Brattleboro News

Kathy Dowd, who practices holistic healing and reiki, stands in her healing room at her home in Brattleboro.

Police arrested a truck driver from Los Angeles yesterday after he literally drove over a car in downtown Brattleboro and then took off.

There is virtually no doubt that global warming exists. Aside from a few cranks and those heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, the scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing, and changing faster than ever before.

The Daughters of Isabella Ave Maria Circle No. 128 held its regular meeting on Dec.

Former Brattleboro Area Middle School coach and safety officer Robert Dykes was on Wednesday sentenced to serve 74 months in jail.

Something new has been added this year when the Salisbury Winter Sports Association hosts the 86th Annual Jumpfest Weekend Feb.

If you missed Firekeeper Productions' "The Mabel Story" when it debuted in Brattleboro last April, you have a chance to catch it again.

For more than 20 years, Frankie Vakaros has cooked pizza in downtown Brattleboro, first in Harmony Lot and for the past two years on Elliot Street.

A local man pleaded guilty to repeated aggravated sexual assault and will spend at least the next three decades behind bars.

A push being made by state representative Jeffrey Wilson to lower the fee charged per quarterly return on local option taxes could result in a significant yearly savings for the town.

After considering about 30 projects for the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Program, the town is only going to apply for nine projects to receive the federal funding.

Vernon's ousted police chief appeared before the Vermont Supreme Court on Tuesday aiming to reverse a superior judge's decision to dismiss a 2009 suit seeking compensation from his former employer for the overtime pay he said was owed to him.

Monument Elementary School teacher John Dockum appears in Bennington Superior Court, Criminal Division, to plead not guilty Monday to five felony counts of possessing child pornography.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- "Are Artists Special?" was the title of an amusing and insightful talk that the painter Wolf Kahn gave at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Saturday.

Despite Sen. John McCain's belief to the contrary, the situation in Iraq has become increasingly twisted and convoluted.

PUTNEY, Vt. -- Southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire are where police say seven crooks have been very busy.

You'd think that in the 21st Century, we could do things better than we did in the 1930's. But when it comes to train travel, that's not the case.

Jonathan Hoyt, 31, of Brattleboro, was cited Jan. 29 for retail theft after police responded to Walgreen's on Canal Street.

DUMMERSTON, Vt. -- When President Barack Obama said, during his State of the Union speech, "But to create more of these clean energy jobs... that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country," I literally howled.

KEITH WHITCOMB JR. Staff Writer BENNINGTON - A local elementary school teacher pleaded not guilty Monday to allegedly having child pornography on a laptop he was issued through the school.