Brattleboro Selectboard Has No New Candidates This Year – The List of Who Is Running

by cgrotke | Town News

Unless something unusual happens, the same Selectboard members you see serving the town today will be the same ones serving Brattleboro in the next year.  No one is challenging them this year at the polls.

David Schoales will be running for the 3 year seat. John Allen and Donna Macomber are running for the two open 1 year seats on the board.

Lawrin Crispe is the only candidate for Representative Town Meeting Moderator.

Brattleboro Selectboard Special Meeting – Annual Town Meeting Warnings

by Not Signed In | Town News

The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 5:00pm in the Selectboard meeting room at the Municipal Center. It is anticipated that the Board will enter into executive session immediately following the meeting to discuss a potential litigation matter.

Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100

The Center for Cardiovascular Health at BMH Hosts a Series of Events in February to Help Local Women Learn The Heart Truth®

by BMH | Health

To raise awareness among local women that heart disease is their #1 health threat, the at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital today announces a series of events for February to promote the Heart Truth: a nationwide effort to spread information about women and heart disease, prevention and wellness.

The month long event will include:

  • Radio series entitled Matters of the Heart (every Monday in February 9:15 AM on Live and Local)
  • Red Dress breakfast with Phaedra McDonough, APRN (7:30 PM on February 26)
  • Café Chats with Cardiac Nurses for Risk Factors of Cardiac Disease (February 11 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM)
  • Love your Heart Blood Pressure Screenings (Mondays in February 12:00 – 1:00 PM)
  • Rapid CPR Classes (February 19 & 26 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM)
  • Walk this Way to Better Health fitness walks (Tuesdays at 4:30 PM and Thursdays at 3:15 PM)
  • and more.

Do You Have A Tripod Or Tripod Adaptor for a Smartphone I Can Have/Borrow?

by Not Signed In | Questions & Answers

I urgently need a tripod or tripod adaptor that will hold a Smartphone. I can’t find one in any local stores and the one I ordered online got lost in the mail. (I’m having really bad luck with this!!) I need this for a project that is due THIS FRIDAY 1/31/2014! So I need this in my hands absolutely no later than Wednesday (but tomorrow, Tuesday, would be better!!!).

Please please please email me if you can help me out! You’d be helping out a poor artist with big dreams who’s desperately trying to make a video for a contest with a cash prize she really needs!!! I can return it to you on Saturday if you want it back. I can meet you at the Cotton Mill.

Double Exhaust?

by cgrotke | Questions & Answers

Maybe car folks know the answer. Why are there more cars and trucks on the road with double exhaust systems? Isn’t one expensive enough?

It seems that whenever I’m stuck behind one, the smell of exhaust is amplified with these double muffler and tailpipe combos.

BCTV Channel 8 & 10 Schedules for the Week of 1/27/14

by BCTVProg | Media

BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 1-27-14

                   Monday January 27              

12:00 am      Green Mtn. Vets for Peace Ep. 128

1:00 am       VT Works for Women Presents: Young Women and the VT Economy

1:43 am       ‘Putting On Our Finery’ – Jan 15, 2014 at NEYT

2:00 am       FSTV Overnight

4:00 am       UVM Comm Med School: Patient Choices at the End of Life

5:30 am       Brattleboro Core Arts Panel Discussion: 1/11/14

Dr. Jerry Day on WVEW-LP

by pockets | Media

Dr.Jerry Day will be interviewed on DJ Pockets’ “buttahmilk” this tuesday night from 6-8pm pn Brattleboro Community Radio.

Dr.Day is a television/film producer and personal rights and freedom crusader on Smart Meters and other issues. The other issue in this case will be about CAFRs. (Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports)

Tune in to find out..tuesday 6pm-8pm 107.7fm and on ther web at www.wvew.org

—DJ Pockets

Voting in Brattleboro’s Annual Town Meeting

by JohnWilmerding | Activism

Fellow residents of Brattleboro,

It has come to my attention that at least two, maybe all three, of Brattleboro’s three election districts each lack a few candidates for election as voting Representatives to Town Meeting this year.

There is one more business day — tomorrow, Monday, January 27 — during which one might pick up a petition at the Town Clerk’s office, get only ten (10) signatures of registered voters in their district, and turn their petition in by the end of the day (5:00 PM).

Incident at BUHS?

by Not Signed In | Questions & Answers

Just received a call from B.U.H.S. about some incident that occurred a the school yesterday involving a couple of students and police.

Does anyone have any information?

5:45 Live: 1/24/14

by BrattleboroTV | Media

 

Check out Peter Welch’s visit to Brattleboro, the Selectboard’s latest option tax proposal, SeVEDS newest funding approval, Dummerston’s controversial re-zoning, the commuter visibility concerns at the I-91 Bridge construction site, and much more.

Does Anyone Know What Happened To Cathy Barrows?

by LEH | Questions & Answers

Cathy Barrows has been our Animal Control Officer for many years but she no longer is. Questioning at the Police Dept. brings “I don’t know” answers, as does asking at the Town Clerk’s office. Seems hush hush to me, but I think the public should know what happened to this loyal and knowledgable woman after so many years in the position. Does anyone know?

Upcoming Classes at Open Music Collective – Calling All Aspiring Jazz Vocalists, Musicians and Curious Guitarists!

by jmacdbass | Music

Hello Everyone,

We have some great classes starting soon, but a few holes to fill

We have a vacancy in our monday vocal class – this is a very special class and we will be working on some really great under sung songs!

There is a possibility for a beginning adult ensemble with another person or two, start your next big step in jazz now!

Weekend Concert Series: Soul Train Line Dancing

by cgrotke | Entertainment

Remember the early days of music television? It was typically regulated to late Saturday mornings after the cartoons were over but before the sports programs got going, or very late on weekend TV. If you wanted to learn what songs would be popular on the radio, you would tune in to Dick Clark and watch his American Bandstand. If you wanted to learn how to dance, though, you’d switch over to Don Cornelius and the Soul Train.

One of the highlights of the show (in addition to the funky animated train logo) was the line dance. Pairs of dancers would take turns dancing their way toward the camera while others stoof around, watched, and clapped while waiting for their turn to shine.

Barre Classes Arrive In Southern Vermont

by jakemw | Health

Have you heard of Barre or BarSculpt?  It’s a new fitness regime that has been sweeping the nation!  Think of it as “Pilates Evolved.”

BarSculpt is a unique combination of cardio, core strenghtening and stretching, that results in a strong, lean, flexible body.  It’s also a safe workout for people of any fitness level. 

BarSculpt classes have arrived in Putney and are being taught by Putney resident, Maria Ogden.  Maria has been involved in fitness activities for 30 years and brings her own love of this exercise to Hot Wheelz Cycle Studio.

Entergy Volunteers Re-Vamp Morningside Shelter

by Not Signed In | Activism

BRATTLEBORO 1/24/2014 – Over the course of two very long (13+ hour) days, a dedicated team of Entergy employees completed two much-needed projects at Morningside Shelter. As part of Morningside’s Project: Re-Vamp – Design for Dignity initiative, Entergy foot the bill for materials and recruited their skilled employees as volunteers to complete the projects.

On December 13, a crew of six Entergy employees, led by Project Manager Brian Tietze (with technical assistance from GPI Construction), completed a safety repair to the Shelter’s main staircase. The stair treads, which are traversed by hundreds of feet each day, had begun to split and the surfaces had become slippery. The bannister on the staircase had been patched a number of times, and although it had never been in violation of safety codes, Tietze noticed the potential safety hazard in the low height of the railing and made it a priority to raise it to a sounder height.