Radio Interview for the New Journal of the Plague. Tonight’s the night! In just a few short hours, I’m being interviewed on Radio: Nursing Unleashed!”, the newest internet radio station for nurses. Keith Carlson RN is a terrific nurse leader and the host of the show. Live interview is tonight at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. Here’s the link to listen in:
Plans for the 5th Annual Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Touch a Truck event are underway. And we would love for you to participate.
This fun event annually brings over 50 vehicles to the BMH parking lot for kids (and many adults) to look at, climb on and explore. Fire trucks, police cruisers, motorcycles, backhoes, dump trucks, school buses and many, many more converge for a few hours. Last year it is estimated that over 800 children attended.
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 7:30am in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center to discuss the Town Manager search advertising package. It is possible that the Board will enter into executive session to discuss a contractual matter.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
Through most of late June and early July, it was impossible to live anywhere near the town woods and not hear the eerie call of the wood thrush. They seemed to be everywhere. For a while, believing they were rarer than they are, I thought it might be just one or two who got around a lot. But I heard them so regularly and in such scattered places — Cedar Street, Forest Street, the Retreat trails — that I decided there must be more than a few.
It seems that honeybees do not love all flowers equally.
We’ve discovered one they love above the others: globe thistle.
TEEN SUMMER READING PROGRAM NEEDS READERS!
We need more teen readers willing to take on the challenge of digging into reading this summer.
Are you between the ages of 13-18?
Then join your fellow teen readers online for a reading challenge this summer and enter to win a great prize from Brown Computer Solutions.
Date & Time: Tuesday Jul 23 2013 – 10:00am – 12:00pm & 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Come create homes for our magical friends during our Fairy Houses & Gnome Homes workshop on Tuesday July 23 at Brooks Memorial Library.
Choose from two sessions:
Session 1 runs from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Session 2 runs from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Monday Movie Matinees for Kids at Brooks Memorial Library
Monday July 22 at 1 pm
Bring a lunch and join us at 1:00 p.m. in the Meeting Room for a free feature length movie. All movies are rated G or PG and run approximately an hour and a half.
Save the date for the next Monday Movie Matinee on July 29, August 5 and August 12.
Trees threatening to crash down? Too much thunder and lightning?
I decided to calm my nerves by investing in a little paint.
I got out my ladder (July 21, 2013) so I could reach the top of the 8 foot high arch created by a the first section of a long tree branch about 40 feet long that suddenly fell (July 17, 2013) about 15 feet from where I was standing in my garden.
Hey Folks,
I figure SOMEONE here might know the answer to this question: What’s up with Barnaby’s in Brattleboro?
I noticed a “for rent” sign in their window yesterday. It seems like the place is busy. There are often people hanging out in front, smoking. And they’ve only been open a few months. I hope everything is okay with them.
BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 7/22/13
Monday July 22
12:00 am Ghostmaker – A Myth for Voices
1:32 am 2012 Cornish Fair
2:00 am FSTV Overnight
4:00 am Comm Med School: Using Stem Cells to Repair the Heart
5:15 am Climate Summer Tour New England 2013
According to Catholic belief, individuals who are not “good” enough to make it to Heaven, and not “bad” enough to be damned to Hell, get to “do time” in Purgatory where the “temporal punishment” remaining after confessing and being absolved of sin is “purged”.
In medieval times the church began the practice of granting “indulgences”. After confessing and being absolved of sin, the indulgences granted reduce the amount of time one spends in purgatory, where one’s sins are weighed after death.
The Board of Directors of Building a Better Brattleboro will hold a press conference on Monday to announce the future plans for the Robert H. Gibson River Garden.
When: Monday, July 22, 2013 – 10:30 am
Where: Robert H. Gibson River Garden, Main Street, Brattleboro
Building a Better Brattleboro is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to support and nurture the economic, cultural and residential environment of Brattleboro’s downtown district. BaBB is the designated downtown organization for the town of Brattleboro.
Contact: Kate O’Connor, (802) 490-2073
The Brattleboro Farmers Market hosts the Brattleboro Walk-In Clinic Saturday, July 20th, for a free blood glucose/diabetes screening from 9am to 11:30am.
Now in season at the market: tomatoes, zucchini, peaches, blueberries, beans and peas, fresh basil, new potatoes, greens and broccoli…
Harvest Health Coupons are in for EBT customers! Double your money up to $10 at the market!
For more information, please call 802-254-8885.
– Brattleboro Farmers Market
Southeastern Vermont Watershed Alliance’s (SeVWA’s) water quality monitoring program was begun about 10 years ago. At that time, the organization was known as West River Watershed Alliance (WRWA). This past Wednesday, July 17th, was our third 2013 river sampling day.
Thankfully the weather had calmed down a bit in comparison to our last sampling day two weeks before – though the temperatures have been extremely high. The hot, dry spell has the rivers back to more normal levels and it has also influenced most of our sampling locations’ E. coli numbers to be at acceptable levels for swimming and/or boating. There were a few sites on the Williams and Saxtons Rivers that were just above the 235 E. coli per 100 ml. standard.
Indulge your sprit and nourish your soles!
MFTP is offering a end of summer foot soak clinic.
Mondays in August (beginning August 12th) 2-5pm
Come try our half hour foot soak treatment featuring a relaxing foot bath scented with organic essential oils, herbs and salts, followed by a fragrant exfoliating foot scrub, and ending with a blissful foot massage.
Nourish, Detox, Soothe, Balance…Your feet will thank you.
One treatment – $40
Save and buy 3 treatments – $35
Call or email for more details and to schedule an appointment – info@medicineforthepeople.org 802-387-3028
As I said once before, Steve Winwood’s music and voice is the sound of Summer to me. With this heat wave we need some cool vibes.
This concert is from the Soundstage series jointly produced by the PBS station in Chicago, WTTW, and HD Ready. Original broadcast date: Sept. 2004.
Steve Winwood was precocious and is often called a prodigy. Born in Birmingham, England to a working class family with musical talents, he learned drums, guitar and piano from toddler age and began performing publicly with his father and older brother Muff at age 8. In the following six years, he backed B.B. King, Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters on their U.K. tours, and often did session work.
The Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC) will meet on Monday, July 22, 2013 at 5:30pm in the Brooks Memorial Library community room.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
The Brattleboro Traffic Safety Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 8:30am in the Selectboard meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 4:30pm in the Selectboard meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
