Brattleboro Town Meeting and WSESD School Board elections will be held on March 4, 2025. There are three major ways to vote in these elections.
Please note that the Town Clerk’s office hours have changed, and we are now closed from 12-1 p.m. daily.
Westbound shoulder closures on the new bridge deck for New Hampshire/Vermont Route 119 will be in place as needed.
Pedestrians on the twin bridges (Old NH/VT 119) will be able to continue to use the bridges, but should be aware of increased construction vehicle traffic through the corridor.
I told myself I was going to try to keep away from writing about the madman who is running this country. All of us have to figure out a way to preserve our sanity for the next four years and retreat has become an option for many. But the future that I see unfolding demands to be talked about because all of our lives may be transformed in ways we do not welcome.
I got a call from a woman in Florida who is married to a Puerto Rican man and they have two small children. They are living in a state of heightened fear every day and they are looking for a safer place to live. She knew nothing about Brattleboro but happened upon our little town in the cybersphere and wanted to talk to someone who lives here.
WHAT: This weekend marks the 103rd year of the Harris Hill Ski Jumping competition, the only Olympic sized ski jump in New England, February 14-16, 2025 in Brattleboro, Vermont. The event has a festive atmosphere for the whole family with opening ceremonies, live event announcing, music, local food and drink, a jumbotron and souvenirs. The weekend will serve as a stop on the US Cup competition of the United States American Ski Jumping (USASJ) series.
On Friday, February 14 ♥️, Harris Hill Ski Jump will host a Friday night target jump competition featuring athletes from the weekend’s lineup of competitors. Jumpers aim to land as close as possible to a TSSD Services logo painted on the landing to win a cash prize. The event is FREE and a thank you for the greater Brattleboro community for its continued support of the annual ski jumping event. Live announcing and limited hot drinks will be available for sale for Friday.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hear about the FY24 audit findings at their next regular meeting. They will also learn that the Western Avenue bridge replacement (good ol’ 54) is back on track with the Town paying a 5% share instead of 10% of engineering and construction costs. Brooks Memorial Library will get a $200,000 rooftop solar system, the board will be told about a video, and will approve historic markers being placed on town properties.
You can bring up other items not on the agenda during public participation. Plus, you can ask questions or comment on any issue on the agenda.
The Brattleboro Finance Committee will meet on Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 6:15 in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room (230 Main Street, Rm. 211).
The Brattleboro Finance Committee will meet on Thursday, February 20, 2025 in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room (230 Main Street, Rm. 211).
The Brattleboro Traffic Safety Committee will meet on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 8:00am in the Selectboard Meeting Room and over Zoom(230 Main Street, Rm. 212).
Next Stage Arts is thrilled to present a special evening of live music on Saturday, March 15, 2025, featuring two dynamic and highly acclaimed musical groups: Sol y Canto and The Soubrettes. The concert will take place at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, VT, starting at 7:30 PM.
Tickets are available now:
$22 in advance / $25 at the door / $10 for livestream access.
Sol y Canto: A Celebration of Pan-Latin Sound
Sol y Canto is an award-winning, Pan-Latin ensemble led by Rosi Amador (Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist) and Brian Amador (New Mexican guitarist, singer, and composer). For over 30 years, this innovative duo has brought Latin rhythms, soulful vocals, and evocative lyrics to audiences across the country and beyond.
Get ready to sing your heart out at the Putney Community Song-Along on Friday, March 14, 2025, at 7:15 PM at Next Stage Arts in Putney, VT. This fun-filled evening of music is part of the March Putney Community Supper and invites everyone to join in for a lively sing-along experience!
Led by local musician Rich Grumbine, the song circle will feature a wide variety of well-known tunes, ranging from folk and gospel to Beatles hits, golden oldies, classic pop and rock, children’s songs, and even show tunes. With over 100 songs in the digital songbook, audience members will take turns choosing their favorites, and the lyrics will be projected on a screen so everyone can sing along.
The Windham Southeast School District Independent Budget Review Committee will meet Monday, February 17, 2025 at 7:00PM at the Austine Campus and via zoom.
In observance of Presidents’ Day, all Brattleboro Town offices will be closed on Monday, February 17, 2025, with the exception of emergency services.
Parking is free at all metered spaces and in the pay-and-display lots on Sunday and Monday, February 16 and February 17. All other violations will be enforced.
Guilford Center Stage is cancelling the Sunday, Feb 16, matinee of the play “Love Letters”. Ticket holders for that performance are welcome to attend either of the other 2 shows (Fri 14 and Sat 15 at 7:30 pm.) For info see the Events listing on this site.
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present folk music duos Sons Of Town Hall and Alice Howe & Freebo on Friday, March 7 at 7:30 pm at Next Stage.
