Oct 16 Mac & Cheese
Stewed Tomatoes
Garlic Bread
Peaches
Possible ARPA projects, budget planning, charter changes and state priorities will fill the air of the next Brattleboro Selectboard meeting.
You are invited to bring up other items not on the agenda as long as you aren’t Dale Joy talking about the police department.
The public is invited to attend a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 18 at 7:00pm via Zoom that explores how the arts are a powerful tool for social and political change. The event is sponsored by Vermont Independent Media’s (VIM), Media Mentoring Project.
The Brattleboro RTM Human Services Committee will meet on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 at 4:30pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room (and over Zoom) for their annual Q and A session with potential applicants. Anyone wishing to apply for Human Services funding this year is highly encouraged to attend.
The Brattleboro RTM Human Services Committee will meet on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 4:30pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room (230 Main Street) for a Q and A session with potential applications.
The Brattleboro Traffic Safety Committee meeting will meet on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 8:00am over Zoom.
For most of my life I have tried to keep an open mind about the perpetual conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. When there is a near-constant state of war both sides do things that oppress innocent people and make life difficult.
As a full-of-myself 20 year old I thought I had all the answers. It seemed black and white to me when I was in Israel in 1970. The Israelis had all the power and they were suppressing the Arab population. When I met my father’s cousins who had walked from Russia to Palestine in 1920 to escape the brutality of the Czar’s pogroms against Jews I told them I thought Israel was treating Arabs the same way that the Jews had been treated by the Nazis. They were outraged and didn’t speak to me for a few days. They decided to chalk up my remarks to youthful arrogance and innocence.
Over the past 54 years I have come to understand that this conflict is always in the grey area and I have tried to be sympathetic to both sides. But everything changed last week when Hamas attacked Israel.
I don’t know what possessed me. But I can tell you it wasn’t just one thing. Recent events that led to the epiphany, if you can call it that, were set in motion by the massive Nor’Easter this past winter. We had a lot of trees come down on the property, big ones too. When spring came around I saw the damage done to the trampoline- wrecked- as well the old wooden wheel-barrow my partner inherited from her grandfather. Amazingly, the little pram that sat by the edge of the lawn was untouched, yet fallen timber was splayed all around it. That boxy boat hadn’t sailed in ages, I figured it’d make a good sandbox for the grandkids someday. “Shoebox is more like it,” partner posited. I offered no rejoinder.
Maybe it was all the screens. Or the news. Or the rampant selfishness, greed, stupidity, privilege… that seemed on the rise everywhere. Maybe I was tired of carrying the burden of disappointment on top of so much hyper-mediated inundation. In any case, the idea to time-travel a bit on my own terms was hatched, eccentric and odd yes, yet strangely edifying too. My partner knew it was better to let a notion like this run its course rather than trying to talk sense into me. And in fact the idea of restoring the wooden boat with salvaged natural elements from the storm, making spars and oars from tree limbs, using the intact canvas as a sail, and fashioning wheelbarrow handles and its smashed sides into a rudder- Yeah it was kooky I’ll admit- but I had the tools and time, and it’s a fact, a bit of ingenuity and effort mixed with fun can keep the wolf from the door- psychologically speaking.
Events for Oct 11
1724
Fort Dummer was attacked by about seventy of the enemy and four or five of its occupants were killed or wounded, but the attack was repulsed. It does not appear to have been attacked afterward.
The enemy? I wonder why they do not name the enemy?
Guilford Center Stage’s first autumn production in four years brings Haunts of the Season to the stage at Broad Brook Community Center on October 20-22. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm. The production is helmed by local playwright/director Michael Nethercott with a cast of sixteen. The show is a combination of original plays by Nethercott and a bevy of creepy classics.
Included are monologues, songs, and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and others. Robert Frost’s poem/play “The Witch of Coos” is among the offerings. Also featured are several works by Nethercott himself, with influences by Vermont legends, ghost lore, and The Twilight Zone.
The veteran cast includes (in alphabetical order) Cyndi Cain Fitzgerald, Richard Epstein, Jennifer Gagnon, Jenny Holan, Archer Holland, Julie Holland, Cassandra Holloway, Joel Kaemmerlen, Cassidy Majer, Stewart McDermet, Aaron Morse, Hunter Savage, Marvin Shedd, Carolyn Taylor-Olson, and Bob Tucker. Nethercott acts as host. Stage Manager for this production is Sue Shedd, with tech work by Maria Pugnetti. Don McLean is producer.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
5:00 am Governor Scott Press Conference – Response to VT Flooding 9/6/23
6:05 am Windham Solid Waste Management District Presents – Easy Peasy Food Scrap Drop-off
6:15 am Brattleboro Selectboard – Brattleboro SB Mtg 10/3/23
9:00 am The David Pakman Show – The David Pakman Show – Weekly Broadcast
Book is about the arming of madman Hitler’s Nazi Germany that made a war that killed off 3% of the world’s population at that time (which included the mega horrific Holocaust). – each chapter presents something astounding Larger scope of the book is corp. war investor control of the world as their criminal media holds our attention on subterfuge.
Exposes the myth that the US played a benevolent role in world affairs
Oct. 9 CLOSED FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY
Oct. 10 Teriyaki Pork Loin
Brown Rice w/Green Beans & Onion
Beets
Tropical Fruit
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