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Cold Enough For You?
This has been quite the cold snap, eh? A stretch of single and negative digits for over a week. How are you holding up?
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu January 1 thru January 5
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu January 1 thru January 5
Healthcare Storytelling and Letter-writing + Potluck
The January potluck of the Hive Mutual Support Network will feature a letter-writing and storytelling workshop, facilitated by the Healthcare Is A Human Right campaign of the Vermont Workers’ Center. As with all Hive activities, this event is open to the public.
VFW $6 Lunch Specials Open to the Public
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 burgers, fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings, wings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 257-0438
Dog Training Classes Starting Soon!
Dog Training classes in Putney starting next week. Do you have a new pooch that arrived for the holidays? Or is one of your New Years resolutions to get fred some training? Ultimate Companions Dog Training has everything from Puppy Kindergarten to classes for dogs that are reactive to other dogs or people. For more information, contact Bill Grant at info@ultimatecompanion.com or visit www.ultimatecompanion.com.
Help your buddy start the new year off on the right paw!
Thought You Should Know There’s Never Going To Be An End Now To The Fight About Corporations Being “Persons”!
Anyone Know About Pre-Paying Tax?
There’s been a bunch of publicity about some states allowing property owners to pre-pay some or all of their 2018 property tax before the close of 2017 as a work-around of the new federal limit on “SALT” deductions. Anyone know if Vermont allows this? Guess one could phone the appropriate agency, but of course I thought of this after hours! Can find nothing on the Vt tax dept website or anywhere else online about this. Thanks, & HNY.
Brattleboro Solidarity – MLK Day: Annual SpeakOUT
Cold Weather Tips
The National Weather Service is forecasting bitter cold temperatures Wednesday through at least New Year’s Day, including dangerously cold wind chill values. Presently, the immediate forecast is for temperatures to fall to -6 degrees tonight into Wednesday and plummet to -21 degrees with wind chills on Wednesday night into Thursday. The Brattleboro Fire Department would like to remind you of some cold weather tips as we move into the first cold snap of this winter;
VFW $6 Lunch Specials Open to the Public
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 pm. Hand made burgers, fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings, wings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take out available by calling 257-0438.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 25 thru December 29
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 25 thru December 29
Women’s Marching Continues On…
Pellet Stove Replacement Program
Green Mountain Home Repair, a program of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust, is pleased to announce a pellet stove replacement program for Windham County residents. Eligible homeowners will get a price reduction of $2,000 to $4,000 on the cost of purchasing and installing an approved pellet stove to replace an old wood stove, or kerosene or propane heater.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 18 thru December 22
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 18 thru December 22
VFW $6 Lunch Specials Open to the Public
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road is open to the public for lunch. Lunch is served Mon – Fri from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm. Specials listed below are only $6 a plate. Hand made burgers, fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings, wings, soups and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 257-0438.
VFW $6 Lunch Specials Open to the Public
The Brattleboro VFW located at 40 Black Mountain Road is open to the public for lunch. Lunch is served Mon – Fri form 11;30 – 1:30 PM. Specials listed below are only $6 a plate. Hand made burgers, French fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings, soups, and sandwiches are also available. Take out available by calling 257-0438.
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 11 thru December 15
Brattleboro Senior Meals Menu December 11 thru December 15
Free Documentary Film Screening: Standing With Standing Rock, by Director Fidel Moreno
Oscar-nominated director Fidel Moreno will present a FREE screening of his documentary work-in-progress, Standing With Standing Rock, at Brooks Memorial Library on Friday, December 8th, at 6 pm.
Standing with Standing Rock was shot on location, and chronicles the story of the protesters at Standing Rock and their connection to the history of the American Indian Movement on their treaty-given lands of the American west. It has been culled from 18 hours of interviews with 33 people at Standing Rock, including youth, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, First Nation people and non-Indian supporters.
VFW $6 Lunch Specials Open to the Public
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 PM. Specials listed below are only $6 a plate. Hand made burgers, French fries, sweet potato fries, onion rings, soups, and sandwiches are also available. Take outs available by calling 802-257-0438.