Sons of Town Hall, the transatlantic folk duo of American songwriter/author David Berkeley and British songwriter/producer Ben Parker, is creating an entirely new performance genre. Part live concept album, part performance art, they conjure their timeless mythic universe under the aliases Josiah Chester Jones and George Ulysses Brown, 19th-century vagabonds who travel the world in a hand-built boat to escape troubled pasts and search for adventure and love. Designed as a live companion experience to their gorgeous radio-theater podcast “Madmen Cross The Water,” The Sons weave their wild and hilarious stories between their heartbreaking and rousing songs, taking audiences on a deeply imaginative trip every show. Both the Sons of Town Hall concert and the podcast offer escapes from the everyday, temporary relief from the woes of the modern world. Listeners and concertgoers alike are left transfixed and transformed, in awe of Sons of Town Hall’s harmonies, and drunk on adventure and the tragic beauty of the human condition.
BAH is pleased to be offering another volunteer training for the Serious Illness Program. The training will be starting in April with days/times to be determined to allow for maximum flexibility and accessibility.
The Serious Illness Program was created to offer support, solace, and assistance to people going through a life-altering serious illness that may or may not carry a terminal prognosis.
This is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with clients who are learning to adapt to the changes a serious illness brings.
Feb. 10 Tuna Casserole
Dilled Carrots
Brussels Sprouts
Peaches
Joel “Veena” Eisenkramer has released his latest album of original and traditional music played on the 20 stringed Hindustani slide guitar on February 7 on his website, JoelVeena.com, and through Bandcamp. “CARDINAL is a sonic journey I designed to be listened to from beginning to end. I’m inspired by the popular albums of my youth and I think it’s meaningful to try placing traditional music in new contexts that new listeners can relate to.” says Eisenkramer.
Featuring 8 original tracks (plus one bonus track for those who purchase online), CARDINAL is a self-produced labor of love several years in the making. It opens with a sung poem and then launches into Eisenkramer’s original fusion track ´Resistance´, which melds the Indian slide guitar with electronic drums and deep bass. From there, listeners are taken through original music composed within the traditional idiom of North Indian raga progressing towards a full, multiple movement treatment of the traditional evening raga Bageshree. Eventually wrapping up with a Hindi version of the opening poem, composed and performed by Eisenkramer’s spouse, cultural arts curator Vidhi Salla.
The Brattleboro Tree Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 4:15pm in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room.
The Brattleboro RTM Finance Committee will meet on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 6:15pm in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room.
Welcome to the February 2025 dashboard summary. We continue semi-regular COVID-19 dashboard numbers from the Vermont Department of Health, and MA and NH counties that surround Brattleboro, as long as they continue providing them. Numbers are low, but not zero. Scroll down the new comments for the latest.
VT, NH and MA do weekly updates, near the end of the week, so we update on Fridays usually. Variant updates are every two weeks.
Jill Stahl Tyler is running for a three year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard.
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Tell us a bit about yourself. Who are you and why are you running for a three-year seat?
Hi, my name is Jill Stahl Tyler. I decided to run for Selectboard because this is my home.
When we built our house thirty years ago, we planted trees. From sapling to towering shade cover, we wanted to see them grow. Over the same decades, we’ve watched things change in downtown Brattleboro. As the crime situation has worsened, I wondered if we had to leave, and if someone else would enjoy the crisp yellows of the forsythia, the majestic first blooms on the magnolia, and the striking flowering crab apple that now spreads widely near the front patio.
At 1725 hrs. on February 6, 2025, the Brattleboro Fire Department was dispatched to 39 Brookside Drive, Apartment #3, for a report of active fire in the unit. The first arriving crew found moderate smoke from the exterior of a 7-unit apartment building. Shortly thereafter, Lieutenant Hubbard reported a fire in an unoccupied unit (apartment #3) with a possible extension into the adjoining unit (apartment #4) and attack space. With this information, the incident was upgraded to a second alarm.
The initial crews located the fire on the second floor of Apartment #3 in the bathroom area. They deployed two 1.75” hose lines to the seat of the fire while a second crew began ensuring all occupants were out of the remaining units. The fire was extinguished quickly, and overhaul and ventilation were performed simultaneously.
My name is Jane Wheeler and I am running for RTM in District 8. I was born, grew up and worked in Brattleboro. Outside of about 8 years when I lived in close by towns I have always lived in Brattleboro. I have had many lived experiences in Brattleboro- school kid, factory worker, drunk, recovering alcoholic, renter and now a property owner, addictions counselor, houseparent at Kurn Hattin, co-founder of the VT Counsel on Problem Gambling, case manger for Senior Solutions, resource advocate at Grace Cottage Hospital, caregiver for aging family members, and now as a retired older person. I have a master’s degree with the focus in counseling psychology. Informal education includes matriarchal studies and plant medicine.
