BCTV Channel 1078 Weekly Listing for 11/27/23
Monday, November 27, 2023
5:20 am Windham World Affairs Council – America & China – From ‘Old Friends’ to The ‘New Cold War’
6:55 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Missing– Angie Kim & Jean Kwok
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Energy Week with George Harvey – Energy Week #548 – 11/9/2023
Have a question about the history of your house, business or Brattleboro relatives?
Researcher LEE HA can help you discover and explore some of Brattleboro’s best stories, artifacts and photographs. Lee also talks about some very cool community projects that the Brattleboro Historical Society is currently involved with.
The seventh annual Writing to the Light Writing Circle led by writer and educator Deborah Lee Luskin will take place in person on Sunday, December 10 at the Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane. The workshop will start promptly at 1 pm and end at 3:30.
At this annual end-of-year fundraiser for the Moore Free Library, writers of all kinds and all levels of experience are invited to reflect on the light in their life in a supportive writing circle. We will write to illuminate our inner light, honor our inner voice, and tell whatever stories rise to be told. Prompts and guidance for automatic writing will be provided. Collectively, we will create a safe space for those who wish to read their new words.
I’ve driven a golf cart in a community like this and it seemed like a great pollution-free way to get around. Are golf carts allowed on the streets of Brattleboro? Should they be? I was struck by this quote in the article:
“Peachtree City, Ga., has roughly 13,000 households and some 11,000 registered golf carts.”
Summary:
● Student representatives spoke about bullying and inappropriate behavior that is going unaddressed in classes at BUHS, and the need to cultivate a positive and loving culture in the community.
● Superintendent Speno introduced a book, “Introduction to the Governance Code,” that Board members and administrators will read and discuss at next June’s retreat.
● Putney Central School Principal Jon Sessions and Guilford Central School Principal John Gagnon gave presentations about family and community engagement via the leadership council and parent-teacher organization.
● WSESU Business Administrator Frank Rucker gave an outline of the timeline for the budget development process over the next few months.
● The Board voted to approve pre-qualification for four firms to bid on the Oak Grove School HVAC project.
● The Board approved payrolls and warrants that included the final payment on the 22-year bond for renovations to BUHS.
The Windham Southeast School District Finance Committee will meet Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 5:00pm at Guilford Central School, 374 Schoolhouse Road, Guilford.
The Town of Brattleboro is considering improvements to the intersection of Green Street and High Street. We’ve engaged an engineering team to support this effort and are inviting you to join a public forum on the matter later this month.
This forum will be an opportunity to review the preliminary concept and offer comments or potential improvements. Please join us on November 29, 2023 from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Selectboard Meeting Room.
Anyone who is even marginally engaged with today’s world cannot help but feel some degree of anxiety watching local and world events unfold. A lot of people have decided to either ration their contact with all forms of media or shut themselves off completely from the near-constant barrage of murder, mayhem and demeaning and hostile rhetoric.
The human species has the potential for creating a peaceful, humane and loving world but most of the activity we see does the opposite. That does not mean that there are not a lot of people who work hard to cultivate what is best in the human spirit, but their efforts are too often Sisyphean.
Here’s a fun one.
Geoffrey Holt, a rather unassuming fellow from Hinsdale, died and left $3.8 million to the town. He said it can be spent on education, health, recreation and culture.
According to the Guardian “He did odd jobs for others, but rarely left town. Despite having taught high schoolers to drive, Holt had given up driving a car. He opted for a bicycle instead, and finally the mower. His mobile home was mostly empty of furniture. No TV or computer either. The legs of the bed went through the floor.”
Israel maintains an illegal air, sea and land blockade on Gaza, not allowing anyone, including children, to escape being bombed to death.
The US government, providing Israel with warplanes, missiles, weapons, ammunition and political and diplomatic backing, is complicit in this ongoing genocide of bombing to death thousands of militarily confined civilians, mostly women and children .
Nov 20 BBQ Pulled Pork
Baked Beans
Snap Peas
Cookies
The meeting was called to order at 5pm by Jaci.
On a motion made by Jaci and seconded by Maggie the agenda was amended to table all other agenda items until after the finance committee meeting.
Budget season is underway at the next regular meeting of the Brattleboro Selectboard. Reports and budget requests from BDCC, SeVEDS, and the DBA are scheduled, as is the draft FY25 budget. There will also be ordinance changes, software explanations, and an update from the fire department.
You can bring up other issues not on the agenda during public participation. (Except that one issue, whatever it is, that the Chair will not allow discussion of at the meeting.)
In Observance of Thanksgiving all Town Offices will be closed on Thursday, November 23, 2023, and Friday, November 24, 2023, with the exception of emergency services.
Brooks Memorial Library will close at 6:00pm on Wednesday, November 22, 2023. They will be closed on Thursday, November 23, 2023 and open on Friday, November 24, 2023 from 10:00am to 6:00pm.
UN Told Israelis Give The Land & Homes Back and Compensate Palestinians! Resolution #194 12/11/1948!
On May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel had proclaimed a new State of Israel comprising 77% of the land in Palestine.
On December 11, 1948, exactly one week after Albert Einstein condemned the macabre Israeli massacre at the Arab village of Deir Yassin and warned against supporting Fascism in Israel in a letter to the New York Times signed by other prominent Jews, [1] the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution #194, resolving that:
The Brattleboro RTM Human Services Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 4:00pm in Room 306 at the Municipal Center (230 Main Street) and over Zoom.
Due to equipment issues that have since been resolved, pile driving operations are projected to be completed no later than Monday of next week. Once finished, a crew will be onsite to begin cleaning out the piles. This operation will begin next week before the site shuts down for the Thanksgiving Holiday period.
All members were contacted multiple times announcing the meeting time, place and agenda. No members were able to attend.
D1 Personnel Recruitment, Selection, Appointment, and Background Checks
• Reviewed edits from prior meeting.
• D1 will go for a first reading at the 11/14 Board meeting.
BCTV Channel 1078 Weekly Listing for 11/20/23
Monday, November 20, 2023
5:20 am Windham World Affairs Council – America & China – From ‘Old Friends’ to The ‘New Cold War’
6:55 am Brattleboro Literary Festival – Missing– Angie Kim & Jean Kwok
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Energy Week with George Harvey – Energy Week #548 – 11/9/2023
