The Human Services Committee seeks applications from organizations focused on how they meet the many issues and concerns facing our community. The Representative Town Meeting established a grant allocation of up to $461,276 for FY 2026. Grants will be disbursed in July, 2025.
The timeline of the application process has changed from previous years.
The Brattleboro Charter Review Commission will meet on Monday, September 16, 2024 at 6:15pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room.
The Brattleboro Traffic Safety Committee will meet on Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 8:00am in the Selectboard Meeting Room and over Zoom.
The board was joined via Zoom by Sandra Cameron, Associate Executive Director of the Vermont School Board Association (VSBA), who gave an overview of the upcoming Superintendent evaluation process. The survey will be sent to the full leadership team, all three boards, and the Superintendent. Participants will be given 2 weeks to answer with additional time given if required by response rates. The goals established at the conclusion of the previous evaluation will be embedded into this survey. When complete, the VSBA will compile a summary of quantitative and qualitative information.
Public Works Crews are working to repair a broken water main on Marlboro Road in front Hamshaw Lumber. Initially water was interrupted to much of West Brattleboro while the 16” transmission main was shut down and water rerouted.
A few residences in the immediate area are still without water while the emergency repair work continues. We expect to have water restored to all customers by 7:00 AM.
I was at the DMV this summer helping a friend with some car stuff. While waiting, I re-read the Vermont driver’s handbook. You know the one – it is the guide that you study so you can pass your written test and know all of Vermont’s rules of the road.
Most things looked familiar but I was struck by one item that seemed a bit different than when I learned to drive. I was taught to keep three seconds between the car being driven and the vehicle ahead of you, or roughly a car length for every 10 mph. That was in ye olden days, though.
I watched the Trump – Harris Debate, and If this is how Harris would conduct foreign policy, then she will start World War 3 if elected President.
Next Stage Arts continues its 2024 Bandwagon Summer Series of concerts with a Folk/Roots/Americana music festival featuring The Clements Brothers, The Jacob Jolliff Band, and The Mammals on Sunday, October 6 at 2:00 pm at Cooper Softball Field in Putney, VT.
The Clements Brothers are George and Charles Clements, identical twins from New England. They’ve been playing and writing music together for as long as they can remember and their duo marks their first project together since playing in the internationally touring grass-roots band The Lonely Heartstring Band, with whom they put out two albums on Rounder Records. With roots, rock, bluegrass, jazz, and classical influences, George (guitar) and Charles (bass) aim to capture their singer-songwriter sensibilities in a unique blended voice, at once enthralling and intimate, groovy, and serene. The duo is a fusion of each brother’s unique musical journey, and the result is a music all its own, filled with vocal harmonies, instrumental virtuosity, and a genuine love of song.
The Brattleboro Human Services Committee will meet on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 6:00pm in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room.
I Call to order Anne Beekman, chair
Any board member may request that any item be removed from the Consent Agenda if it warrants further discussion. Said item will be removed. Please make the request at this time.
II Superintendent evaluation
– Guest – Sandra Cameron, VSBA
Sept. 9 Beef & Bean Burrito
Black Beans & Rice
Mexican Corn
Tropical Fruit
Lyndsey’s lively positive energy radiates all around her. She talks about living from that and bringing it to others – as an entrepreneur, a parent, a queer person, a wellness coach and as part of the ever-welcoming team at Vegan A.F. restaurant.
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents world music ensemble Yemen Blues on Sunday, September 29 at 4:00 pm at the field behind The Putney Inn, 57 Putney Landing Road, in Putney. The band is touring in support of their new album, Only Love Remains.
Formed in 2010, Yemen Blues was swiftly recognized as one of the planet’s most adventurous and invigorating bands, at once contemporary and timeless, defiantly singular and deliciously eclectic. Their three studio albums and over 1,000 shows to date – including prestigious bookings at Canada’s GlobalFest, Roskilde Festival Denmark, and UCLA’s Royce Hall – have cemented the quartet (Ravid Kahalani, the band’s mercurial co-founding vocalist and gimbri player; bassist/oudist Shanir Blumenkranz; percussionist Rony Irwin; and drummer Dan Mayo) as a benchmark in a world music that has both shaped and challenged the genre.
Cris Ericson has a lot of questions about how cannabis marijuana is considered legal in Vermont but it is not legal under federal laws. She wanders the internet, showing viewers Vermont Statutes online and United States Codes online searching three words: cannabis, marijuana spelled with a j and marijuana spelled with an h.
The first and apparently only political candidate debate between former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris is coming up at 9 PM on Tuesday September 10, 2024 on ABC News Live. Will any of the questions posed to the 2024 candidates for President of the United States of America be about cannabis marijuana?
Work is progressing steadily at the Vermont abutment while crews continue to work on the expansion joint and on moment slabs/sidewalks adjacent to VT 142.
Over the river, the overhang work with copings/sidewalks is progressing from east to west toward Vermont. Removal of the temporary trestle continues as does the intermittent sound of the diesel hammer.
The Brattleboro Trustees of Public Funds will meet on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 4:30pm in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room at the Brattleboro Municipal Center (230 Main Street, 211).
Here’s the September 2024 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. 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. All three have changed their dashboards since the start, so it is now tough to easily compare how things have changed. Variant updates are every two weeks.
In a recent article in vtdigger it was noted that Vermont health insurance rates are among the highest in the nation. Just another painful fact for people to digest who live in a state that is also among the highest for property taxes.
Subsidies do lower the cost of insurance for many Vermonters who pay, on average, $243 a month for an individual marketplace plan. The article describes many of the details about the costs of health care but the only important information comes at the end of the piece when Mike Fisher, Vermont’s health care advocate, states, “Many of us have been looking at this health care financing ‘not-system’ – the way we finance care- have been saying for a number of years that it’s unsustainable and that it can’t possibly continue. But it feels like we’re in a much more acute stage of that.”
I. Approval of Minutes from 8/28/24
II. Review of F21 Policy on Restraint and Seclusion (2:00)
Invited Attendees: Tate Erickson, Matt Schibley, Liz Adams
Sept. 2 CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY
Sept. 3 Hot Dog & Corn Bread Casserole
Cole Slaw
Macaroni Salad
Pineapple
There is a universal principle of humanity that transcends religious and sociopolitical boundaries, emphasising the protection and care of children as a fundamental responsibility shared by all of humanity. This principle is rooted in the recognition of children’s vulnerability and their inherent right to safety, security, and the opportunity to grow and thrive.
Universal Empathy: The instinct to protect children is deeply embedded in human empathy. People across the world, regardless of their background, tend to respond with concern and a desire to help when they see children in danger or distress.
