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Hi Neighbors,
I’m Lisa McCormick, and I’ll be leading a Halloweeny Ukulele Flash Mob on the Brattleboro Commons this coming Saturday at noon.
Masks are a must, and social distancing is easy, as there is plenty of space for spreading out. Costumes highly encouraged!
I’ll also be live-broadcasting the event on Zoom, so ANYONE can come, from anywhere!
NOTICE OF SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Board will meet remotely at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 via Zoom. Purpose: Personnel/Hiring
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BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 10/26/20
Monday, October 26, 2020
5:00 am Vermont Youth Orchestra – VYOA Plays On – August Concert Special
5:30 am Vote for Vermont – Michelle Bos-Lun 9/24/20
6:00 am Brattleboro Democracy Forum – Tim Kipp 10/10/2020
7:15 am Keeping Up with Senior Solutions – Episode 12 – Fran Freeman
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Here We Are – with guest Samirah Evans
JAZZ KU BOP by Namaya the Jazz Poet
https://namayajazzpoetstoryteller.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-ku-bop-2
The definitive CD of Jazz Ku Bop by Namaya the jazz poet.
“utterly agile and delightful—poetry filtered through a hep-cat cool.” Cyrus Cassells – poet.
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 4:30 p.m. – Thomas Nolan
II. Approval of Minutes – August 24 and September 28, 2020
III. Discuss the next steps for implementing commitment, including Andy’s details on initiating union approval of offering diversity incentives to new hires.
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 10/19/20
Monday, October 19, 2020
4:00 am Education and Enrichment for Everyone – Votes… for Women?
5:00 am How Brattleboro’s Skateboard Park was Built – The Dedication of Perseverance Skateboard Park 10/3/20
6:35 am PR Benefits – Episode 21 – Amy Smith
7:00 am All Things LGBTQ – News 10/6/20
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Brattleboro Rotary Club Speaker Series – Episode 19 – Geoff Hatheway
9:40 am Meet the Candidates – Doug Hoffer, Candidate for Auditor of Accounts (Dem/Rep)
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER – 6:00 p.m. – David Schoales, Board Chair
II. RECOGNITION OF VISITORS
III. CONSENT AGENDA
• CLERK’S REPORT – Approval of Minutes – October 7, 2020
The Brattleboro Words Project is proud to formally announce two new partnerships in the publishing and printing of the much anticipated book, “Print Town: Brattleboro’s Legacy of Words.”
In a culmination of three-years’ of dedicated work, the book, due out this fall, will be published by the Vermont Historical Society, Inc. and printed by Howard Printing in Brattleboro.
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 10/12/20
Monday, October 12, 2020
4:00 am Education and Enrichment for Everyone – Votes… for Women?
5:00 am Yestermorrow Fall Speaker Series – Art as Story Through an Indigenous Lens
6:00 am The News Project – Press Pass – Xander Landen and Kit Norton
6:30 am The News Project – In Studio – A Conversation with Scott Milne
7:00 am All Things LGBTQ – Interview Show 9/29/20
This past week Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on gene editing relating to something called CRISPR. In order to understand what CRISPR is requires a quick lesson in genetics.
CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. But first the basics. Our genetic material is contained in 23 pairs of chromosomes found in each cell in our body. Half of each pair comes from each parent. Genes are the pieces of DNA inside the chromosomes that define the characteristics of an organism.
NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Programmatic and Performance Equity Committee will meet remotely at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 via Zoom:
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 10/5/20
Monday, October 5, 2020
4:15 am The Rhema Word – A Spiritual Revival is Coming
5:00 am The News Project – In Studio – A Conversation with Scott Milne
5:29 am The News Project – Press Pass – Xander Landen and Kit Norton
6:00 am Brattleboro Rotary Club Speaker Series – Episode 18 – Sophia Howlett
6:40 am Meet the Candidates – Sen. Jeanette White, Candidate for State Senator WDH
7:00 am Meet the Candidates – Peter Welch, Candidate for Representative to Congress (D)
NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Board will meet remotely at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 via Zoom:
What does the US flag stand for? As far as all of the values of democracy and rights values are concerned we could more be flying a Swedish or French or any number of sovereign flags that would be better representative. Values these days seem to be changing every day and becoming more and more difficult to name and provide evidence. At this point, with our very uncertain future unfolding before us, the US flag may only be representing a certain defined physical territory that our government believes it is legitimately allowed to control and defend. Our fifty states and our several colonies. (The mere fact that we still have colonies, Puerto Rico being the major, immediately throws our supposed values into question). I believe that our real values are reflected in the way we live. We may have a good selection of moral values on paper but they only apply to those who have the money or other means to access them. It was set up this way from the very beginning (using our constitutional convention in 1788 as the beginning) when access to rights, security, comfort was tied to citizenship and private property of which wealth alone is a major part. From day one money and power swamped democracy.
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/28/20
Monday, September 28, 2020
4:00 am Keeping Up with Senior Solutions – Episode 10 – Pati Kimball
4:33 am Spotlight – Okemo Resort’s Upcoming Season
5:00 am Meet the Candidates – Cris Ericson, Candidate for State Auditor (PROG) 9/2/20
5:20 am Meet the Candidates – Cris Ericson, Candidate for Attorney General (PROG) 8/23/20
5:51 am Poems to Live By – OnLiving by Nazim Hikmet
6:00 am Meet the Candidates – Emily Peyton, Candidate for Governor (Truth Matters)
6:30 am Meet the Candidates – Pamala Smith, Candidate for Secretary of State (I)
NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Board will hold a special meeting remotely at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 25, 2020 via Zoom:
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NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Social Justice Committee will meet remotely at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, September 28, 2020 via Zoom:
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NOTICE OF MEETING
The Windham Southeast School District Programmatic and Performance Equity Committee will meet remotely at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 via Zoom:
BCTV Channel 8 / 1075 schedule for the week of 9/21/20
Monday, September 21, 2020
4:30 am Slow Living Summit – Finance Farming 6/9/20
6:00 am The Mural – A Film by Matt Kelly – The Mural – A Film by Matt Kelly
8:00 am Democracy Now! – Democracy Now! Daily Broadcast
9:00 am Here We Are – with guest Mike Fitzgerald
9:30 am Community Forum – The Politics of Debt and the Green New Deal 8/31/20
Leafing through an old notebook, I found this poem by myself called Petitioning. It was written a long time ago in 2005 but despite the issues being 15 years out of date, it still made me laugh. If you’ve ever petitioned, you might get a chuckle too….
