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Congratulations Burlington, and kudos to everyone in the Burlington Skatepark Coaliton, Grindline, and all supporters.
45th Community Messiah Sing: A Benefit for the Homeless
Friends of Music at Guilford invites singers and music lovers in the Tri-State region to start their holiday season at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 5, with the 45th annual Community Messiah Sing, a benefit for the homeless. Centre Congregational Church, at 193 Main Street in Brattleboro, has been home for the Sing since 1982 and for a few prior seasons as well.
Terry Larsen, a resident of Southampton, Mass., returns for a ninth season to lead the Sing. He brings over twenty-five years of experience as a music teacher, choral singer, soloist, and conductor to his role at the helm. William McKim, who has played the organ at this event for twenty-seven past seasons, and officially “retired” twice from doing so, agreed to step in on short notice when UVM’s David Neiweem, who played for the Sing in 2014, broke a collarbone in late October.
Sanders Announces $1.1 Billion For Vermont in Transportation Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that a five-year, $305 billion transportation bill agreement reached Tuesday by House and Senate negotiators will deliver nearly $1.1 billion to Vermont to improve the state’s roadways.
“While this legislation does not have everything I would have hoped for, I am pleased it includes more than $1 billion for Vermont’s roads and bridges in the coming years,” Sanders said.
As a member of the committee with primary jurisdiction over federal road and bridge programs, Sanders successfully fought for a funding formula that helps Vermont. The final agreement includes a 5 percent increase in funding for Vermont in the first year and a total increase of 15 percent over five years.
Selectboard Meeting Notes: Single Stream Savings Dry Up, Precision Stabilization Offered
Major changes to Brattleboro’s trash and recycling were discussed, but decisions were delayed in order to gather more information from the public and solid waste district. And the prospect of savings from a switch to single stream recycling proved elusive.
BDCC and GS Precision received a decade of tax breaks along with loans and some property adjustments as a reward for staying in town, keeping and creating many good-paying jobs, and and supplying grandlist enhancing facilities.
Grants, an emergency compressor, committee vacancies, and more were also up for discussion.
The Stockwell Brothers at Mole Hill Theatre on Friday, December 4
Mole Hill Theatre presents contemporary bluegrass and folk music quartet The Stockwell Brothers on Friday, December 4 at 7:30 pm.
Bruce, Barry, Alan and Kelly Stockwell’s music spans traditional and progressive styles, but their trademark acoustic sound features new singer/songwriter material recast with banjo, alternative rhythms and three-part harmonies. They cover straight ahead bluegrass songs, finger picked acoustic guitar ballads, full tilt breakdowns and traditional mandolin tunes mixed in with more unusual fare – Americana melodies riding world beat grooves and Celtic, jazzy, even neo-classical instrumentals.
Naturally Firm Skin – 3 strategies For Beautiful Tight Skin
There degree of complexity of anti-wrinkle creams you can find today. Each cream promises to diminish wrinkles with regular use. Popular creams work, while some are no more than. plain creams. A waste money. So you really to be able to choose wisely when buying anti-wrinkle improves.
Jobs, Justice & Climate Rally
20 times, world leaders have met to discuss climate change. This week in Paris, they are meeting again.
No matter what happens in Paris, we know what we need: real climate solutions that create local jobs and strengthen community power and resiliency. It’s up to us to lead the way — and we’re starting right here in New England with a massive rally on December 12, the day after the Paris talks end!
What: Jobs, Justice and Climate: Rally to Defend New England’s Future
When: Saturday, Dec 12, 1-3 pm
Where: Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston
Oh, YAY, Dec. 1 Today!
When I awoke today I remembered a certain calendar and ibrattleboro. Thank goodness the advent calendar is up and running. Thanks, Chris for doing it each year. What a nice treat/gift for us.
Act 46 Study Committee Agenda and Minutes
ACT 46 STUDY COMMITTEE
Representing the Brattleboro Town School District, Dummerston Town School District, Guilford Town School District, Putney Town School District, and the Vernon Town School District
http://www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Act 46 Study Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 3, 2015 at the Guilford Central School.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:30 p.m. – Alice Laughlin, Committee Chair
II. REVIEW, PRIORITIZE AND ESTABLISH DESIRED OUTCOMES FOR MEETING BY CHAIRPERSON
Brattleboro Union High School Board Meeting Agenda
BRATTLEBORO UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD
53 Green Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
www.wssu.k12.vt.us
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The BUHS #6 Finance Committee will meet at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 17 in the James E. Kane Conference Room, 53 Green Street.
NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING
The BUHS #6 Board of Directors will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, December 7, 2015 in the WRCC Cusick Conference Room
The Story of Rosa Parks
Today people are celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience.
