The third installment of the 2018 Real Estate and Personal Property Taxeswill be due onFebruary 15th, 2019. Payments made after February 15th, 2019 will have an additional 1% interest added to the unpaid balance.
The utility billing is also due on February 15th, 2019. Payments made after February 15th, 2019 will have an additional 1% interest, as well as an 8% penalty added to the unpaid balance.
Yesterday large water leak in Downtown Brattleboro caused a considerable amountof damage to sidewalk and traffic island at the intersection of Main Street and High Street. Water service and electrical power were turned off for several hours until Utilities Crews contained the leak. The Utilities Crew finished the emergency repair around three o’clock this morning.
The crew discovered a broken sprinkler valve to 167 Main Street was the cause of the leak. The Utilities Division estimates approximately 160,000 gallons of water was discharge from the broken sprinkler valve.
Stop by and play a game of Scrabble with us at Brooks Memorial Library 🙂 The atmosphere is pleasant and mellow, with plenty of smiling and laughing! All levels are absolutely welcome to join the fun!!
Join us at Brooks Memorial Library at 7 pm on Monday, February 11th as William Forchion reads from his book Sacred & Sacrosanct: a collection of poems! Wiliam is a Director, Producer, Poet, Clown, Acrobat, Stuntman, Father, Friend, Minister, Coach, Writer, and Teacher, all in one package. His works have been called “resonant” and “insightful.” In addition to reading, he will offer insight into his #ApoemAday project, where he has been writing and sharing a poem every day for a year via Twitter.
The Brattleboro Selectboard helped Groundworks take a step forward with a shelter/campus project. Their approval came after a passionate plea by a next door neighbor to preserve the building.
The meeting seemed a bit like an enjoyable poetry reading at times, with ideas and words flowing back and forth. Everyone caught the groove, and they wrapped up with lots of time to settle in for the State off the Union address.
Brattleboro Community Television will team up with The Commons to present a Selectboard candidates’ forum on Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., at the Brattleboro Selectboard Room on the second floor of the Municipal Center, 230 Main Street. The program will be broadcast live on BCTV Channel 10, and streamed live at brattleborotv.org as well as on Brattleboro Community TV’s Facebook page.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu February 4 to February 8
Feb. 4 American Goulash
Green Beans
Garlic Bread
Mango
PLAY AUDITIONS IN GUILFORD
Guilford Center Stage announces open auditions for its spring production of Alice, a musical play directed by Richard Epstein. There will be two sessions of auditions: Saturday, February 9, from 10 am to 1 pm, and Tuesday, February 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford.
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee will meet on Thursday, February 7, 2019, at 5:30pm in the Cusick Conference Room (2ndfloor) of the Windham Regional Career Center, located at 80 Atwood Street.
Emerald ash borer is here. Infestation has been verified 20 miles away. It is a killer; now is the time to vaccinate any ash trees you want to save, because by the time you find the pretty green insect on your tree, or notice the damage, it will be too late. Infested trees die from the top of the crown down; by the time you can see from the ground that you have damage, the tree will be too far gone to save.
How do I know if I have ash trees?
BCTV Channel 8 schedule for the week of 2/4/19
Monday, February 4, 2019
5:00 am Townshend Stone Arch Bridges – Townshend Stone Arch Bridges
6:40 am Landmark Broadcasters – “Finn”tastic News – Ep 3 (J-Term 2019)
6:55 am Snowboarding in Southern VT – Brian Knight
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Poets Speak – Conversations with VT Poet Laureate Chard deNiord – Partridge Boswell
Saturday, Feb. 9th the VFW Post #1034 Auxiliary will be having a sweetheart dinner & dance. Stuffed pork loin, mashed potato, butternut squash, rolls, butter & dessert will be the menu. Doors open at 5 pm, dinner will be served at 6 pm. Cost is $10 per person for the dinner/dance, or $5 for the dance only after the meal is over. Colt 45 Band will start playing at 7 pm.
Ever since Trump was elected president, people have been casting aspersions at Russia for their alleged interference in that election. With the attempted coup now underway in Venezuela, we have an example of how the United States does interference — when they don’t like the result of another country’s elections, they just destabilize the government and install their own guy. In the case of Venezuela, the U.S. has been trying to take out their government since at least the time of Hugo Chavez in the early 2000s, going so far as to pull a military maneuver in which Chavez was briefly kidnapped. Chavez survived that attempt. Now it’s Maduro’s turn.
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present a dance party/concert featuring The MILES Band at Next Stage on Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 pm. Next Stage rolls back its portable front row risers to double as a dance hall and concert venue, with a spacious dance floor between the stage and raked theater seating, for this special evening of funk, soul, rock & roll, folk/rock and reggae classics and contemporary hits.
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road is open to the public for lunch. Lunch is served Mon-Fri from 11:30 – 1:30. Specials listed below are only $6 a plate. Hand made burger, fries, sweet potato fries, wings, onion rings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 257-0438
Mon – beef stroganoff over noodles w/ salad
View the raptors and wildlife of Brattleboro through photographic images at the Brooks Memorial Library from February 26th through March 22nd. Photographs, by Dara Carleton Wildlife Photography, will include bald eagles, ospreys, cormorants, song birds, small critters, and water fowl images all taken within a 30 minute drive from Brattleboro. Come view the bald eagles and wildlife that’s right in your backyard! Opening reception will be Wednesday February 27th from 5-7pm.
Will Brattleboro Town Manager Peter Elwell get a five year contract extension? Most likely, at the next regular meeting of the Brattleboro Selectboard.
A hearing on modified parking, some VCDP grants, and the scheduling of informational meetings for Representative Town Meeting representatives will occur. There is also one item on the agenda purely for the sake of not having it on the agenda any longer. You can, as always, bring up other matters not on the agenda during public participation.
The Brattleboro Town ADA Committee invites you to a public discussion on Brattleboro Parking Issues for People with Mobility Issues February 8, 2019, 9:00 a.m. , Selectboard Meeting Room, Municipal Center, 230 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 212, next to Hannah Cosman Meeting Room
The Town ADA committee will be reporting on the difficulty of Accessible parking in Brattleboro and will be sharing possible solutions to the problems.
Over this past weekend [1/26/19], the Vermont AFL-CIO held its annual COPE Convention at the Old Socialist Labor Hall in the granite City of Barre. The day was spent strategizing Labor’s approaches to seeing a $15 an hour livable wage, paid family medical leave, and card check recognition becoming Vermont law in 2019. By passing card check recognition (S36), anytime a majority of public sector workers in a single shop sign Union cards, they would immediately be recognized as a Union without having to go through a drawn out and bureaucratic Labor Board election process (a process that provides anti-Union employers an unfair advantage and time to use scare tactics against employees). Passing card check in Vermont is a concrete way that Labor can begin to go back on the offensive here in the Green Mountains.
Find attached the 2018 annual progress report for the Brattleboro 2015 Local All Hazard Mitigation Plan. The report is prepared in conformance with the requirements of the town participation in the Community Rating System of the National Flood Insurance Program. CRS participation reduces flood insurance premiums by 10%.
