Brattleboro Senior Meals
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu February 4 to February 8
Feb. 4 American Goulash
Green Beans
Garlic Bread
Mango
Guilford Play Auditions Feb 9 & 12
PLAY AUDITIONS IN GUILFORD
Guilford Center Stage announces open auditions for its spring production of Alice, a musical play directed by Richard Epstein. There will be two sessions of auditions: Saturday, February 9, from 10 am to 1 pm, and Tuesday, February 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford.
Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee Meeting Agenda
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee will meet on Thursday, February 7, 2019, at 5:30pm in the Cusick Conference Room (2ndfloor) of the Windham Regional Career Center, located at 80 Atwood Street.
If You Want to Save Your Ash Trees, Now is the Time to Act
Emerald ash borer is here. Infestation has been verified 20 miles away. It is a killer; now is the time to vaccinate any ash trees you want to save, because by the time you find the pretty green insect on your tree, or notice the damage, it will be too late. Infested trees die from the top of the crown down; by the time you can see from the ground that you have damage, the tree will be too far gone to save.
How do I know if I have ash trees?
BCTV Schedules – Week of 2/4/19
BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 2/4/19
Monday, February 4, 2019
5:00 am Townshend Stone Arch Bridges – Townshend Stone Arch Bridges
6:40 am Landmark Broadcasters – “Finn”tastic News – Ep 3 (J-Term 2019)
6:55 am Snowboarding in Southern VT – Brian Knight
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Poets Speak – Conversations with VT Poet Laureate Chard deNiord – Partridge Boswell
Auxiliary Sweetheart Dinner/Dance at the VFW. Public Welcome. Colt 45 Band!
Saturday, Feb. 9th the VFW Post #1034 Auxiliary will be having a sweetheart dinner & dance. Stuffed pork loin, mashed potato, butternut squash, rolls, butter & dessert will be the menu. Doors open at 5 pm, dinner will be served at 6 pm. Cost is $10 per person for the dinner/dance, or $5 for the dance only after the meal is over. Colt 45 Band will start playing at 7 pm.
Humanitarian America Takes Out Venezuela
Ever since Trump was elected president, people have been casting aspersions at Russia for their alleged interference in that election. With the attempted coup now underway in Venezuela, we have an example of how the United States does interference — when they don’t like the result of another country’s elections, they just destabilize the government and install their own guy. In the case of Venezuela, the U.S. has been trying to take out their government since at least the time of Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, going so far as to pull a military maneuver in which Chavez was briefly kidnapped. Chavez survived that attempt. Now it’s Maduro’s turn.
The MILES Band at Next Stage on Saturday, February 9
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present a dance party/concert featuring The MILES Band at Next Stage on Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 pm. Next Stage rolls back its portable front row risers to double as a dance hall and concert venue, with a spacious dance floor between the stage and raked theater seating, for this special evening of funk, soul, rock & roll, folk/rock and reggae classics and contemporary hits.
VFW $6 Lunch Specials Open to the Public 2-4 to 2-8
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road is open to the public for lunch. Lunch is served Mon-Fri from 11:30 – 1:30. Specials listed below are only $6 a plate. Hand made burger, fries, sweet potato fries, wings, onion rings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 257-0438
Mon – beef stroganoff over noodles w/ salad
Quest for Eagles: Wildlife Photography from Brattleboro & Beyond
View the raptors and wildlife of Brattleboro through photographic images at the Brooks Memorial Library from February 26th through March 22nd. Photographs, by Dara Carleton Wildlife Photography, will include bald eagles, ospreys, cormorants, song birds, small critters, and water fowl images all taken within a 30 minute drive from Brattleboro. Come view the bald eagles and wildlife that’s right in your backyard! Opening reception will be Wednesday February 27th from 5-7pm.
Brattleboro Selectboard Agenda and Notes – February 5, 2019
Will Brattleboro Town Manager Peter Elwell get a five year contract extension? Most likely, at the next regular meeting of the Brattleboro Selectboard.
A hearing on modified parking, some VCDP grants, and the scheduling of informational meetings for Representative Town Meeting representatives will occur. There is also one item on the agenda purely for the sake of not having it on the agenda any longer. You can, as always, bring up other matters not on the agenda during public participation.
