Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu June 27 to July 1
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
Jun. 27 Pork Chop w/Peach Sauce
Sweet Potato Fries
Beets
Apple Sauce
A Few Months Ago I Was Awarded The Title of Correspondence Chess Master
The first few links at https://hollandmills.website document my ICCF career.
The two noteworthy aspects of this title are that it’s an international title and that it survives me.
Also, after over five years without a tournament victory, I finally placed first in a Master Norm tournament:
https://www.iccf.com/event?id=88928
Brattleboro Heat Advisory
For Immediate Release:
The Town of Brattleboro urges everyone to drink plenty of water, wear light clothing and stay out of the heat as much as possible during the current heat wave.
People who need some cool air can visit the Brooks Memorial Library (224 Main Street) and the Central Fire Station (103 Elliot Street).
Overturning Roe v. Wade – Some of the Dissent
I did a quick read through of the dissent in today’s decision and they don’t mince words. Here are a few highlights to get you going…
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The first problem with the majority’s account comes from JUSTICE THOMAS’s concurrence—which makes clear he is not with the program. In saying that nothing in today’s opinion casts doubt on non-abortion precedents, JUSTICE THOMAS explains, he means only that they are not at issue in this very case. See ante, at 7 (“[T]his case does not pre- sent the opportunity to reject” those precedents). But he lets us know what he wants to do when they are. “[I]n future cases,” he says, “we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.” Ante, at 3; see also supra, at 25, and n. 6. And when we reconsider them? Then “we have a duty” to “overrul[e] these demonstrably erroneous deci- sions.” Ante, at 3. So at least one Justice is planning to use the ticket of today’s decision again and again and again.
Fly the Civil Rights For All Banner Over Main Street, June 26 to July 3rd
CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL
On the 4th we celebrate our Independence from the tyranny of King George and the British Empire. Yet tyranny remains. Corporate tyranny and systemic racism enabled by our government. But all of us who are abused, misused, oppressed, even murdered- we all deserve respect and fair treatment. Civil rights for all people!
Brattleboro Arts Committee Meeting
The Brattleboro Arts Committee will meet on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm in the Community Meeting Room of the Brooks Memorial Library.
Jessica Sticklor (she/her/hers)
Executive Assistant
Town of Brattleboro
Vermont Public What?
I was listening to VPR, Vermont Public radio, today when they announced that their new name was …. Vermont Public.
Vermont Public what? Well, they’ve merged TV and radio. “Vermont Public probably strikes you as both familiar, and different – and that’s the idea. Our name has evolved to reflect who we are, and where we’re going. We’re still everything you count on – and we can do more together, and welcome more people into the fold,” says their announcement.
It strikes me as kinda stupid sounding. No mention of the main thing they do… media broadcasts and streams over radio, TV, cable and internet. No mention of news or information. It doesn’t say anything about who they are or where they are going. It seems more like the forgot to finish the naming process.
State and Town-Wide Redistricting
Every ten years, the Vermont State Legislature is required to conduct a redistricting process, based on the census results. Earlier this year, the Vermont State Legislature redistricted the Vermont House of Representatives and renamed Brattleboro’s three Districts as Windham-7 (previously Windham 2-1, or District 1), Windham-8 (previously Windham 2-2, or District 2), and Windham-9 (previously Windham 2-3, or District 3), changing the district lines slightly.
For local Town Meeting Day elections, the districts will be called: “Windham-7/Brattleboro District 1,” “Windham-8/Brattleboro District 2,” and “Windham-9/Brattleboro District 3.”
Union Street Closure on Monday June 27
For Immediate Release:
The lower half of Union Street, near Elliot Street Terrace will be closed to traffic with a detour provided on Monday, June 27th, 2022 from 8:00am to 8:00pm due to sewer pipe maintenance work.
Selectboard Meeting Notes – Free Ambulance Offer Accepted
The Brattleboro Selectboard agreed to the Golden Cross contract addendum of a free 90-day extra staff and ambulance offer, which the Fire Chief explained came at his suggestion.
