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Loss And Gain

by RDavis | Op/Ed

It’s helpful to check in and try to understand your place in the universe every so often. It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day madness of the world and move around less thoughtfully than is healthy for us. Taking time to just sit back and reflect can be a form of self-guided therapy.

The older we get the more the ledger moves toward loss and away from gain. As the decades roll by it seems as if we are climbing some sort of imaginary hill adding years and experience to our working and personal lives.

Of course making generalizations is always dangerous and what I am talking about is the perspective from my little corner of the world. There comes a point where the scales seem to tip more toward loss than gain. The changes are subtle at first.

June 21, 2023 Brattleboro Development Review Board Agenda

by bbannon@brattleboro.org | Town News

Call to Order
Review and Approve Minutes of previous meeting.
Review of Cases/Public Hearings to be reviewed under the Brattleboro Land Use Regulations as warned on October 12, 2015.
2023-56                Todd Darrah; Rural Business District; request for Flood Hazard, Conditional Use & Site Plan Approval to construct three cottages for a motel use by 487 Marlboro Road; Tax Map Parcel #00060163.100

Eowyn Jakub on “Here We Are”

by Wendy O'Connell | Arts

Eowyn loves Circus! Since age 5, Eowyn has been on the ropes…..and the tramp and the silks and more. Now 13, she looks forward to every session and performance with NECCA (New England Center for the Circus Arts).

BCTV Schedule Week of May 29, 2023

by BCTVProg | Media

Monday, May 29, 2023

5:15 am Jamaica Selectboard – Jamaica SB Mtg 5/22/23

7:00 am Brattleboro Planning Commission – Brattleboro PC Mtg 5/15/23

8:00 am The David Pakman Show – The David Pakman Show – Weekly Broadcast

9:00 am Guilford Selectboard – Guilford SB Mtg 5/22/23

11:00 am Dummerston Selectboard – Dummerston SB Mtg 5/17/23

Memorialize USA Lies About Each Mistaken Undeclared War Americans Remembered Today Gave Their Lives

by jay janson | Op/Ed

‘Decoration Day,’ a day to decorate the graves of soldiers, who died fighting on either side of the American Civil War is the origin of today’s (changed name) ‘Memorial Day.’ Because America’s subsequent wars have been in other people’s countries, the compassionate idea of a day dedicated to the families and friends decorating the graves in remembrance of loved ones, who were soldiers of either side in a past war, is lost, since one side’s soldiers were not Americans.

So, for instance, loving commemoration of the death of fifty-eight thousand American soldiers during the American war in Vietnam, is not accompanied by commiseration for Vietnamese family and friends remembering their more than a million Vietnamese soldiers who perished in America’s war in their country,

Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series to Present a Dance Party with Salsa Ensemble LPT & Reggae Band The Human Rights

by hahrenholz | Music

The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents a salsa and reggae dance party with Jacksonville, FL-based 10-piece salsa ensemble and Toronto-based modern roots reggae band The Human Rights, on Saturday, June 24 at 6:00 pm at The Putney Inn, 57 Putney Landing Rd, in Putney, VT.

“This is one we’ve been dreaming about – a double bill with a reggae band and a 10-piece Salsa orchestra,” says Keith Marks, Executive Director of Next Stage Arts. “The double bill showcases a lot of Caribbean influences in one day of dancing and fun. LPT was meant to perform in March of 2020, and with a lot of stops and starts, we’re glad to be able to pair them with our Reggae friends to the north.”

Brattleboro Planning Commission Meeting: June 5, 2023 at 6:00 pm

by planning | Town Plan

6:00 Call to Order

6:00 – 6:05 Announcements

6:05 – 6:10 Minutes of May 15, 2023 and May 17, 2023
Discussion of Edits, Motion to Approve

6:10 – 6:30 Windham Regional Commission Consultation
Guest: Sue Westa, Associate Director, Windham Regional Commission
Discussion of local planning needs, Town Plan implementation, and how the Windham Regional Commission can be of assistance.

Brattleboro-Hinsdale Bridge Construction Update May 26, 2023

by Not Signed In | Hinsdale

TRAFFIC IMPACT: The planned closure for Vermont Route 142 is scheduled to be implemented on Tuesday morning, May 30, 2023 at 7 a.m. Until then, intermittent flagging operations and single lane closures will be encountered during working hours from the intersection with Royal Road and north, allowing for the entering/exiting of construction equipment to the work zones.

