Some students at the Brattleboro middle school noticed that black soldiers who fought in the Civil War aren’t named on a local monument. They think that should change.

The Brattleboro Retreat needs more funding but it won’t close, Rep. Mike Mrowicki (D-Putney) assured the local newspaper. If so, that’s good news – with Woodside juvenile offender center possibly closing, Vermont shouldn’t lose another major, statewide treatment facility.

Voters in the tiny town of Halifax voted 48-0 last night to leave the school merger with nearby Readsboro. Readsboro votes January 20. They are the first two towns to vote to leave a merger created under Act 46. But perhaps, not the last.

For the first time since Act 46 became law in 2015, two merged towns are seeking a divorce. So – you can do that?

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the main hospital for Windham County, lost phone and internet service Thursday for most of the day. While a hospital spokesperson said patient care was not interrupted as staff worked from paper instead of screens, a specialist called the service “seriously disrupting.”

The historic Gov. Hunt House, long a meeting place for Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant supporters and staff, was formally given to a Vernon non-profit that aims to revitalize the town that lost its biggest employer and taxpayer when Vermont Yankee closed.

 There are enough homeless students enrolled in Windham County towns for schools there to need washer/driers because they have no other way to clean their clothing.

Oil contamination, but not radioactivity.

A new public nuisance ordinance in Rockingham (AKA Bellows Falls) targets everything from drug houses to unpainted buildings. It’s not the best way to fight drug addiction, some local advocates say.

The selectboard of the Windham County town of Londonderry is discussing the benefits of the two percent local tax on commercial cannabis, should S54 passes the Legislature next year.