If you’re a fan of “Live and Local” on WKVT and for whatever reason can’t listen to it live on-air, the shows can now be heard online or on your iPod/MP3 player any time.
To listen online, go to http://1490wkvt.com/live-and-local/ and choose your podcast from the list at the right. You’ll have the option to listen in a browser window, or download a podcast to your computer.
Latchis Arts is going for it! With nearly 80% of the funds raised so far, the non-profit group is committed to closing the main auditorium of the Latchis Theatre on August 1, in order to replace the seats and restore the historic zodiac ceiling, dubbed the Campaign for The Heavens and The Earth.
With only $118,000 to go out of the campaign goal of $550,000, “all the pieces are in place. There’s no turning back!” according to Managing Director Gail Nunziata.
WASHINGTON, July 9 – Responding to more than 700 emails from college students and graduates in Vermont and around the nation, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called today for restoring student the loan interest rate to the level that was charged before the rate doubled on July 1 to 6.8 percent.
“We have a major crisis in our country today in terms of the high cost of college and the incredible debt burden that college students and their families are facing,” Sanders said in a Senate floor speech. “Our job is to improve that situation, to lessen the burden on students and their families – not to make it worse.”
Sanders read from some of the emails he received about how student loans have affected people’s careers and families.
When leaving work around 2 on Friday, I–for some crazy reason–decided to drive through town. Traffic was very heavy, including pedestrian traffic. To my surprise, the lights were flashing , resulting in driving chaos, and making it practically suicidal for pedestrians, I ended up belligerently holding up traffic behind me to allow a lady to cross the street who had been waiting for quite a while in the hot sun.
Who makes the decision on those lights? I am going to have to dissagree with the decision on Friday, unless it was unavoidable. I was very relieved to reach Gougers Market, as I saw many close calls involving turning cars, stressed pedestrians, and generally busy traffic.
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July 9th-from 6-7pm its…Phil Farruggio..he is the son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC longshoremen. He is a small businessman, activist leader and free lance columnist. Philip is an advocate for the 25% Solution to cut military spending to save our state and city budget shortfalls. His latest column on Sleuthjournal.com talks about the serfdom of the American people.
July 16th—nothing scheduled and may be on vacation
July 23rd–Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance investigative reporter for over 30 years.
Southeastern Vermont Watershed Alliance’s (SeVWA’s) water quality monitoring program was begun about 10 years ago. At that time, in 2003, the organization was known as West River Watershed Alliance (WRWA). Our 2013 stream monitoring program began on Wednesday, June 19th and this past Wednesday was SeVWA’s second 2013 river sampling day.
Things went well for most volunteer monitors on Wednesday morning – though rivers and streams were running murky, high and fast. Volunteers typically sample between 6 – 7:30 AM on scheduled monitoring days. Because of the amount of rain that had fallen in the region the previous 24-48 hours, the water level and flow was too deep and fast for three sites to be sampled along the Williams River, but generally the sampling, drop-off/pick-up/delivery schedule for getting samples to the lab for testing went smoothly.
BCTV Ch.8 Schedule for the week of 7/8/13
Monday July 8
12:00 am 2013 Slow Living Summit: Summing up Slow Living
2:00 am FSTV Overnight
4:00 am The Road to Recovery: Discoveries and Development in Behavioral Health
5:00 am John Henry Hopkins, Sr. and Jr Exhibit
5:50 am The Educational Network is the Learning Revolution
Brattleboro Gets Ready to Dance
BRATTLEBORO, VT—TV dance shows have boosted the interest in dance. From little kids to college students to baby boomers more and more people are interested in dance. This hype has helped draw attention to dance programs at colleges and universities across the country. Now, Brattleboro, Vermont looks to boost economic development and morale following the devastating effects of 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene with a major dance festival —The .
The festival is slated for July 18 to July 21, 2013 and will take place for the most part in downtown Brattleboro with time in between workshops for people shop and enjoy the town. The four-day festival will be filled with lectures, workshops, performance, live music and community events taught by world-class faculty.
What’s all the blue stuff in this picture?
The picture is of the Bavarian town of Stadtsteinach in the Frankenwald, about a four-hour train ride from the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The town is described by Thom Hartmann in his book Rebooting the American Dream.
Here’s how Thom describes it.
This week’s concert is Aerosmith live in Houston on June 24, 1977, a few years prior to their need to “come back” with Run DMC in the 1980’s.
Are they New England’s best rock band? Are they America’s best rock band?
The Brattleboro Tree Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 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
The Brattleboro ADA Advisory Committee will meet on Friday, July 12, 2013 at 10:00am at the Marlboro College Graduate Center in the VCIL conference room.
The Brattleboro Arts Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 4:00pm in the Selectboard meeting room at the Municipal Center.
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 4:30pm in the Hanna Cosman meeting room at the Municipal Center.
The state offices currently located on Linden Street will be moving back to their permanent home at 232 Main Street in downtown Brattleboro in late July. The offices on Linden Street will be closed at that time.
Transport of equipment will begin on Friday July 26 and will happen over the course of the weekend. Offices located in the building include:
the Vermont Department of Labor;
the Vermont Department of Health;
the Department for Children and Families Economic Services and Family Services Divisions;
the Agency of Human Services Field Services Division;
and the Department of Vermont Health Access Chronic Care initiative.
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Majority Mankind Watched July 4 Fireworks Recalled Spectacular US Cruel Night Bombing Baghdad
by jay janson
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Baghdad, ancient exotic marvel in the cradle of human civilization, Mesopotamia, ‘the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers,’ where the first cities on Earth were created. Did Independence Day bring uneasy feelings about America eventually being brought to justice for so much firing on the poor overseas and denying other nations independence from subservience to America’s Wall Street? Majority Mankind will seek justice
This 4rth of July, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the battle of Gettysburg. It is worth noting the important part that soldiers from our state played in that battle.
I’m not a Civil War history buff, but I have read Howard Coffin’s Nine Months to Gettysburg. It is the account of the Second Vermont Brigade whose nine month enlistment was days from expiring when the fighting at Gettysburg began.
Yesterday I was driving North on 142 in a wooded section of Vernon, when a very large brown bird flew across the highway. A split second later, 2 such birds recrossed the highway
They were NOT turkeys, vultures, hawks or ospreys.
I’m thinking golden eagles, but it appears they are extremely rare in Vermont.
Upstate Vermont, central Vermont, Albany New York area, and multiple parts of New Hampshire have experianced in some cases over six inches of rain in the last few days. New Hampshire and New York have decleared states of emergency to deal with well over thirty roads made unpassible as a result of these rains. All this disaster going on and not even a minute of news coverage last night.
A few years ago the similar damage occured and it made national news. It seems that this is the new normal. Flooding and destructive storms everyday. Some place in the USA is facing some type of natural disaster. This seems big news to me yet it is becoming so common that I hear people in the blogs saying they are tired of hearing about it.
Happy independence day. Stay healthy drink lots of water and come out to enjoy the Fourth of July’s parade and events here in Brattleboro. Bring an umbrella a nice way to stay in the shade….
The classical remark which gets parents to explain right and wrong to their child.
But how often do adults make this remark in board rooms and business meetings? Have you ever been in a situation where “everyone does it” was the justification for questionable conduct, and if so how did you respond?
SK-B
