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BCTV Channel 1078 Weekly Listing for 2/12/24
Monday, February 12, 2024
5:00 am All Things LGBTQ – Interview Show: Richard Schneider
6:00 am Brattleboro Reformer Presents – Windham County’s Got Talent 1/25/24
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Energy Week with George Harvey – This Week’s Energy News
Next Stage Arts presents Biribá Union, a dynamic musical trio featuring Grammy Award-winning cellist Mike Block, Progressive Hip-Hop artist Christylez Bacon, and electric bass player Patricia Ligia, at Next Stage Arts on Sunday, March 3rd, at 7:00 pm, at 15 Kimball Hill in downtown Putney, VT. Tickets are $20 in advance / $25 at the door / $10 livestream, and may be purchased at nextstagearts.org.
Mike Block (Cello, Vocals), Christylez Bacon (Beatbox, Guitar, Rhymes), and Patricia Ligia (Electric Bass, Pandeiro, Vocals) form a dynamic trio, blending original music with global influences to form a fresh and accessible sound. Each member of the collective brings influences and repertoire from their diverse backgrounds, such as Brazilian, Hip-Hop, Classical, Jazz, Bluegrass, Funk, and Pop styles, synthesizing them through original compositions and songs that highlights their improvisational spontaneity and high energy stage presentation.
Agenda
1. Call to order
2. Approve minutes
3. Discuss considerations and review rough drafts that are available
4. Other Business
Agenda
1. Approval of Minutes
2. VT Legislative developments affecting FY25 Budget; Review State Funding Formula updates
3. Approval of Warrants
4. Other Business
The legal voters of the Windham Southeast School District (the “District”), comprising the voters of the Towns of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney are hereby notified and warned to meet at Brattleboro Union High School in Brattleboro, Vermont on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 in the gymnasium at 7:00 p.m. to conduct the following business:
Agenda
1. Call to order
2. Approve minutes of 2/1 and 2/4
3. Review comments from Frank and any additional edits made by committee Members
4. Other Business as required
AGENDA
I. Call to Order / Introductions / Recognition of Visitors
II. Discuss and plan for district-wide candidate forum
III. Parking lot (items we don’t want to lose for the future):
BCTV Channel 1078 Weekly Listing for 2/5/24
Monday, February 5, 2024
5:30 am Red Newt Productions – Whimsical Tour of Artful Ice Shanties 2022
6:00 am At BMAC – Artist Talk: Aurora Robson
7:15 am Stained Glass Windows of St. Michaels – Week 10: St. Raphael
7:50 am Juno Orchestra – Heaven’s Border – Organum Light
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
“Art is long, life is short”. Whether with ink, paint, or words, Brian Cohen goes deeply into expressing his ideas and experiences; mark-making on canvas, metal and paper. He has visions to share and stories to tell.
Agenda
1. Call to order
2. Approve minutes
3. Discuss considerations and review rough drafts that are available
4. Other Business
5. Adjourn
I. Call to Order / Introductions / Recognition of Visitors
II. Clerk & minutes
III. Updates
IV. Wrapping up the conversation about diversity questions.
V. Bullying and racial slurs
SUMMARY:
● Student representatives expressed concern about a lack of positive student attitudes at the high school and asked for students and staff to show greater sensitivity and inclusivity, particularly to English Language Learners.
● Administrators provided an update on the implementation of two new curricula, EL (a literacy curriculum) and Illustrative Math.
● The board awarded the bid for roof repairs at Green Street School to Triumph Roofing in the amount of $322,000.
● The board awarded the bid for window replacement at The Guilford Central School to Monadnock Commercial Building Company in the amount of $362,949.
● The board approved the proposed FY2025 WSESD budget of $65,846,891. This budget will be presented for a public vote at the district annual meeting on March 19, 2024.
● The board voted to approve the proposed FY2025 Capital Plan.
