News and information sections, from near to far
The Brattleboro Tree Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 7:00pm in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
Brattleboro’s recognition of MLK, Jr. Day remains unresolved, with the Selectboard asking for more information to compare the options of adding and swapping holidays for employees.
The board had a long conversation about the future of the Melrose property, and specifically whether it would or could become a burden on the town. The Brattleboro Housing Authority said they didn’t want it to be a burden, but the board wanted further clarification before approving the PUD for Red Clover Commons.
The Entergy Funds committee is looking at their options, the skatepark visits nearly led to fisticuffs, town finances are preliminarily good, and the Selectboard approved goals. All this and more below.
The Brattleboro Entergy Settlement Funds Working Group will meet on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 12:00 noon at in the Planning Services Department, Suite 202, at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
Brattleboro’s Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) committee has met two times and continues to meet every other week on Wednesday nights at 6:30 PM in the Municipal Building. Next meeting is August 13th.
You are welcome to come and listen / participate.
You can also start asking questions and posting comments here on i-Brattleboro.
The PCL+FIGG Team will conduct the next on-site “trail talk” for the Public on Saturday, August 9, 2014.
These trail talks will discuss the status of the I-91 Brattleboro Bridge Project and allow the public to ask questions. The talks will originate at the West River Trail near the marina. The trail talk will be led by Caleb Linn, Project Manager for PCL (lead contractor), and Garrett Hoffman, Design Manager for FIGG (bridge designer).
Interested participants should meet the PCL+FIGG Team at the West River Trail trailhead on Saturday, August 9, 2014, at 8 a.m. and the talk will begin at 8:15 a.m. Participants will walk the trail to the I-91 bridge site, so please wear appropriate clothing and footwear.
Will there be free parking on Martin Luther King Jr. Day? The Brattleboro Selectboard will receive holiday observance options from the Interim Town manager at their first Tuesday meeting of August. They will also hear a preliminary report of the financials of 2014, discuss Entergy funds, hold public hearings for zoning changes, accept grants, and more.
Attend in person or watch on BCTV, and feel free to bring up items not otherwise on the agenda.
The Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC) will hold a special meeting on Monday, August 4, 2014 at 10:00am in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
The Brattleboro Energy Committee will hold a meeting on Monday, August 4, 2014 at 5:00pm in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
I-91
Northbound I-91 traffic has been relocated onto the southbound bridge. Traffic will remain reduced to one lane in each direction on I-91 until completion of the new bridge. The new bridge will be 104’ wide and is designed to carry all four lanes of traffic –two northbound and two southbound.
Route 30
The speed limit on Route 30 near the work zone has been reduced to 40 mph. This reduction will remain in effect through the Spring of 2016.
Project-related truck activity on Route 30 will continue. Route 30 will be reduced to a single lane intermittently both day and night, with flaggers regulating traffic within the work zone.
Night work on the new bridge will continue at the columns on Route 30. Night work will occur Sunday night, August 3 through Friday night, August 8.
The Brattleboro Arts Committee will meet on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 4:00pm in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
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BRATTLEBORO TOWN ARTS COMMITTEE
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2014 – 4:00 PM
HANNA COSMAN MEETING ROOM
MUNICIPAL CENTER, 230 MAIN STREET, 2ND FLOOR
AGENDA
1) CoreArts Q&A
2) Harmony Lot mural update
3) Art in Municipal Building / High Grove Lot
4) Other
The Brattleboro ADA Advisory Committee will meet on Friday, August 8, 2014 at 10:00am at Marlboro College Graduate Center in the VCIL conference room.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Monday, August 4, 2014 starting at 5:30pm in the Elm Street parking lot. The Board will visit three locations to review potential skatepark sites.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
Vendor applications are now being accepted for the ninth season of the Winter Farmers’ Market which will again be held at the River Garden in the heart of Brattleboro, VT. Space for new vendors is limited but interested parties are encouraged to submit an application prior to the September 1 deadline.
