BCTV Ch.8 schedule for the week of 1/26/15
Monday, January 26, 2015
12:00 am Building Bright Futures: ELD Committee Mtg 1/8/15
2:00 am Nuclear Free Future: Vermont Yankee Post Mortem
2:45 am Putney Cares: Jonathan Secrest 11/10/14
4:30 am Conversations VT: Homelessness
5:25 am Positively Vermont: Purple Hearts Reunited
The following Brattleboro committee and board meetings previously scheduled for Tuesday, January 27 are CANCELLED due to the anticipated storm:
Traffic Safety Committee
Conservation Committee
Board of Civil Authority
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
Winter Sunshine Series opens with The Three Little Pigs
PUTNEY- Sandglass opens its series on January 31st with two performances of WonderSpark’s Three Little Pigs, at 1pm and 3pm. The classic tale retold with hilarious puppet pigs and a silly wolf – with an emphasis on ‘being prepared’. Join storyteller and puppeteer Chad Williams for a highly interactive show with tabletop puppets and lots of audience participation. “Little pig, little pig, let me in!” “Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!” Three Little Pigs build their houses of hay, wood and bricks – but will they withstand the Big Bad Wolf?
Brattleboro Time Trade:
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See below for exciting Upcoming Events and learn what Time Trade is all about!
This week’s fabulous listings, brought to you from neighborhood greatness:
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Learn Latin Spanish Language From A Hispanic Native Honduran
Home Organizing, Yoga, and Painting
Class: Inner Child Connection & Healing
Class: Creating Money, Abundance, & Prosperity
BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 24 – Potential Republican presidential candidates are hobnobbing this weekend with politically potent billionaires at an invitation-only gathering in Palm Springs, California, that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and others have called “the Koch brothers primary.”
Four Republican hopefuls – looking to line up benefactors to bankroll their campaigns – are participating in mostly closed-door meetings of millionaires and billionaires assembled by Charles and David Koch, the industrial tycoons who control the second largest family fortune in the United States.
The excerpt below is from an article documenting the shrinking middle class, and the accumulation of wealth upward, ever upward. According to the authors, Of the 50 states, Vermont was, surprisingly to me, #2 for this phenomena.
“2. Vermont
> Middle income growth 2009-2013: -5.9%
> Fifth quintile income growth 2009-2013: 2.8%
> Fifth quintile share of income: 48.8%
> Middle class household income: $53,020 (20th highest)
Join independent scholar and Boston author Marc Songini for a book talk on his book, Boston Mob The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer, on Saturday, January 24, at 3 PM in the Library’s Meeting Room.
Author Marc Songini will discuss a true story of revenge, corruption, and power. Hear how Joe turned on the Mafia for killing off his gang; how Joe put away his former friends; then went on the run.
Russell Brand is quick witted and politically-minded. In this stage show, filmed live at Hammersmith Apollo in London, Brand looks at media, poverty, symbols, advertising, image and values.
The show starts off with some audience banter, but soon he gets down to business. Jesus, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and Gandhi are the icons that frame his larger discussion, and it makes for quite an evening of laughs as well as provocation of thought as he discusses each one.
23 January 2015 On the death of the Saudi King. Greetings from Algeria
King Penguin Died Today
“King Penguin died!” said I
“Long live the fishes!”
“Al Hamdulilah.” Said the dissident locked in the tower!
For these words alone we could have gotten
lashes!
The Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC) will meet on Monday, January 26, 2015 at 5:30pm at the Brooks Memorial Library in the community room.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
The Brattleboro Traffic Safety Committee will meet on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 8:30am in the Selectboard meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
Greetings, iBrattleboroans!
It’s me, Steve West, the former host of WKVT’s “Live and Local”. I’ve been laying low since leaving talk radio, and have been busy plotting my first solo record. I’ve been writing songs for decades now, but have never made a recording of just my songs. Some may remember Relative Strangers, a group I did here in southern Vermont with Clayton Sabine and Rose Gerber. I also played in a band in the 80s that some may remember called Miracle Legion (Rough Trade Records) out of New Haven, CT.
A total of $68,000 in prizes is being offered for innovative business models and plans in the .
The competition is presented in collaboration by Strolling of the Heifers and the . It is largely funded through the , created through the settlement agreement between Vermont Yankee and the state of Vermont.
Additional competition funding came from the and the . is providing partnership support.
1 in 20 Windham County teens misused a prescription drug in the past 30 day (2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey)
Do you live with, work with, or directly support teens?Do you want to help prevent prescription drug misuse by teens?Here’s HOW you can help!
Maximizing Your Role as a Teen Influencer Peer Facilitator Training
For those who did not come to the meeting with Brattleboro’s Development Review board last Weds the 21st, you have another chance. The Retroactive Site Plan submitted by ZB Properties will not be reviewed until Feb 18th. It was postponed. I will post another announcement when the meeting gets closer.
I did learn that public comments and supporting documents can be entered into the record at that time. In other words THIS IS IT. If interested landowners or the public wants any input pertaining to the approval or rejection of what has been done to this property (282 and 486 Western Ave). This is your only opportunity to do so.
Night work on the new bridge will resume at Route 30. Night work will be conducted Monday night, January 26th thru Friday night, January 30th.
I-91
Northbound I-91 traffic has been relocated onto the southbound bridge. Traffic will remain reduced to one lane in each direction on I-91 until completion of the new bridge. The new bridge will be 104’ wide and is designed to carry all four lanes of traffic –two northbound and two southbound.
by Several Members of the Shareholder Forum
Recently The Commons printed an article and letters regarding the Putney Coop, changes to their by-laws and involvement with CDS Consulting. As members, we mean – shareholders, of the Brattleboro Food Coop, the assumption is that the Putney Coop is going to become like our coop in Brattleboro. Perhaps not the size, but the management structure, profits and corporate feel.
In August a few disheartened shareholders started the Brattleboro Food Coop Shareholder Forum – for shareholders, by shareholders. We meet on the third Sunday of the month from 5:00-7:00pm in the Coop Community Room. All are welcome.
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Meaningful justice, would be Europeans recognizing their legal responsibility to compensate the survivors of Muslim and non-Muslim millions slaughtered, maimed, impoverished, enslaved and exploited on three continents over the centuries of Europe’s rise via the plunder of three continents, including Muslim and other cultures and civilizations older, more advanced and wealthier than those of Europeans at that time. Patience!
No one on the political horizon can stir my voting allegiance. And, no one ever has. My vote like so many other voters goes to the lesser evil. Too often the greatest pull is to not vote at all.Now that 2016 presidential hopefuls are at stage left or right, no one captures my undivided interest.
Take Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s Senator who is dancing on the edge of the presidential hat ring. At first glance, his recent 12-point national economic program enumerates what many in our state would expect from him: job creation, wages, unions, in-sourcing, climate and fossil fuel concerns, trade policies, equal pay, break up big banks, wealth disparity, Medicare-for-all, Social Security and tax reform – all quintessential Bernie.
By Curtiss Reed, Jr., Executive Director, Vermont Partnership for Fairness & Diversity
Brattleboro. We believe Robert Appel’s Commentary “Racial bias plagues Vermont, too” (Rutland Herald & Times Argus, December 28, 2014) does a disservice to the Vermont State Police by casting the agency in the very narrow, negative lens of deficient data analysis. More so than any other state agency, Vermont State Police (VSP) has demonstrated conspicuously courageous leadership in the areas of bias reduction and cultural competency. This commentary offers a brief retrospective on how VSP leadership has been shaping a more responsive, culturally competent agency.
