Brattleboro Senior Meals – November 6 thru November 10
Nov 6 Franks & Beans
French Fries
Cole Slaw
Corn Bread
Peaches
Kat Wright and Brett Hughes Holiday Show at Next Stage
PUTNEY – Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present singer/songwriters Kat Wright and Brett Hughes with their quartet performing songs of the season at Next Stage on Friday, December 1 at 7:30 pm.
Kat Wright and Brett Hughes, two of Vermont’s most beloved songbirds, join forces once again this December for their 10th annual Vermont holiday tour. The show, a true Christmas gift featuring Tyler Bolles (Swale, Rough Francis) on upright bass and multi-instrumentalist Will Seeders (Carling & Will, Caitlin Canty), offers songs of holiday heartbreak and holiday cheer. It is bejeweled with storytelling, originals, and beloved classics alike. It’s guaranteed to warm your heart, pique your nostalgia, and create a loving container for those good ol’ holiday blues that we all know so well.
Brattleboro Selectboard – Agenda and Notes – November 7, 2023
Downtown Brattleboro surveillance is on the agenda for the next regular meeting of the Brattleboro Selectboard. New $45,000 police cameras will be purchased for the intersection of High and Main so that the Town can watch everything you do there, in addition to watching everything you do at the Transportation Center. Some local stores will join in and add their cameras to the surveillance system, too.
Brattleboro’s sludge removal has become more expensive and the board will approve nearly $45,000 contract increase for just six months of disposal costs. The board will also discuss their new Legislative Agenda (things they want the State to help fix), a bike path proposal for Rt. 5, discontinuing part of Melrose Street, ordinance changes, and more.
You can request other items not on the agenda during public participation, as long as you don’t bring up something that annoys the Chair.
Brattleboro and VT COVID-19 Regional Dashboard Summary – November 2023
Here’s the November 2023 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 seem to be doing weekly updates, near the end of the week. All three have changed their dashboards since the start, so it is now tough to easily compare where we stand. Variant updates are every two weeks.
Construction Update Brattleboro-Hinsdale Bridge – Nov 3, 2023
Crews have finished driving the first of nine 30″ diameter steel pipes to bedrock to serve as the foundation of Pier 1. The distance to bedrock was 150+/- feet.
Pile driving is very loud, so it is only authorized from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. It is anticipated to continue through Thanksgiving week. This is the last of the foundation work for this project
Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee Meeting Agenda
The Brattleboro RTM Finance Committee will met on Thursday, November 9, 3034 at 6:00pm in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room at the Municipal Center (230 Main Street).
Serious Word Play
With so much trouble in the world, in so many realms, I can’t help but ask myself, what is my responsibility? Where to begin? Problems seem innumerable. Where is the onus?
Yet today, for some reason, I looked at that word, onus, and couldn’t stop seeing it as comprised of its parts; on us. The burden is… on us. Is that etymology on purpose? An answer to the elusive question hidden in plain sight?
High Street Utility Work
Zaluzny Excavating will be replacing a sewer line at 188 High Street on Thursday, November 2 beginning at 7:00am. During this work, on street parking will not be permitted on either side of High Street where indicated and there will be restricted one-lane alternating traffic in that area.
If you have any questions, please contact Zaluzny Excavating at 802 254-5758.
WSESD Windham Regional Career Center’s Advanced Manufacturing Advisory Board Meeting
The WSESD Windham Regional Career Center’s ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ADVISORY BOARD MEETING will be held on Thursday, November 9th at 2:30 p.m. at the WRCC TIC building.
WSESD Board Meeting Minutes Oct 24, 2023
Summary:
● A student representative on the board shared about an unmet need for students to make social connections during class.
● The administration presented about the budgeting process and timeline, including the need to make adjustments now that ESSER funding has been discontinued.
● There was a discussion about whether the district should continue administering student climate surveys twice a year in order to improve school climate. Ultimately the board voted to follow the administration’s recommendation to conduct the survey only once a year.
● The board voted to re-adopt three updated policies: E10 – School Crisis Prevention & Response, E15 – Security Cameras and F9 – Student Substance Abuse Prevention. The board presented three more updated policies for a first reading: C9 – Notice of Non-Discrimination, D11 – Public Complaints about Personnel, and F2 – Bus Discipline.