VT 142 will be closed for 90 days beginning north of the access to Royal Road to just south of the access to 28 Vernon Street. Flaggers will be present at both ends of the closure to assist construction vehicles into the work zone and to facilitate local traffic access to 28 Vernon Street as needed.

BCTV, Town of Brattleboro Win National Video Awards

by BrattleboroTV | Media

Brattleboro Community TV (BCTV) and the Town of Brattleboro each received a 2023 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels.

BCTV was recognized for “Overall Excellence in Public Education or Government (PEG) Access.” The award honors all of the programming of the station, not just one show. BCTV won the national award for coverage of community programming in 2022 in the budget category of $300,000 or less after submitting a 20-minute montage of videos produced by staff and volunteers. This is the fifth time BCTV has won the overall award. Staff will attend the awards ceremony on June 28, 2023 in Brooklyn, NYC.

Green Mountain Stories – Live at the Library

by BrattleboroLitFest | Books

On May 30 at 7:00 pm, the Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brooks Memorial Library and the Words Trail will celebrate live the newly released collection of short stories by Brattleboro author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman with her initially intended title Green Mountain Stories.  

Published originally in 1887 as A Humble Romance and Other Stories, this new edition features an introduction and critical commentary by Freeman scholar Brent Kendrick, who will talk about Mary and the book. Mary was inspired to become a writer in high school…she would go to her father’s dry goods shop in downtown Brattleboro every day after school, which was fortuitously located next door to a bookstore. She graduated from high school in Brattleboro and later moved away after her father died, but she maintained her connection to Vermont.

International Musical Collective Sia Tolno & Afro Dead to Perform at Cooper Field as Part of the Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series

by hahrenholz | Music

The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents Guinean musical artist Sia Tolno and international musical collective Afro Dead, live at Cooper Field on Sunday, June 18, 2023, at 6:00pm. Sia Tolno will perform both solo and as the lead vocalist of Afro Dead, which reimagines the music of the Grateful Dead in an African style.

Sia Tolno is an award-winning global touring & recording artist, vocalist and songwriter, from Guinea/Sierra Leone, steeped in Afrobeat, Afro-blues, Mandinga and Soukous styles of African popular music. Her music is both personal and universal, singing about her unique past while making it relevant to the global masses. She has worked with Tony Allen (Musical director for Fela Kuti) and Lusafrica records, and her new album is being recorded in Barcelona produced by Aaron Feder in collaboration with Slow Walk Music.

Brattleboro Memorial Day Closings

by Not Signed In | Town News

For Immediate Release:

In observance of Memorial Day, all Brattleboro Town offices will be closed on Monday, May 29, 2023, with the exception of emergency services.

Parking is free at all metered spaces and in the pay-and-display lots on Sunday, May 28 and Monday, May 29, 2023. All other violations will be enforced.

Bearing Witness, a Retrospective by Artist Karen Becker

by ann.newsmith | Arts

Bearing Witness, a retrospective exhibit of watercolors, pastels, and prints, by Brattleboro artist Karen Becker, is currently on view at the All Souls Church in the West Village Meeting House., through June 30. Becker’s artwork focuses on the beauty she finds in nature, and she represents the animals and trees that are all bearing witness to the devastation of climate change.

The public is invited to an artist’s reception on Saturday, June 10, from 3 – 5 pm. All Souls Church is located at 29 South St, West Brattleboro. The exhibit is open Sundays, 12 – 2 pm, or by appointment (802-257-4710).

Drug Shortages, Deadly Consequences

by RDavis | Health

We live in a world that has become dependent on prescription medications. It has been that way for decades despite the fact that too many people cannot afford them. And although cost remains a major barrier, people now have to contend with worsening shortages in the supply of drugs.

There have been shortages of critical drugs in the past, but it seems as though the current shortage of life-saving drugs may be showing us how the pharmaceutical industry is driven by profit while the value of human life is marginalized. Nothing new. Not exactly a revelation.

BCTV Schedules for Week of May 22, 2023

by BCTVProg | Media

Monday, May 22, 2023

7:15 am Vernon Selectboard – Vernon SB Mtg 5/16/23

8:00 am The David Pakman Show – The David Pakman Show – Weekly Broadcast

9:00 am River Valleys Unified School District – RVUSD Special Mtg 5/17/23

9:05 am VT Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel – VT NDCAP – 5/8/23 Mtg