New Year’s Day Bingo!

The Brattleboro VFW will be holding a bingo on Sunday, New Year’s Day. Doors open at 12 pm, and bingo games start at 2 PM. A single winner will take home $1000 when they win the jackpot in 75 numbers or less. No food or drink may be brought into the hall, but food and drinks are available for purchase. Public is invited.

-Brattleboro VFW


Brattleboro Union High School Board Agenda

BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING

The BUHS District #6 Finance Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 5, 2017 in the James E. Kane Conference Room, 53 Green Street.

NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING

The BUHS #6 Board of Directors will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 2, 2017 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room.


Ukulele New Years Flash Mob!

Ukulele New Years Flash Mob! Sat., Dec. 31, 6:00 – 6:30pm. Brooks House Atrium, 130 Main St., Brattleboro. Accessible. Presented by Lisa McCormick. Get a head start and download the free PDF music-packet at 

FREE and open to all! Come play, sing, or just enjoy.


BCTV Schedules For Week of 12/26/16

BCTV channel 8  schedule for the week of 12/26/16

Monday, December 26, 2016

12:00 am First Wednesdays: America in a New More Dangerous World

1:55 am Improv Asylum: Seein’ what Sticks – 2016 Graduate Performance

3:30 am Stories by the Fire: It Happened One December

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:30 am Horse Pull – Guilford Fair 2016: Pt 2


Movie Monday

January Showings

HAPPY FUNNY NEW YEAR

Movies starring:

Jan 9th  Audrey Hepburn & George Peppard –9:30 am

Jan 23rd   Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton – 10 am

Jan 30th   Walter Mathau & George Burns – 9:30 am


Not The First Brooks House Fire, Apparently…

From Today’s Local History, 1879:

On Tuesday night at 11 o’clock it was discovered that fire was working under the flooring of the fourth floor of the Brooks House, about midway of the house. Lines of hose were carried up to the third and fourth stories, holes cut in floors and partitions, the house thoroughly drenched, and after upward of an hour’s work the fire was soaked out.


BCTV Schedules For Week of 12/19/16

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/19/16

Monday, December 19, 2016

12:00 am The Endangered Species Act: Putting the Bite Back Into the Law Pt1

1:38 am Express Fluency: Spanish with Elissa McLean Part 1 of 3

3:00 am Burning Books – Leslie James Pickering on Resistance to 20 Years of FBI Surveillance

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:30 am First Wednesdays: America in a New More Dangerous World


An Evolutionary Innovation: The Origin of Consciousness

While the exact origin of consciousness is debatable, and polarized on a mammalian time-chart, the fact that all mammalian creatures acquired consciousness as a datum, that is, as a fixed starting point in our brains, is not.The history of these living, yet mortal, creatures is documented by their fossils that are preserved in sedimentary layers over geologic time, where we can see (read) the small patterns to help understand the big picture, and that, is the progression of evolution. Yet, there are at least two types of mammalian evolution.

The first and most obvious is the aforesaid fossil record. That record, despite gaps, is of such an exacting nature that it is no longer considered a theory of evolution, but the established fact of evolution.


Internet Advice Needed

     I need some advice.  VTel has sent around a holiday offer.  One level of their service, the lowest, is 2GB of data per month for $10.  They say that is equal to about 10 hours of internet usage after which download speed keeps diminishing.  They didn’t want to tell me how much it diminishes.  They’re answer was, ‘well, that’s when people usually upgrade.”  My Fairpoint deal is $15/month, at a slow speed (750 kb/sec), but I can spend 100 hours a month on the net and notice nothing in terms of speed diminishing.  In fact it seems that I can spend 24 hours a day on the net, or streaming, and the speed seems the same on the last day of the month as it was on the first.


Big Tech Companies Are Messing Up

In a quest for profit and automation, big tech companies are making mistakes that matter to people using their services. Some are small and annoying; others are more significant.

Some examples:

Turn on the Weather Channel in Brattleboro and you’ll be welcomed to Putney. Yes, Putney. The Weather Channel made a switch a year or so ago and decided that the big city in our region, right up there with Albany and Burlington, is Putney.