● The board approved $458,735.95 of carry over funds for EES from last year’s budget. These funds were unused due to not being able to find a contractor for planned kitchen renovations at the Birge Street facility and having to close some classrooms due to lack of staff. The funds will be used to complete the renovations under a scaled down plan using internal staff and for retention and wellness bonuses for employees.
● The board discussed adding the SEPAC to meetings they promote on the WSESD facebook page. They will seek input from the Special Education administrator and consider further at a future meeting.
WSESD Social Justice Committee Meeting Agenda
AGENDA
Mission: Foster learning environments in which all members of the school community are safe, feel valued, and are appreciated, as well as promote policies and procedures that value equity and diversity in our schools.
I. Call to Order / Introductions / Recognition of Visitors
GunSenseVT Candlelight Vigil Nov 2 Pliny Park Brattleboro
GunSense VT is holding a candlelight vigil in Brattleboro this Thursday, November 2nd at Pliny Park, 5 p.m. in support of the people of Lewiston, Maine, banning assault weapons, and passing common sense legislation to save innocent lives. It is one of several that are planned for the same day around the State.
As GunSense VT board member Laura Subin, whose daughter was in lockdown at Bates College in Lewiston last week, said, “The chilling proximity of the tragedy in Maine shatters any illusion of safety we might have previously felt here in Vermont. It is a harrowing reminder that no community is immune to this sort of heartache.”
November 15, 2023 Brattleboro Development Review Board Meeting Agenda
2023-121 Jennifer Shay; Historic Resource Overlay District & Residential Neighborhood 3600; request for Design Review Approval to demolish a contributing structure in the Homestead Home Historic District at 198 Canal Street; Tax Map Parcel #325182.000
2023-129 Wesley Babb & Stacy Salpietro-Babb; Residential Neighborhood District; request for Conditional Use Approval to construct an enclosure and keep a rehabbed raven at 31 Christie Lane; Tax Map Parcel #110326.220
Rep. Becca Balint Using Tax Dollars To Scold MTG While My Neighbor’s Barn Roof Is Ready To Fall In!
U.S. Congressperson Becca Balint of Vermont is using her time in the U.S. House of Representatives, time which costs us taxpayer dollars, to have a girly cat fight with U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of the State of Georgia.
BCTV Schedules – Week of October 30, 2023
BCTV Channel 1078 Weekly Listing for 10/30/23
Monday, October 30, 2023
4:00 am BDCC presents – SoVT Get on Board
5:30 am 1st Wednesdays Presents – The Joy of Lex with the Co-Host of “A Way with Words”
6:45 am Stained Glass Windows of St. Michaels – Week 8: St. John the Baptist
The Yearly Medicare Advantage Media Blitz
The annual fall Medicare Advantage media blitz is in full swing. Private insurance companies are raking in billions of dollars on the backs of unwitting seniors who think they are getting a good deal but in fact are being robbed of not only benefits but money.
Here’s the quick rundown. In 2003 it was decided that the private insurance industry should share in the profits of the government’s Medicare program. It was a calculated political move to privatize Medicare and eventually turn it into an entirely private insurance product.
Keep in mind that Medicare’s administrative expenses run at about 2 percent while private insurance company administrative costs run as high as 20 percent or more.
Brattleboro Planning Commission: Monday, November 6, 2023, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.
6:10 – 6:15 Announcements
• Guilford Town Plan revisions
• Dummerston Zoning Amendments
• Other
Brattleboro Committee Meeting Agendas
The Brattleboro RTM Human Services Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 4:00pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center, 230 Main Street, Suite 212.
The Brattleboro Tree Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 4:14 in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room at the Municipal Center.
Brattleboro Human Services Committee Meeting Agenda
The Brattleboro Human Services Committee will meet on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 4:00pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room. This agenda contains the zoom information.
Last Brattleboro Walking History Tours of the Season!
The last Brattleboro Walking History tours of the season will be held this Friday, October 27 at 4 pm (NOT 10/28 at 11 am as advertised on the calendar) AND next Saturday, November 4 at 11 am.
Designed as a fundraiser, volunteers from the Brattleboro Sunrise Rotary Club have created a walking history tour of downtown Brattleboro. With the help of the Brattleboro Historical Society and the Brattleboro Words Project, Sunrise Rotary volunteers pooled their collective knowledge to put together a great introduction to Brattleboro, Vermont’s illustrious history.
