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Brattleboro home damaged in fire
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (WCAX) - A Brattleboro home was damaged in a fire Thursday night. Authorities say crews responded to the home at 166 Carriage Hill Road and found the kitchen in flames. No one was home at the time of the fire, but they did find three dogs and a...
New Brattleboro homeless shelter to replace Morningside House
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (WCAX) - The Brattleboro homeless shelter where a staff member was brutally murdered a year ago will be torn down and replaced with a new shelter. “We want to start fresh with a building that is designed to be a shelter,” said Libby Bennett with Groundworks Collaborative, the agency that provides housing, food, and wrap-around services for those in need in the Brattleboro area.
Wilmington police seek information on suspicious person involved in attempted kidnapping
WILMINGTON — Wilmington Police Department is on alert after a reported attempted kidnapping on Tuesday evening. At approximately 6:45 p.m., authorities were notified of a Be On the Lookout (BOL) alert regarding a suspicious person possibly involved in an attempted kidnapping earlier that day. According to the reports, a...
Victim of Greenfield homicide identified
GREENFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – Authorities have identified the victim in a Greenfield homicide. Laurie Loisel, spokesperson for the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, said that the body of 35-year-old Christopher Hairston, whose last known address was in Pittsfield, was found in a Chapman Street apartment on Monday after police were called to investigate a foul odor.
Amid empty storefronts, Brattleboro asks a statewide question: What’s the future of downtown?
“It does seem like we’re in a bit of a trough,” one developer says, “but I see good signs in terms of coming out of it.” Read the story on VTDigger here: Amid empty storefronts, Brattleboro asks a statewide question: What’s the future of downtown?.
Grim details emerge in Greenfield homicide investigation
GREENFIELD — In the Chapman Street apartment where Taaniel Herberger-Brown used to live, police found a partially dismembered body on Monday afternoon. Hours later, Herberger-Brown, 42, was arrested at Albany International Airport in New York, where he said he was catching a flight to visit his mother and to various foreign destinations. The Albany County Sheriff’s Office detained him.
The future of fertilizer? Pee, says this Brattleboro institute
When Peter Stickney walks along his cow paddocks in the morning, he notes the scattered patches of greener grass across the pasture. He knows what this means: It’s where his cows have peed. So when the Rich Earth Institute, a Brattleboro organization focused on turning human urine into fertilizer,...
Jonathan Elwell: A new prison is nothing new
The new prison that DOC is trying to build is not a way out of the trauma and systemic violence of incarceration — it's actually how we got to this present moment, and is a new version of the same problem. Read the story on VTDigger here: Jonathan Elwell: A new prison is nothing new.
Miss Vermont competition crowns winners
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The Miss Vermont competition earlier this month crowned its winners. Meara Seery of Brattleboro and Charlee Royer of Newport were crowned Miss Vermont and Miss Vermont Teen for 2024. Seery is a 2022 graduate of The George Washington University and works as a digital producer for...
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