LinkedIn makes sure to tell everyone that employees in Brattleboro work in the Springfield area. Springfield, MA, that is. So helpful!


Brattleboro Union High School Board Agenda, Minutes, Finance Meeting

BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING

The BUHS District #6 Finance Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 22 in the James E. Kane Conference Room, 53 Green Street.

NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING

The BUHS #6 Board of Directors will meet at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, December 19 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room for a Public Forum on the FY ’18 Budget. The regular meeting will immediately follow the Public Forum at approximately 7:00 p.m.


Act 46 Minutes from Community Forums

Brattleboro Town School District, Dummerston Town School District, Guilford Town School District, Putney Town School District and Vernon Town School District

WSESU Act 46 Study Committee
Public Information Meeting – December 5, 2016 – 6:00 PM – Guilford Central School

In attendance: Beth Bristol, Alice Revis, Richard Glejzer, Amy Wall, Kim Price, Mike Hebert
WSESU staff: Lyle Holiday, Ron Stahley
Public present: See public sign in sheet

Call to Order – 6:22 p.m. – Beth Bristol


Act 46 Study Committee Meeting Agenda and Notes

ACT 46 STUDY COMMITTEE
Representing the Brattleboro Town School District, Dummerston Town School District, Guilford Town School District, Putney Town School District and the Vernon Town School District http://www.wssu.k12.vt.us

NOTICE OF MEETING

The Act 46 Study Committee will meet immediately following the WSESU Board Meeting at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at the Putney Central School.

AGENDA

I. CALL TO ORDER – immediately following the WSESU Board meeting (at approximately 7:30 p.m. – Alice Laughlin, Committee Chair

II. REVIEW, PRIORITIZE AND ESTABLISH DESIRED OUTCOMES FOR MEETING BY CHAIRPERSON.


BCTV Schedules For Week of 12/12/16

Monday, December 12, 2016

12:00 am In Loving Memory of James Banslaben 11/20/16

1:12 am Burning Books – Leslie James Pickering on Resistance to 20 Years of FBI Surveillance

3:00 am Making it Work in Windham County 11/15/16

4:30 am Open Studio: BASIC Skatepark Fundraising 11/3


Ethan and Ira Allen at the VASS Conference

This week BAMS students traveled to Burlington to present our podcast to the Vermont Alliance for Social Studies Conference at the Hilton. Ethan and Ira Allen were sketchy land speculators during the 1770’s, as well as, Vermont independence heroes. This is the story…


44th Christmas at Christ Church: “O, Happy Yule!”

Friends of Music at Guilford’s 44th annual holiday program at Christ Church, the iconic New England landmark along Rt. 5 in Guilford, Vt., is set for December 16 and 17. Performances on Friday at 7:30 and Saturday at 4:00 p.m. will include vocal music, instrumental interludes, a holiday story, and a brief carol sing, the  traditional format. The “O, Happy Yule!” subtitle refers to this season’s thematic choice of Music from the British Isles.

The Guilford Chamber Singers, under the direction of Tom Baehr for a fifth season, present ten a cappella seasonal songs from England, Ireland, and Wales. These span several centuries and are interspersed with instrumental selections played by the Guilford Chamber Players under the direction of Amy Cann.


Making Connections Conference Welcomes Stern Center Professional

Brattleboro, VT- On November 5, the Brattleboro Area Early Childhood Educators hosted the Making Connections Conference at Brattleboro Retreat. Professional learning providers from around the state shared their expertise through workshops covering a variety of topics, thereby enhancing the knowledge of roughly 80 Vermont early childhood providers and educators. Funded by the generous support of the Turrell Fund, Karen Rodgers, a Speech Language Pathologist at the Stern Center for Language and Learning, was able to provide two valuable workshops to these educators.


BCTV Schedules For Week of 12/5/16

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/5/16

Monday, December 5, 2016

12:00 am Deep Change for Climate Justice

1:30 am Mongolian Music and Dance- 10/29/16

3:30 am Western Bombs-Eastern Societies: Destruction of Nations and Humanitarian Interventionism

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:30 am The Next Chapter – An Exploration of Caregiving