A look at how Brattleboro’s annual town meeting is planned and put together each year, with guests Peter Elwell and Bob Fisher, sponsored by the Brattleboro RTM Steering Committee
Wednesday October 13, 2021 from 6:00 until 7:30pm
Hybrid meeting in-person in the Select Board meeting room and on Zoom at
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Monday, October 4, 2021 at 2:30pm at the Brattleboro Municipal Center (230 Main Street). The Board will convene at 2:30pm and is expected to immediately enter into executive session to discuss the appointment or employment or evaluation of a public officer.
The Board will reconvene after the executive session and immediately adjourn. No action will be taken.
Information is never lost, not even in a black hole (as per Hawking) seems to be the consensus among all or nearly all astro-physicists.
Can someone knowledgeable please explain what they mean by “information?”
If that proposition is true, does it mean that, in principle, It is possible to learn what happened at any moment in the past, by gathering all the bits of information, and analyzing how they fit together?
I really do hope to read responses to this question.
Your local check of the October numbers. We continue daily and limited-weekend COVID-19 dashboard numbers from the Vermont Department of Health, and MA and NH counties that surround Brattleboro. We’ve also added weekly variant updates. Scroll down the new comments for the latest.
From their newsletter:
“We are pleased to announce the hiring of Maya Richmond to be our next Executive Director, taking over the position from Annie Guion, who has filled the role since 2008.
Maya has 18 years of animal welfare experience and has led progressive change at her previous organizations. As the first shelter in Vermont to create an affordable veterinary care program, that kind of leadership is important to WCHS. The board and staff are looking forward to expanding existing programs and creating new ones under Maya’s leadership. Animal welfare has changed dramatically in the last decade and, like most things, was deeply impacted by the pandemic. In 2020, WCHS helped a record 2,000 animals, taking in close to 600 homeless animals and providing veterinary care to over 1,400 local animals.
Agenda items:
Approve minutes
Public participation
Planting sites
Fall Maintenance
Agenda
• Call to order
• Agenda review
• Announcements
• Review and improve report for the Steering Committee on our sub-committee work to this point.
Join us for an exciting, brand-new addition to Gallery Walk’s ARTFUL STREETS – “Conversation Station”
This Friday October 1st 5-7:30 pm ! (in the Harmony Lot Green Space)
SHOPPING ONLY DAY at Swap Shop at WSWMD on Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro is here again! Saturday, October 2, 8:30 am to noon. ALL ITEMS ARE FREE. Many new donated items were added last Saturday. Photos of some available items are posted on Facebook’s Brattleboro, Vermont group page. Halloween and Christmas decorations!
SCHEDULE & HOURS:
Shopping Days- 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month
Donation Days- 2nd & 4th Saturdays of the month
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
Sept. 27 Breaded Chicken Sandwich
French Fries
Cole Slaw w/Pineapple
Pears
How Dick DeGray makes downtown Brattleboro beautiful, day by day and year after year.
The continuing thread for the little things that are worthy of noting, but maybe not worth writing a full paragraph to explain. What have you noticed around Brattleboro this fall?
Construction at Amy’s – the former bakery space is getting a makeover.
The following dates have been scheduled for Brattleboro’s curbside Fall Leaf Collection. All locations will be picked up each Friday:
Leaf Pick Up Date
ALL RESIDENTS Friday, October 22, 2021
ALL RESIDENTS Friday, November 5, 2021
Monday, September 27, 2021
4:33 am Vermont State House – Pension Benefits, Design, and Funding Task Force Pt3 8/25/21
5:00 am River Valleys Unified School District – RVUSD Bd Mtg 9/20/21
7:15 am Townshend Selectboard – Townshend SB Mtg 9/14/21
8:00 am The David Pakman Show – The David Pakman Show – Weekly Broadcast
9:00 am Energy Week with George Harvey – Energy Week #437 – 9/23/2021
10:00 am Brattleboro Development Review Board – Brattleboro DRB Mtg 9/15/21
Questions for Peter Elwell, Bob Fisher, and Lawrin Crispe for 10/13/21 Meeting 6-7:30pm (allcounted.com)
The elected district represenatives of Brattleboro’s Steering Committee members are asking the municipal manager, lawyer, and moderator about the annual representative municipal meeting. Which of the following questions do you prioritize our collective hour and half of time together being focused on?
We got the predicted rain last night. Sometime after midnight, in the darkest hours of the night, the rain began to pour. It was hard not to notice. Even the cat was intrigued, opening the curtains to look out despite the fact that it was before dawn.
BRATTLEBORO, VT—As the third and final phase of Groundworks Collaborative’s South Main Street capital project, the former Groundworks Drop-In Center at 60 South Main Street will be deconstructed this fall in preparation for the construction of a new building in its place. The design will allow for adequate space for Groundworks’ growing program staff, many of whom have worked without offices since the start of the pandemic.
The new 60 South Main Street building will be home to Groundworks’ Case Management team, Representative Payee program, and the team of embedded providers from Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, the Brattleboro Retreat, and HCRS—known as Healthworks.
AGENDA
Call to Order
Review and Approve Minutes of previous meeting.
Review of Cases/Public Hearings to be reviewed under the Brattleboro Land Use Regulations.
2021-139 Jason P. Doubleday; Rural Residential District; request for minor subdivision approval off of Rice Farm Road; Tax Map Parcels #30002.000 & 30003.000 continued from 9.15.2021
The Brattleboro Citizens Police Communication Committee (CPCC) will meet on Monday, September 27, 2021 at 5:30pm in the Brooks Memorial Library Main Reading Room.
The Brattleboro Human Services Committee will meet on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 1:00pm in the Brattleboro Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center (230 Main Street).
The American people have become pawns in a deadly game being played between the pharmaceutical industry and Washington politicians. This should not be news to anyone who has to pay for prescription drugs, especially those who struggle with medications such as insulin and other life-sustaining drugs that they have to ration in order to pay all their other bills.
News of this horrific situation is surfacing again because there are a few legislative initiatives in Washington aimed at lowering U.S. prescription drug prices. Our drug prices are the highest in the world because we do not allow negotiation for prices with the drug manufacturers.
According to the Center for American Progress, “Legislation such as H.R. 3—the Lower Drug Costs Now Act—would allow the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices directly with drug companies to the cost of drugs. The bill ensures that both Medicare enrollees and privately insured patients will benefit from these prices, and it establishes an upper limit of 120 percent of the drug’s average price in several peer nations if drug companies refuse to come to the negotiating table.”