● The board issued a statement regarding the Sexual Abuse Investigation.
● The board re-adopted two updated policies: D7 Volunteers and Work Study Students and F36 Student Freedom of Expression – School Media
● The Social Justice Committee collaborated with the Superintendent to write a statement expressing support for teachers to discuss the situation in Gaza and Israel in their classrooms. The board will vote whether to approve this statement at their next meeting on January 30, 2024.
BCTV Channel 1078 Weekly Listing for 1/29/24
Monday, January 29, 2024
5:00 am All Brains Belong – Brain Club: Family Relationships
6:00 am Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce – BACC Annual Members Meeting 1/16/24
6:35 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Alternate Worlds– Kelly Link & Holly Black
7:30 am The World Fusion Show – Ep 170 – Brian Shankar Adler
Here’s a little project I did to celebrate Mickey Mouse, and a handful of songs, entering the public domain in 2024.
I like to animate, and it was hard to resist playing with this early character.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – Kelly Young, Board Chair
II. Warning Article for School Director Elections – Action Needed
III. EPA Clean School Bus Grant Program Application Approval- Action Anticipated
IV. Public Comment
Adjourn
Piers Morgan interview with Dr. K. (At the time of this interview, the public piano had been put off limits by the London police, who caved in to Chinese Communist demands to silence Dr. K.)
Next Stage Arts presents Montreal-based contemporary ice skating company Le Patin Libre, performing their work Threshold at the Nelson Withington Skating Facility on Friday, February 16 at 6:00 and 8:00 pm. Le Patin Libre performed to a sold-out audience at the rink last winter. A second show has been added this year to accommodate what is sure to be an enthusiastic response to the company’s return.
A contemporary reinvention of the show on ice, Le Patin Libre company is once again sharpening its blades for a new frozen opus. Dazzlement assured.
Le Patin Libre, whose members are all highly trained skaters, caused a sensation in 2014 with Vertical Influences, a revolutionary display of contemporary dance on ice. “We take full advantage of what makes skating a unique and legitimate art form: the glide”, explains Alexandre Hamel. “The glide allows the disconnection of the body’s displacement in space from its physical movement.” A Le Patin Libre performance is an adrenalin-laced experience. “We use that rush to fuel our choreographic poetry.” The same artistic team—skaters Pascale Jodoin, Jasmin Boivin, Taylor Dilley, Samory Ba and Alexandre Hamel, joined by dramaturge Ruth Little—brings us another gravity-defying show. “Dancers and acrobats have to walk, run, flip, leap, and so on. We, on the other hand, can zoom around without moving a muscle!”
Monday, January 22, 2024
5:55 am At BMAC – 16th Annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza
6:00 am Around Town with Maria – Jonas Fricke’s Friends Remember Him 12/12/23
7:25 am Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce – BACC Annual Members Meeting 1/16/24
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Energy Week with George Harvey – Energy Week #555 – 1/11/2024
You don’t have to run away to join the Circus, it can come to you! Kevin creates original productions with kids, does Circus Yoga with all ages, and makes everything fun. He shows how anyone can be part of Circus. Kevin is also a writer of essays, poems and memoir. His Circus work has been featured twice in The New Yorker magazine.
WSESU Business Administrator Frank Rucker shared and reviewed a document: “Windham Southeast School District FY25 Proposed Budget Summary.” Highlights included:
• The Finance office recently received some new statistics and information from the Agency of Education.
• There have been some updates Mr. Rucker has received since the prior draft:
◦ The state is essentially requiring the District to “pay itself,” by making Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) pay the Windham Regional Career Center (WRCC) for the approximately 63 students that will attend. The Legislature is reviewing the funding formula.
◦ An addition of $150,000 for the Oak Grove capital project, due to bids being slightly higher than anticipated.
• The Common Level of Appraisal (CLA) statistics are fiscally unfavorable. If there are no changes, this will have a negative affect on the homestead tax rate.
