabilitation in Bennington to the primary care offices in...

Trail update turns into tussle over backcountry access parking lot

DOVER- A discussion about a planned trail on National Forest Service land and a connected town-owned parking area at Tuesday evening’s selectboard meeting ended in acrimony and accusations against an elected official.
Selectboard members met with Tim Shannon and Tom Oakley, members of the...

Track and field team on bell lap, sprinting to season end

SOUTHERN VERMONT- Local high school track and field teams are on the bell lap of their season and sprinting toward district and state finals. For the local varsity team from Twin Valley Middle High School last week was critical, with two meets helping determine who would be competing in...

Towns awarded transport funds

SOUTHERN VERMONT - The Vermont Agency of Transportation has announced the recipients of more than $2 million in federal funds for municipal grant projects under the Transportation Alternatives Program. This year’s funding will be used for all TAP category types throughout Vermont.
The...

The summit will be held at the Grand Summit Resort at Mount Snow on Thursday, May 12.

Economy conference won’t shy away from difficult questions

DOVER - Meg Staloff is settling into a new role at Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation. Her first task: coordinate the upcoming Southern Vermont Economy Summit, which will be held at Mount Snow on Thursday, May 12. As a longtime attendee of the summit, Staloff, who is in the process of...

Money to rehabilitate rentals

SOUTHERN VERMONT - Applications are now being accepted for private landowners looking to bring their offline apartments back up to health and safety code. The program is a statewide initiative called Vermont Housing Improvement Program administered by the local homeownership centers across...

A look inside the Southern VT Natural History Museum. Courtesy Southern VT Museum on Facebook

Southern Vermont Natural History Museum receives grant for trails, kiosks

MARLBORO - The Southern Vermont Natural History Museum has received a grant to implement hiking trails and establish two informational kiosks at its “Mountainside Center,” a satellite location at the former Pool Learning Center.
The grant, for $62,000, is from the state of Vermont through...

Deb Boyd, left, Deerfield Valley Food Pantry vice president; and Tony Tribuno, Southern Vermont Board of Realtors’ 2022 Good Neighbor.

Realtors donate to foodbanks

SOUTHERN VERMONT - The Southern Vermont Board of Realtors collected almost $4,000, which they donated to local foodbanks. The money was distributed to Foodworks in Brattleboro, the Putney Foodshelf, the Wardsboro-Jamaica Foodbank, and the Deerfield Valley Food Pantry.

Libraries host talks on poetry

SOUTHERN VERMONT - On Wednesday, February 2, at 7 pm, the Brooks Memorial Library is hosting the free public talk “Boneyarn: New York Slavery Poems” with actor and poet David Mills, as part of Vermont Humanities First Wednesdays’ series.
The oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United...

MOOver buses have provided 5.4 million rides in the valley since they began service in 1996.

MOOver celebrates 25 years

SOUTHERN VERMONT - Southeast Vermont Transit, also known as the MOOver, celebrated its 25th anniversary. On November 28, 1996, the Deerfield Valley Transit Association began service on four condominium routes.
On December 16, 1996, the Route 100 service from Wilmington to Mount Snow and...