Before kick off at the Super Bowl, a moment of silence for the Afghani children that have been starved to death by the American government impounding their food money would have been appropriate. It would have shown that Americans care and wish their government would unfreeze the more than 9 $billion so Afghani children can be fed and go on living. Some US Congressmen and women spoken out.
Absentee ballots for the Brattleboro Annual Town Meeting and Windham Southeast School District vote to be held March 1, are now available. Due to the pandemic, voters are encouraged to vote absentee. Absentee ballots for these two elections must be requested. Anyone wishing to vote absentee may apply for an absentee ballot until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 28, although we recommend doing so as soon as possible for mail time purposes.
Absentee ballots may be mailed to the voter by the Clerk’s office, picked up by the voter, or if a voter is in need can be delivered outside of the voter’s location by two Justices of the Peace. All voted ballots must be received by the Clerk before the polls close on election day in order to be counted. For more information or to request an absentee ballot call 251-8157.
The Town of Brattleboro is looking for citizens to serve on the following committees and boards:
ADA Committee
Agricultural Advisory committee – ex officio non-voting members
Arts Committee
Cemetery Committee
Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC)
The Brattleboro RTM Finance Committee will meet on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 6:00pm in the Co-op Community Room.
Jessica Sticklor (she/her)
Executive Assistant
Town of Brattleboro
One Space Left!
No woodworking experience required
Come for some tablesaw practice, leave with an elegant little box!
In this workshop we will use the tablesaw to cut dados, rabbets, and some raised panels, and the router table for a little bit of detailing.
The third installment of the 2021 Brattleboro Real Estate and Personal Property Taxes will be due on February 15, 2022. Payments made after February 15, 2022 will have an additional 1% interest added to the unpaid balance.
The Town of Brattleboro utility bills are also due on February 15, 2022. Payments made after February 15, 2022 will have an additional 1% interest, as well as an 8% penalty added to the unpaid balance.
HatchSpace is offering 2 classes this month that introduce digital design and production for woodworking. With “CNC” designs are created on a computer, which then drives a router to cut out the design on wood or other materials.
Make a Stool with CNC and Fusion 360
In this intro class to digital design and manufacturing, we will break into Fusion 360, a very powerful CAD software. You will be introduced to the basic user interface and be led through the steps of creating a 3D model of a stool. During the design process we will focus on designing the piece for cutting out on a ShopBot CNC Router. You will learn the safety and set up of the CNC router and prepare the machine and a file for a cut. Once cut, we will use a router table, sander, pocket hole jig to finish and assemble the stool.
We need all the help we can get in these difficult and crazy times. It’s worth reinforcing a piece of real news that tells us that music, whether performed or listened to, has the potential to provide the calm and respite from the storms of daily life.
Making music is not only fun, but it allows the performer to transcend the pettiness of daily life and move into a different world. The same is true for listeners. Of all the arts, music and painting provide a glimpse of immortality. We can listen to music and look at paintings that were created hundreds of years ago and they are as much alive now as when they were first offered to the public.
Once you listen to the CD “All They Know” by guitarist and singer Stan Davis of Wayne, Maine it becomes clear that not all the great musicians are rich and famous. Davis has been playing guitar and singing for almost as many years as he has been alive and since he has retired from his day job he has put his energy into becoming a more polished and more publicly active musician.
Davis plays at many local venues and he has a web site: www.standavismusic.com to share his music with people in as many ways possible. His recent CD is a compilation of original songs that he said, “…grew out of my careening journey through music and life. Some are rooted in my own history and experience; some come from an overheard sentence or a persistent memory.”
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER—2:00 p.m. — Kerry Amidon, WSESU Board Chair
II. EXECUTIVE SESSION – 1 V.S.A. §313(a)(3) the appointment or employment of public officer or employee, provided that the public body shall make a final decision to hire or appoint a public officer or employee in an open meeting and shall explain the reasons for its final decision during open meeting.
BCTV Channel 1075 schedule for the week of 2/7/22
Monday, February 7, 2022
5:25 am North Branch Nature Center – Winter Finch Forecast
6:30 am Around Town with Maria – Decolonizing Brattleboro – Wantastegok 8/26/20
6:50 am Stuck in Vermont – Decluttering with Porter Knight
7:00 am All Things LGBTQ – News 1/25/22
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
Agenda
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Small Group Work Time
12:00 -1:00 p.m. – Break
1:00 – 3:00 – Overview of Findings
“America in Color Season” 1 Episode 1..”The 1920’s”….About 9 minutes and 26 seconds in. Available at Smithsonianchannel.com. Also seen on TV on occasion. Narrated by Liev Schreiber.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – David Schoales, Board Chair
II. CONSENT AGENDA
• CLERK’S REPORT – Approval of Minutes – December 14 (pending) and
January 25, 2022
• FINANCES
Warrants of January 18, 2022
Agenda
1. Approval of Minutes
2. Fiscal Year to Date Financial Statement Review
3. FY23 Budget Planning & Development
• Preparation for Public Information Meeting & Annual Report
Elliot Street will be closed to thru traffic from Frost Street to Frost Place onMonday, February 7, 2022 from 7:30am to 3:00pm due to tree removal.
Agenda:
Review and approve minutes
Review draft Finance Report sections (continued)
Other Business
A. 5:15: Call to Order
B. 5:15-5:25: Public Comments
C. 5:25-6:15: Old Business
1. 5:25-6:15 Strategizing for 2022 (Continued from December and January)
1. Call to Order
2. Review of Development Proposals
a. 47 Flat Street LLC; Downtown Historic District; review of proposed design changes as a result of National Park Service review at 47 Flat Street; Tax Map Parcel #275462.00
VOTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VOTE ABSENTEE DUE TO THE PANDEMIC
While ballots won’t be ready until mid-February, you can start requesting your absentee ballots NOW and they will be mailed to you as soon as they’re available! It’s super simple. You can request your ballot/s online –