Long ago, in 1991, while working at the Capital Children’s Museum, a four year old girl came to our Animation Lab with her mother and wanted to make a cartoon. Not an easy task for adults, but this girl was on a mission and got to work. She recorded a soundtrack, created artwork, and directed the animation for “The Rosa Parks Story.”
At the River Garden: Coffee & Conversation – Stories of Homelessness
The Gallery at the Garden features a great new show for December: Coffee & Conversation — Stories of Homelessness, by Liz LaVorgna and Wyatt Andrews. Stories of Homelessness is a photography and video exhibit with a community art wall installation that brings together two cross-sections of our community: people experiencing homelessness and people who have stable housing.
The Gallery is located at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden, home of Strolling of the Heifers, at 157 Main Street, Brattleboro VT. Normal gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (except during special events at the River Garden).
The 1876 Christmas Season – Cheney & Clapp Advertisement
Cheney & Clapp ran a bookstore in downtown Brattleboro in the 1800’s. They specialized in books, periodicals, and paper goods, but if you look at their Christmas advertisement in the Vermont Phoenix for 1876, you can see they have a lot of other items.
The ad is a bit hard to read, but you can see items such as Alphabet Blocks, Brushes, Collar & Cuff boxes, Checkers, Dominoes, Drums, Flutes, Easels, Faber pencils, Hymn books, Iron toys, Jerusalem Olive wood, Knife baskets, Mottoes, Microscopes, Necessaires, Puzzles, Pocket Knives, Razors, Rubber Toys, Sycamore goods, Transparent Slates, Teacher’s Bibles, Watch Stands, and Zoetropes.
Holiday Book Sale and Free Gift Wrapping at Brooks Memorial Library
The 10th Annual Friends of Brooks Memorial Library Holiday Book Sale will be held in the Library on Thursday and Friday, December 3 and 4 from 10 AM to 6 PM and Saturday, December 5 from 10 AM to 5 PM.
Gift quality books and gently used fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and CDs will be on sale. Non-fiction titles include art, cooking and gardening, history, music and more subjects. Book sale discount coupons are now available from the Front Desk of the Library.
First Wednesday Lecture Series: Glenn Andres The Buildings of Vermont at Brooks Memorial Library
Join Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres on Wednesday, December 2, at 7 PM in the library’s main room. He will examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of Vermont’s built landscape. Andres’s talk will look beyond Vermont’s pastoral stereotypes to examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of its built landscape.
Andres has taught, primarily in the areas of architectural and urban history, at Middlebury since 1970. His research spans from the Italian Renaissance through 19th century America to postmodernism. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University and a PhD in architectural history from Princeton University.
His doctoral dissertation on the Villa Medici in Rome was pursued while a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Underwriter: Crosby-Gannett Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation. The event is free and open to the public.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Weekly Menu – December 1 to December 4
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 1 to December 4
December 1 Stuffed Chicken Breast
Red Skin Potato
Butternut Squash
Cranberry Mousse
Supper/Dance Saturday in Guilford – Barn Collapse Benefit
Broad Brook Grange will present a benefit supper and contradance on Saturday, December 5, beginning at 5:00 pm at the Grange hall in Guilford Center. The proceeds will benefit a local farm which suffered a barn collapse due to a weather event.
On Thursday, October 29, a rare “microburst” hit the town of Guilford, with unusually high wind gusts, bringing down the roof under construction on a new dairy barn at the Clark Farm, injuring a family member and carpenter Tom Henry of Guilford. Saturday’s fundraiser will assist the Clark Farm, as well as Mr. Henry.
The evening begins with supper served from 5-7 pm, which will include homemade chili, spaghetti, breads, salads, dessert, featuring apple crisp, and beverages prepared by Grange and community chefs.
Brattleboro Winter Parking 2015-2016
The Brattleboro Parking Department would like to advise everyone that the winter parking ban will go into effect, starting Saturday, December 5, 2015. Overnight parking is forbidden on all streets in the town of Brattleboro. Vehicles parked for longer than one (1) hour between 11:00pm and 07:00am may be ticketed and towed at the owners expense.
I-91 To Close Tuesday Dec 8 and Wednesday Dec 9 at Exit 2 and 3
I-91 between Exits 2 and 3 will be closed to complete preventative maintenance before the winter season begins in earnest.
On Tuesday, December 8, I-91 SOUTHBOUND will be closed between exits 3 & 2 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
On Wednesday, December 9, I-91 NORTHBOUND will be closed between exits 2 & 3 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
BCTV Schedules For The Week Of 12/30/15
BCTV channel 8 program schedule for the week of 11/30/15
Monday, November 30, 2015
12:00 am Opiate Use in Vermont: The Present Reflects the Past
1:22 am Historic Crimes and Justice in Burlington, VT – Jeffrey H. Beerworth
2:00 am 1st Wednesdays Presents: John Hockenberry – Climate of Doubt
3:45 am Moana: A Short Story
