It is the Christmas fad this year, after all, so why not stop downtown and pick up a Mexican Feather Card for someone you love? They are very affordable, and everyone wants one.
While there, you might consider a celluloid booklet or two as well.
At Geo. A Briggs & Co.’s, for the 1889 holiday shopping season.
LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE FOR JERRY CARBONE
The public is invited to an Open House at the Brooks Memorial Library on Friday, Dec. 18 from 4 to 7PM to celebrate Jerry Carbone’s work for and at the Library.
Jerry Carbone has been a leader in Vermont public libraries for 37 years. Under Jerry’s leadership, Brooks Memorial Library broadened and deepened its mission to become a community hub, a resource for lifelong learning, and a center for multimedia literacy for the 21st century.
In his 23 years as Director, Carbone worked tirelessly to sustain public and private library funding and inspired a major bequest that will help ensure the library’s continued role as a model for public library service in Vermont. He started working at Brooks on November 4, 1978 as a Reference Librarian and became the Director in 1993.
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158 families are trying to buy our government.. . .
A handful of super-wealthy Americans is in the process of buying our government.
If you want to know how, and how to stop them, let explain:
“Our 200th meeting in a row,” said John Allen, commenting on the more-than-weekly nature of recent board meetings.
Town Manager Elwell made note of an excellent audit result, in which the state’s Department of Public Safety looked at about $236,000 worth of grants given to the town and found Brattleboro to being looking good. All praise to Grants Manager Kim Ellison.
In response to public inquiry, Elwell said the engineer looking into downtown traffic flow for cars and pedestrians should have results for the town soon, and that favorable bids had been received for the Green Street retaining wall project, to be discussed at next week’s (201st) meeting of the Brattleboro Selectboard.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 – The Vermont congressional delegation – Sen. Patrick Leahy (D), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and Rep. Peter Welch (D) – announced Tuesday that they have called upon the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to improve public input on proposed changes to nuclear plant decommissioning regulations.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who serves on the Senate energy and environment committees, led the effort which urged the NRC to hold public meetings in each state where a nuclear power plant is currently being decommissioned and to extend the deadline for public comments.
Here is an ad that tells us much about its time and place. It’s December 1869, and Clark & Willard have opened up at a new location. They have holiday goods, confectionery and fruit, and unsettled accounts to announce.
The new location is a result of a fire at the previous location, and the ad uses quite a bit of valuable space to mention a reward for returning a “valuable cat.”
Please take notice that Brattleboro Museum & Art Center whose address is 10 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, VT is applying to the Vermont Brownfields Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. §6641 et seq.) in connection with the redevelopment of property known as 11 Arch Street in the Town of Brattleboro.
A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the Brattleboro Town Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier.
Guilford, Vt. – Friends of Music at Guilford’s 43rd Christmas at Christ Church program is set for December 11 & 12, Friday at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday at 4:00. These annual gatherings feature both choral and instrumental Christmas music, a story, and a short carol-sing.This year’s program includes an eclectic selection of songs, both sacred and secular, to bring in the holidays. Under the direction of Tom Baehr, the Guilford Chamber Singers present perennial favorites “Carol of the Bells” and “Deck the Halls” with much earlier carols from the 14th to the 17th centuries.
To these are added contemporary pieces “Bethlehem Spiritual” and “The Winter’s Night,” a hauntingly beautiful and evocative song that has become the group’s favorite; an entertaining setting of “Winter Wonderland” and even an arrangement of “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” “Come, Dear Children” by Alfred Burt is an invitation to participate in the season’s festivities.
BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 12/7/15
Monday, December 7, 2015
12:00 am Green Mtn Vets for Peace: School of the Americas
1:00 am William Arkin – Unmanned: Drones, Data and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
2:00 am BYS Battle of the Bands 2015
4:22 am Ezlerh: Democratic Party’s JJ Dinner 11/29/15
4:30 am North Branch Nature Center Lectures – Living with Black Bears
The investigation into the arson fire that caused extensive damage to four apartments at 16 – 38 Valgar St. continues to be a very active, joint effort by the Brattleboro Police and Fire Departments. Both agencies, along with assistance from the VT State Police, have been working persistently since the morning of the fire, conducting dozens of interviews to gather information about the incident. At this time the investigation is continuing and the agencies are again asking for anyone who may have seen anything unusual before the time of the fire or may have any information about the fire to call the Brattleboro Police Department at 802-257-7946 or the Brattleboro Police Tips Hotline at 802-251-8188.
Continuing our look at December advertising in Brattleboro, we now check in with an ad from a newspaper in 1874.
Mr. J. T. Hildreth on Elm Street in Brattleboro is offering deals on sleighs and carriages. You can stop in to get a new one, or bring in your current model for a tune up and some repairs. Buggies also available.
Reminder:
I-91 between Exits 2 and 3 will be closed to complete preventative maintenance before the winter season begins in earnest.
On Tuesday, December 8, I-91 SOUTHBOUND will be closed between exits 3 & 2 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
On Wednesday, December 9, I-91 NORTHBOUND will be closed between exits 2 & 3 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
Traffic officers will be on hand to detour traffic onto Route 5.
Ted Cruz has taken a hard line on immigration. Cruz was born on December 22, 1970, in Calgary, Alberta. Therefore, Cruz is himself an immigrant. Huh?
Lots of little changes going on around town, and it is time for us to catalog them. Here are a few to get us started:
– Robert at Zephyr Designs on Main Street is retiring, according to a sign in the window.
– Main Street has some nice, large lit stars on display at night in addition to all the decorated windows. They look to be about 8 or 10 feet across, each.
Brattleboro Time Trade: Exchanging services, creating connections, strengthening communities, one hour at a time. See below for more exciting Upcoming Events and learn what Time Trade can do for you!
How Time Trade Works: You do something for someone and earn time credits for your “bank,” which you can then put towards someone else doing something for you! It’s that simple – and amazing!
This week’s fabulous listings, brought to you from the first nighta:
OFFERS (i.e. things people could do for you):
Meditation/ Visualizations etc.
Yard Work
New Parent Support
Dog Sitting in Our Home
Spanish for Travelers Class
Help with Fall and Winter Chore’s – Many T.T Reference’s
KidsPLAYce, Come and PLAY!
Vegan Raw Cookbook
Use of Dehydrator
Use of Pottery Studio by Experienced Ceramist
Does anybody know what this beautiful crop is?
This small market and studio tour is the first of its kind in Vernon. Starting at the Vernon Town offices (at 567 Governor Hunt Rd, Vernon, VT 05354) with a marketplace of vendors offering handcrafted jewelry, paintings, quilts, jams and jellies, holiday cards, and baskets and continuing to just four open studios, this entire tour is easily visited in one afternoon. The open studios include a pottery studio, wreath maker, painter, and a furniture studio.
Bernie
the Crank
Cranky leftist.
Equality
Economic justice
Invest in America
Build homes and jobs
Stop militarism
Health care for all.
On December 3rd, the House of Representatives unveiled a marble bust of former Vice President Cheney, which will reside in Emancipation Hall of the U.S. Capitol. At the unveiling ceremony, Cheney was, in the playful words of NPR, “lightly roasted” — as though he’s some sort of grumpy though beloved avuncular stand-up comic. Courtesy, Glenn Greenwald.
