Letter to the Editor of The Vermont Journal/The Shopper, Ludlow, Vermont, published July 1, 2015.
“Congressman Peter Welch Gets Richer While Depriving Poor Vermonters!”
Last year
Do members of the United States Congress get special hints telling them to buy stock at a certain time, and then sell it, to reward them for voting a certain way on a certain Bill?
The Brattleboro Selectboard held a special meeting Tuesday evening to take care of a bit of regular business, but primarily to hear about and discuss the new zoning and land use regulations being proposed for adoption. If all goes according to plan, the new regulations will go into effect this fall.
The Brattleboro Selectboard, acting as Liquor Commissioners, granted a special events permit to Hermit Thrush Brewery for a Brewery Pint Night. Two actually, one scheduled for July 3 and another for July 24.
that most of the newsroom staff at the Brattleboro Reformer was laid off on Friday (June 26, 2015) . The Bennington Banner and Manchester Journal were also reduced to “skeleton crews” by New England Newspapers. Only Dominic Poli and Howard Weiss-Tisman remain–with no editorial staff.
Thanks to a bill just passed by large majorities in both houses and signed by the governor, the will soon be able to offer qualified first-time homebuyers a leg up in the form of a $5,000 “sleeping” loan.
The $5,000 assistance be in the form of a zero interest loan, with no payments. The loan is repaid when the homeowner sells their home or refinances.
In email correspondence with Brattleboro Buyer Brokerage, Seth Leonard, VHFA Homeownership Outreach Coordinator, wrote:
What is a zine?
Zines are small or mini magazines that you can create! Zines can be comics, or stories or anything you want. Make a zine about the most amazing trip ever. Make a zine about something you are passionate about. Make a zine about anything you want and it will be awesome. Two local zine makers, comic drawers, and super artists, Jo Dery and Hannah Cummins, will be there to give tips and tricks to make the best zines.
Draw your own pictures. Write your own words. Make your own zine.
In observance of the July 4th holiday, all Town offices will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2015, with the exception of emergency services.
Parking is free at all metered spaces and in the pay-and-display lots on Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4. All other violations will be enforced.
Brooks Memorial Library will be closed on Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4.
Chris Christie has the idea that it is his turn to become president of the United States.
“America is tired of hand-wringing, of indecisiveness … in the Oval Office. And that is why, today, I am proud to announce my candidacy.”
Solarize Dummerston invites you to a Solar open house gathering. *This is not just for Dummerston residents – all are welcome and all can benefit – the more people signing up the greater the savings*.
Please tell your friends, and neighbors, please share this event!
Tuesday, June 30 from 6-8pm
Dummerston Grange – 1008 East-West Rd
Love natural products?
Love hyper-local producers?
Love being squeeky clean?
The Brattleboro Food Co-op is now stocking Scrub Your Soul’s vegan castile soap in the bulk department. Fill your own bottle to wash your body, your dishes, your hair, or anything that needs washing! Be sure to request scents you would like to see.
What superhero can carry 122 times her own weight, fly 5 million miles on a gallon of honey and see ultraviolet colors invisible to us? Yes! The Mighty Bee!
Bees can buzz along at 15 mph and beat their wings 200 times per second. What do bees do with their superpowers? They help provide the world with flowers, fruit, and even chocolate! One in three bites of food we eat is thanks to these pollinators! And don’t forget honey. To make a pound of honey, bees must fly 55,000 miles and visit around 2 million flowers.
BCTV Channel 8 Schedule Week of 6/29/15 – Thank You!
Monday, June 29, 2015
12:00 am Road to Recovery: Overcoming Trauma and Violence
1:00 am VT Economic Resiliency Initiative 4/23/15
2:25 am Norwich Bookstore Presents: Robert Santulli and Kesstan Blandin
3:30 am Organic Politics: Applying for R Credits 5/7/15
4:00 am SAFSTOR: 6/24/15 – Ken Swanger
BRATTLEBORO — The “By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth” citizens committee invites the public to the town’s 42nd annual Independence Day celebration, set for Saturday, July 4, with a morning parade downtown and afternoon and evening program of family activities and fireworks at Living Memorial Park.
Some 50 marching units — including the Brattleboro American Legion and Brattleboro Union High School bands, veterans, civic and youth groups — will kick off the festivities at 10 a.m. with a parade along Canal and Main streets to the town Common.
Brattleboro’s Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, this year’s parade sponsor, will lead the march with its giant American flag, while local personality Alfred Hughes Jr. will conclude the event by debuting his annual top-secret gown.
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 Grateful Dead Rainbows:
OFFERS (i.e. things people could do for you):
Sterling Silver Earrings and Ear-wires — Entirely Handmade
for You
Tarot Card Readings
Hypnosis Helps
Compassionate Mediation
Respite Offered by Mom of Child w/Special Needs
Garlic Scapes
Thursday July 30, 10 – 11:30 am at Centre Congregational Church in downtown Brattleboro. (The July 2 sing has been cancelled.)
Wednesday July 8 and Wednesday July 22, 7 – 8:30 pm at All Souls Church in West Brattleboro.
Come sing along with your friends and neighbors under the leadership of Women’s Chorus director Becky Graber. We’ll sing a variety of songs – Broadway, Folk, Rock, Jazz, and Old time Songs of Summer – with word sheets provided.
A Request for Proposal is now open for a much ballyhooed Our Town Grant. The RFP states the grant is…”one of inaugural creative placemaking, that magnifies the role the Arts play in Brattleboro, and should inspire the community towards the imagination and creation of public art.” To these ends, I hereby submit two entries to the readers of this site, for consideration, potential collaboration and probable comment.
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Tale of the Tape
What are rCredits?
The rCredits system is a cooperative mutual credit organization providing online credit card, debit card, and cash card services.
In this economy, it’s hard to find US Dollars to pay for things. With rCredits we can fund what we need, without having to depend on US Dollars. rCredits are simply a way for us to give each other credit in our local community, so that, in effect, there is more money to go around.
You can spend rCredits and be paid with rCredits just as with US Dollars.
Everyone knows Groucho Marx, right? He and his Marx brothers made vaudeville and movie history, he hosted a popular game show as television got started, and here, appeared on the Dick Cavett show in September of 1969.
Groucho has spawned imitators. Alan Alda paid tribute to him on an almost weekly basis during the years M.A.S.H. was on the air. Locally, we’ve had stage performances of Marx Bros. movies.
A visiting American guy and Murphy go into an Irish pastry shop. The American whisks three cookies into his pocket with lightning speed. The baker doesn’t even notice. The American says to Murphy, “You see how clever we are? You Paddies can never beat that!”
Murphy says to the American, “Watch dis, any Paddy is smarter din you, and I’ll prove it to ya.” He says to the baker, “Gimme a cookie, I’ll show ya a magic trick!”
The baker gives him the cookie, which he promptly eats. Then he says to the baker, “Gimme anudder cookie for me magic trick.”
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Peter Welch today issued the following statement following the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to make same-sex marriage a right in all 50 states:
“The wall of marriage discrimination in America has finally come down. The Supreme Court affirmed today what Vermonters recognized years ago — that the quality of love between two people is more important than their gender,” Congressman Welch said.
The Supreme Court of the United States has declared that LGBTQ couples are now free to marry in all 50 states. This is huge!
A long, bitter and frustrating fight for equal rights has culminated in a victory. This is a wonderful day worthy of much celebration! Thank you SCOTUS for making the right decision.
