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As Brattleboro EMS takeover plan launches, public’s questions linger

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 28 2022June 28, 2022

“This is a manufactured crisis,” one cardiac-arrest survivor said of the ambulance change set for July 1. “I have a sense of foreboding that our elected officers have chosen to gamble with people’s lives.”


Brattleboro amends EMS takeover plan 10 days before scheduled start

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 21 2022June 21, 2022

Vermont ambulance officials are continuing to voice questions as the town approaches the July 1 end of its nearly 60-year contract with Windham County’s largest emergency medical service provider.


Still lacking state license, Brattleboro may spend more on EMS takeover plan

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 19 2022June 18, 2022

The town Selectboard is set to consider a $50,000 addendum just two weeks before it is scheduled to drop its 56-year contract with Windham County’s largest emergency medical service provider.


Brattleboro’s Civil War monument gets a 2nd marker to account for soldiers of color

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 13 2022June 13, 2022

The new marker is set for dedication Sunday as part of Juneteenth, the date when news of the Union victory and enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the most remote of the former Confederate states — with help from some of the Brattleboro soldiers being recognized.


Brattleboro’s EMS plan lacks state license, local backup just weeks before start

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 8 2022June 8, 2022

As the town prepares to drop its nearly 60-year contract with Rescue Inc., the private nonprofit provider says it won’t respond to Brattleboro calls without negotiated compensation as of July 1.


Fisherman rescued after falling off Brattleboro bridge to avoid Amtrak train

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 2 2022June 2, 2022

The accident happened in the same place where another person was killed in 2015.


After 5 months on the job, was Brattleboro’s town manager asked to resign?

By Kevin O'Connor

Jun 1 2022June 1, 2022

The local selectboard won’t comment on whether he was pushed out, but Octavian “Yoshi” Manale’s contract and nearly $70,000 severance package offer several clues that is the case.


5-year-old southern Vermont preschooler saves his family. Again.

By Kevin O'Connor

May 31 2022May 31, 2022

Nolan Goodnow woke his sleeping household last Christmastime, saving them from Brattleboro’s largest fire of 2021. Now news of his recent national Youth Hero Award has brought him a new place to live just days before his parents faced homelessness June 1.


A preschooler saved his family from dying in a fire. Soon, they all may be camping for lack of another home.

By Kevin O'Connor

May 25 2022May 24, 2022

Five-year-old Nolan Goodnow just received a national Youth Hero Award for waking his sleeping household during Brattleboro’s largest blaze of 2021. But without another place to stay, he and his parents, sister and grandmother may be living outside as of June 1.


Brattleboro town manager, resigning after 5 months, to receive almost a year’s pay

By Kevin O'Connor

May 24 2022May 24, 2022

Octavian “Yoshi” Manale will leave June 3 with a nearly $70,000 severance package, according to an agreement he signed with local leaders.


Windham County’s EMS saga, even with a surprise resignation, may be just starting

By Kevin O'Connor

May 23 2022May 23, 2022

Brattleboro’s town manager is quitting, but the municipality is still scheduled to follow his call to pull out of the area’s private nonprofit Rescue Inc. after nearly 60 years.


Brattleboro town manager abruptly resigns just 5 months into the job

By Kevin O'Connor

May 20 2022May 20, 2022

Octavian “Yoshi” Manale sparked controversy by pushing local leaders to pull out of a contract with the municipality’s nearly 60-year EMS provider with little notice or public debate.


Brattleboro EMS feasibility study could bring as many questions as answers

By Kevin O'Connor

May 18 2022May 18, 2022

The town government has approved nearly $40,000 for an independent review of a proposal to have the municipal fire department take over local emergency medical services.


Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams eyes a new generation of peacemakers

By Kevin O'Connor

May 18 2022May 17, 2022

“Chatting with your friends is not a strategy for changing anything,” she told students during a visit to her alma mater, Brattleboro Union High School. “Change happens because we act.”


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