Brattleboro ADA Advisory Committee – Parking Issues for People with Mobility Issues Discussion
The Brattleboro Town ADA Committee invites you to a public discussion on Brattleboro Parking Issues for People with Mobility Issues February 8, 2019, 9:00 a.m. , Selectboard Meeting Room, Municipal Center, 230 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 212, next to Hannah Cosman Meeting Room
The Town ADA committee will be reporting on the difficulty of Accessible parking in Brattleboro and will be sharing possible solutions to the problems.
VT AFL-CIO Welcomes YPG Vet, Holds Political Convention
Over this past weekend [1/26/19], the Vermont AFL-CIO held its annual COPE Convention at the Old Socialist Labor Hall in the granite City of Barre. The day was spent strategizing Labor’s approaches to seeing a $15 an hour livable wage, paid family medical leave, and card check recognition becoming Vermont law in 2019. By passing card check recognition (S36), anytime a majority of public sector workers in a single shop sign Union cards, they would immediately be recognized as a Union without having to go through a drawn out and bureaucratic Labor Board election process (a process that provides anti-Union employers an unfair advantage and time to use scare tactics against employees). Passing card check in Vermont is a concrete way that Labor can begin to go back on the offensive here in the Green Mountains.
Town of Brattleboro Hazard Mitigation Plan – 2018 Progress Report
Find attached the 2018 annual progress report for the Brattleboro 2015 Local All Hazard Mitigation Plan. The report is prepared in conformance with the requirements of the town participation in the Community Rating System of the National Flood Insurance Program. CRS participation reduces flood insurance premiums by 10%.
Brattleboro Snow Removal – Downtown Streets
The Town of Brattleboro would like to remind everyone that the snow emergency ban is in effect.
Snow and ice will be removed from the streets in the downtown area this evening.
Parked vehicles in the downtown district must be removed by 11:00pm or they will be towed at the owner’s expense.
Selectboard Meeting Notes – Representative Town Meeting Meeting Warning, and Arts Fail To Get 2%
The Brattleboro Selectboard sent an approved FY20 budget to Representative Town Meeting as part of the annual Representative Town Meeting Warning.
Representatives from the arts community, meanwhile, asked that an article requesting 2% of the Rooms & Meals tax be allocated for an Arts Fund for public arts projects, $8,424, be placed on the Representative Town Meeting Warning. The board said no, telling them it was hasty and didn’t have enough detail.
Brattleboro Selectboard Candidates 2019
Brattleboro voters get a choice this year for all open Selectboard seats.
For the 3 year term, new candidate Ben Coplan will be running against incumbant Tim Wessel. Voters will be able to pick one.
For the 1 year term, four candidates have declared. Oscar Heller, Elizabeth McLoughlin, Daniel Quipp, and Franz Reichsman are the options. Voters can pick two.
Brattleboro Smart Parking Update
Brattleboro is adding new convenience features to the parking system in response to the expressed wishes of the public. The number one concern raised last year during the Parking Survey was the need to accept credit and debit cards. Once the transition is complete this new equipment will allow the public to pay for parking in Brattleboro using a credit/debit card, using an app on their Smartphone, and even with traditional coinage.
BCTV Schedules Week of 1/28/19
BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 1/28/19
Monday, January 28, 2019
5:00 am The World Fusion Show – Ep 40 – Shingetsu Billy White
5:30 am Voices Live! – The Future of Community Media 1/3/18
6:46 am Southern Vermont Live Music – Rock Voices – 01/04/2019- Let’s Hear it for the Boy
6:52 am The Rhema Word – Cure for Disease
7:40 am Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition presents – Clean the Air Pt. 2
Brattleboro Selectboard Special Meeting Agenda – FY20 and 2% For The Arts
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, January 29, 2019, in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. It is anticipated that the Board will enter into executive session at 6:00pm to discuss the employment or evaluation of a public officer or employee. The Board will reconvene the business meeting at 6:15pm. ASL interpreters will be available for deaf and hard-of-hearing community members.