They also held a first reading about fines and penalties for rental housing violations, heard public comments about cameras, announced a possibility of a downtown police substation, learned about Tri-Park’s current situation, and more.
The Sundog Poetry Center Presents a Summer Afternoon of Art, Music and Poetry at Next Stage Arts on Sunday, July 3rd
The Sundog Poetry Center is thrilled to announce a summer afternoon of art, music and poetry, our signature AMP event, featuring poetry by Rage Hezekiah, Kerrin McCadden, and Partridge Boswell, music by Los Lorcas, and visual art by Liz Hawkes deNiord.
Rage Hezekiah is a Cave Canem, Ragdale, and MacDowell Fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She is a recipient of the Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award and she serves as Interviews Editor at The Common. Her forthcoming collection, Yearn, is a 2021 Diode Editions Book Contest winner. She is the author of Unslakable (Paper Nautilus Press, 2019) and Stray Harbor (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Rage’s poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Cincinnati Review, The Colorado Review, and many other journals and anthologies. You can find more of her work at ragehezekiah.com.
Shortened Hours at Brooks Memorial Library Thursday, 6/23/22
Brooks Memorial Library will open at 2 PM on Thursday, to accommodate a work session with the Trustees and staff. Thank you for your support and patience as we plan for an even better Brooks.
Upper West River to be Studied this Summer
The water quality of the upper West River and some of its tributaries is getting closely examined this summer. Fitzgerald Environmental Associates has been hired through the State of Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to conduct a Stream Geomorphic Assessment (SGA), which is a way of assessing, understanding, and evaluating the condition of the river system.
According to Marie Caduto, Vermont DEC Watershed Planner for the southeastern portion of Vermont which includes the West River and its tributaries, “this project has been in the works for several years. The local communities are concerned that the recreational use of Townshend Lake and the West River has been impacted by all the sediment moving down the river since Tropical Storm Irene. What we are looking to study is where this sediment is coming from and to find on-the-ground projects that can be done to help stabilize the erosion.”
Noticed Around Brattleboro – Summer 2022
What have you noticed around Brattleboro recently? The little things that aren’t worthy of a full story, but caught your eye?
NECCA circus tent is back up. It’s been up for a couple of weeks now, and again I say that this really marks the location well. Nothing like a circus tent to say “circus!”
Brooks Memorial Library has their new tool-sharing shed and sign up, located between the library and the municipal center.
WSESD Policy and Amendment Committee Agenda and Minutes
AGENDA
I Approval of Minutes from 6/14/22
II. Continue discussion of edits
D6: Substitute Teachers
A1: The Role and Adoption of School Board Policies
D9: Alcohol and Drug -Free Workplace
F24 Firearms and Dangerous or Deadly Weapons
WSESD Personnel Committee Agenda and Minutes
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – Anne Beekman
II. Approval of Previous Minutes – June 9 and June 16, 2022
III. New Hires / Resignations
IV. One Percent Applications (if any)
V. Other Business
BCTV Schedules – Week of June 20, 2022
Monday, June 20, 2022
4:00 am Racism in America – Chinese in America 5/19/22
6:00 am Around Town with Maria – Bill McKibben in Brattleboro 5/27/22
7:05 am Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program – Thomas Jefferson and the American Maple Sugar Industry
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu June 20 to June 24
IMPORTANT INFORMATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MENU
Jun. 20 Rosemary Baked Chicken
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Butternut Squash
Blueberry Cobbler
Mary Lauren Fraser on “Here We Are”
Mary Lauren Fraser brings inspiration to traditional arts – weaving willow coffins for Green Burials, making crankies and an accomplished violinist, she plays the fiddle for fun.
The Elephant in the Room
Off in a corner
in the midst of a mid-town cocktail party,
sits a shy young lady with a small animal
Wrapped in a muff,
Sitting on her lap.