The Winter Market opens on November 1 for the 2014/2015 season and will be open every Saturday through March 28, 2015 for a total of 22 markets. The regular market hours for the Winter Farmers’ Market will be 10 am to 2 pm with hours extended to 3 pm for holiday shopping on the three December markets before Christmas.
Countercurrents.org
Bill Quiqley renown law professor and Associate Legal Director of Center for Constitutional Rights concludes in his topical 4th of July article, Sixty Five Million Left Out of July 4,’ “This July 4 can be an opportunity to remember them and rededicate ourselves and our country to making these promises real for all people in the US.” [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38968.htm]
Your author, an expat American with Korean and Vietnamese family and friends throughout the 66 nations he has worked in – most all bombed by his fellow Americans, suggests, that as Martin Luther King said, the priority of massive life saving through enforcing the laws of humanity is morally and infinitely more important to be advocating firstly and before one’s own community’s selfish concerns. Nothing is more precious life itself. Nothing of greater satisfation than saving someone else’s life.
Countercurrents.org, Kerela, India and Minority Perspective, UK
List of articles which fail any intention to bring the law down upon the perpetrators of genocide in Gaza, a continuation of the colonial crime against humanity in Palestine, that forced creation, through a fomented war, of a new colonial state in British occupied territory. UN as successor to the League of Nations was obliged to respect and bring democratic independence to in fairness to all its residents
It is shocking how few are calling, and have not called over the years, for prosecution of Israelis under the universally recognized and signed on to Nuremberg Laws on genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace. (And please everyone don’t be drawn in to any purposefully equivocating discussion of ‘war crimes,’ because there hasn’t been a war since World War Two, despite the deceptive labeling as a ‘war’ every years-long ‘police action’ or ‘humanitarian intervention’ by the Neocolonial Powers in order to foster protective Geneva Convention status to military forces bombing, invading and occupying smaller nations.)
Several Town staff members will be required to attend an in-service training during the morning of July 30, 2014 from 8:30am to 10:00am. The opening time for the following offices will be delayed until 10:00am on Wednesday, July 30:
Town Manager
Finance
Treasurer
The Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC) will meet on Monday, July 28, 2014 at 5:30pm in the community room at the Brooks Memorial Library.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
The Brattleboro Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Committee/Working Group will meet on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 6:30pm in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center.
Jan Anderson
Executive Secretary
Brattleboro Town Manager’s Office
(802) 251-8100
July 25, 2014
PUBLIC NOTICE
Paving work on a section of Western Avenue is tentatively scheduled for the third week of August. A contract with The Lane Construction Corp was approved by the Selectboard last Tuesday. The State has agreed to reimburse the Town for work on this class 1 road up to $150,000.
The area we are working on begins near Brattle Street, west to Edward Heights. Only the traveled portion of Western Avenue from white fog line to white fog line is being resurfaced. First a milling machine will remove ¾ inch of existing asphalt along each fog line, tapering to 0 at six feet in. Then this area is resurfaced at an average depth of ¾ inch, raising the center line depth and matching flush at the fog lines.
It has been reported elsewhere that the Selectboard will do prospective skatepark site visits on Monday Aug 4th, from 5:30 to 7. They’ll be going from Elm St to Crowell, then Living Memorial Park. It was requested that skaters attend to provide input. I am unable to attend, so I’m providing my feedback here. I’ve been thinking about this—again—lately, confounded whether to shut up, or push through to the end, come what may.
It seems to me for a fully informed view, the Selectboard has the opportunity to see three skateparks, all within an hour, that show a working model of each of the current options on the table. Keene, Northampton, Fitchburg. Respectively: a steel and steely downtown park, a new concrete plaza in a green space adjacent to homes, and a varied terrain multi-featured skate facility within the town’s mixed-use recreation center, also set in a residential neighborhood. But I don’t expect these visits to happen. And besides they only provide a snapshot of what goes on in the moment. Skatepark energies and usage vary like New England weather.
