The new version of iBrattleboro replaces icons for sections with new section page headers. Taking away the icons, we hope, will inspire you to illustrate your stories with images.
There are a few changes to the Sections, too. We’ve changed Kids to Family, to include all ages of family members. Recreation has now become Sports and Recreation. Police has now become Police and Fire.
New sections have been added: Culture, Economics, Living, Philosophy, State News, Travel, and The Region, including space for news from Vernon, Guilford, Dummerston, Marlboro, Putney, the West River Valley, and Deerfield Valley in Vermont and Chesterfield and Hinsdale in New Hampshire.
For those curious about the images used in the headers, here is a guide to what all the pictures are. Lise and I took most of them, but a few come from the Brain Trust.
Activism – Safe and Green march + peace march
Arts – leaves + exhibit at BMAC
Books – shelf at Everyone’s Books
Business – parking garage + Dragonfly Dry Goods
Creative – BMAC exhibit + All Night Comic Book event
Culture – Brattleboro dawn dances + 1929 garden party
Economics – downtown Main Street and a chart from town documents
Education – Canal Street school and St Micheals school classrooms
Entertainment – Latchis 4 lighting + Latchis main seating
Family – kids being monsters at Hannaford in aisle + circus school class
Food – greens and tomatoes at Farmers Market
Groups – the “25 year class” at Brattleboro High School group photo at reunion
Health – echinacea at solar hill + BMH nurses
History – map of Brattleboro from 1800’s + engraving of Estey Organ factory
Home and Garden – Habitat for Humanity frame house being built + picket fence
iBrattleboro – iBrat 2 building starts in drupal + logo
Living – basket from Save the Corps
Mazes and Puzzles – 2 of Emma’s mazes
Media – Lise starting iBrat 2 + WKVT radio board
Music – Estey organ keyboard + high school band in 20’s
Nature – flowers
News and Info – laptop + downtown on Main Street
Obituaries – flowers at Solar Hill
Op-Ed – The Dial and the Whetstone
Opinion – old Brattleboro postcard + Dial text
Pets – a pug from the Farmer’s Market and Snootch
Philosophy – West River stones, sunset over near mountains
Police and Fire – Rescue Inc raft + Brattleboro fire trucks
Politics – voting at BUHS + town meeting in the 30’s
Questions and Answers – old Brooks library statcks
Rumors – inside McNeils and the Estey brothers dressed as girls driving a car
Sci-tech – cables left by FCC after raiding rfb + Latchis lighting controls
Spiritual – a solstice yule log
Sports and Recreation – Harris Hill ski jump and CRVBL game
State News – old map of Vermont and woods near Newfane
The Numbers – Merrill Lynch christmas window + old Brattleboro $10 bill
The Region – map of area aound Brattleboro + picture of downtown Keene
Town News – municipal center
Town Plan – old map of Brattleboro + modern plan for Putney Rd.
Travel – the old Retreat touring car + train tracks by the Brattleboro station
Weather – sky over Wantastiquet
