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Brattleboro Water Main Flushing Schedule Fall 2020

by Not Signed In | Town News

Utilities Division crews will start Fall Flushing of the Town water mains on Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 10:00 p.m. and continue through Saturday, October 10, 2020

NOTE: Some daytime flushing will continue throughout the week of October 13th and 19th  

Customers are asked to check the flushing schedule closely as flushing causes water discoloration, low water pressure and in some areas, intervals of no water.

Please note that water main flushing will occur at night and during the day.

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 14, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/14/20

Monday, September 14, 2020

4:30 am All Things LGBTQ – News 8/25/20
5:30 am Doing Life – 202 – Culture in the Verse
6:15 am The Loons At Lowell Lake – Jane MacKugler
7:00 am GMALL Lectures – “Women Take Wilson”
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Historical Society presents – John Carnahan and the Brattleboro Historical Society Origins Story

On Reading All of The Decameron

by Lise | Books, Culture

There are a number of conundrums about Boccaccio’s Decameron – a collection of bawdy tales set in the Plague year of 1348 – that can’t be solved by reading it. How was it written? Why was it written? For whom was it written? And what has made it so enduring?

For starters, we know that it was written between 1349 and 1353 – nearly 100 years before the invention of the printing press, meaning that all 600 printed pages were originally hand-written with a quill pen. Furthermore, it contains precisely 100 “tales,” plus another dozen or so interstitial chapters that tell the overarching story of 10 young noble persons, seven women and three men, each telling a tale a night for 10 nights. It is a very long book, designed to while away the hours during oh, I don’t know, voluntary isolation as a result of a major epidemic of a potentially fatal disease…

Brattleboro Selectboard Meeting Agenda and Notes – September 14, 2020

by cgrotke | Town News

Five proposals for community safety review facilitation have been received, twenty six applications to be on the committee are in hand, and the perhaps re-organized Brattleboro Selectboard will decide next steps at their next Tuesday meeting. Committee members will be interviewed and appointed at a special meeting.

Grants and bid awards are also on the agenda, as is the purchase of a new salt shed. You can add other items not on the agenda during public participation.

The Vermont Way

by RDavis | Living

It was a small event in the overall scheme of things. But small events are what our daily lives are made of. When those events take on special meaning our lives become richer.

Labor Day and the heavy traffic of years past as cars streamed down Weatherhead Hollow Road in Guilford on their way to the Guilford Fair was replaced with silence. A few cars trickled by and I’m sure that “the hollow” missed the echoes of loudspeakers calling for the horse show entrants or for announcers telling the hillside crowd how far the horses had pulled the stone boat.

I was taking an afternoon nap in my hammock when my wife Roberta summoned me to the road in front of our house. It was a windy day and a large tree branch had fallen across the road, only allowing for one car at a time to barely pass.

Brattleboro Paving Schedule September 2020

by Not Signed In | Town Plan

September 9, 2020

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Monday, September 14th, DMI Paving (a contractor of the town) will begin the paving portion of our annual capital paving project. Weather permitting, the following schedule is anticipated:

Monday, September 14

BPD Driveway – Shim and pave the driveway into the police department. 

Preston Parking Lot – Preparation and shim work. The parking lot will be closed to parking. Please seek alternate parking locations. 

Brattleboro Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes Due

by Not Signed In | Town News

The first installment of the 2020 Brattleboro Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes will be due on September 15, 2020.  Payments made after September 15, 2020 will have an additional 1% interest added to the unpaid balance.

Payments can be mailed to the Town of Brattleboro, 230 Main Street, Suite 111, Brattleboro VT 05301. Payments can also be made by dropping an envelope containing your check (no cash) into a locked “mailbox” labeled “Town Business” in the parking lot behind the Municipal Center. An official postmark of September 15, 2020 will be considered on time for tax payments. Please include the quarterly payment stub to ensure your payment is applied properly

September 14, 2020 Planning Commission Meeting Agenda

by AGPlanning | Town Plan

Brattleboro Planning Commission

Monday, September 14, 2020

6:00 P.M.

NOTE: Per the “Stay Home – Stay Safe” order issued by Governor Scott, this meeting will be held with no physical location using Zoom.

Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

Brattleboro Food Co-op Announces Voter Registration Event on September 22

by Lise | Politics

According to their recent press release, the Brattleboro Food Co-op will be participating in National Voter Registration Day on Sept 22. They’ll be in front of the Co-op from 10 am – 2 pm with both paper and touchless options for those who would like to register to vote. Staff are being trained by the Brattleboro Town Clerk.

Says the Co-op: “Did you know that 1 in 4 people are not registered to vote? Did you know that many young folks, people who have moved and those who recently changed their name have issues with registering?”

The Co-op plans to do its bit in this annual effort to help people register to vote.

Progressive Party Candidate Cris Ericson, on Nov. 3 Ballot, Asks You To View Her Videos!

by CrisEricson2016 | Politics

Hi! I’m on the Nov. 3, 2020 official election ballot! I am on the ballot for 5 statewide offices which no one ran against me for, no one opposed me. The Nov. 3, 2020 official candidate list is on the VT Secretary of State website.

https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/election-info-resources/

ALL NEW VIDEOS!!! If you thought I really spoke my mind out loud before, wait till you hear what I have to say now!

BCTV Schedules – Week of September 7, 2020

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/7/20

Monday, September 7, 2020

4:00 am All Things LGBTQ – News 8/25/20
5:00 am PR Benefits – Episode 15 – Felicia Knight
5:30 am Brattleboro Rotary Club Speaker Series – Episode 15 – Stephanie Greene
6:00 am Camp Meade Summer Music Series – Reid Parsons Band 2
7:30 am Here We Are – with guest Lise Sparrow