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It’s Representative Town Meeting Day in Brattleboro.
Representatives are filing in and getting settled, as are those of us who plan on covering today’s event. I have to say, I’m pretty tired from all the work on the new site, so I especially apologize in advance for spelling errors and such.
Usually, however, as they get into the more interesting debates of the day, this becomes less of a chore and more fun. I’m counting on it today.
The Brattleboro Citizen Police Communications Committee (CPCC) will meet on Monday, March 26, 2018, at 5:30pm at the Brooks Memorial Library in the community meeting room (2nd floor).
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Monday, March 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. The new Selectboard members will be sworn in and the Board will elect officers. An ASL interpreter will be available for deaf and hard-of-hearing community members.
INSTIG8, an arm of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation, will help small businesses and nonprofits create their own website in a workshop to be held on Thursday, April 29 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm at the BDCC office at the Cotton Mill.
Date: March 22, 2018 Nature of call: Building fire
Address: 55 South Main St Time of Call: 11:33am
Type of Building: 2 ½ story Multi Family w/attached 2 story barn
Number of Alarms and Times: 2nd alarm @ 11:36am Under Control: 11:55am
The Brattleboro Selectboard approved a new contract with Brattleboro firefighters Tuesday evening. Negotiations began in 2016, stalled, resumed, and just recently wrapped up. Firefighters will be getting a retroactive raise going back to when the process began.
Liquor licenses, a finance report, a grant for bulletproof vests, and an update on Windham Regional Commission were all punctuated by news that this meeting was John Allen’s final regular selectboard meeting.
The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) will hold two public hearings on the proposed Windham Regional Energy Plan as an amendment to the Windham Regional Plan at 6:30pm on Monday April 9 at the Townshend Town Hall and Thursday April 12, 2018 at The Westminster Institute.
Anybody got a pair or two of old sneakers they’re not using?
I want to tie the laces together and toss them over the telephone wires.
At the next regular meeting of the Brattleboro Selectboard, five local establishments will discuss recent liquor violations and corrective actions taken since. If the board is satisfied with their responses, they’ll be granted their annual liquor license renewals.
Lucy Terry Prince is considered the nation’s first African American poet, who raised her family and fought to keep her land in Guilford Vermont.
The Brattleboro Tree Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at 6:30pm in the conference room at the Gibson Aiken Center (207 Main Street).
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 6:00pm in the gymnasium at the Academy School. It is anticipated that the Board will enter into executive session at 6:00pm to discuss labor relations agreements with employees. No further Selectboard business will be conducted.
The Town of Brattleboro would like to remind everyone that the snow emergency ban is in effect.
The Brooks Memorial Library will close at 5:00 today, Wednesday, March 7th due to the weather. The First Wednesday Lecture scheduled for this evening has been postponed until June 6th.
The board had a discussion of winter road conditions, causes of potholes, methods of repairing potholes, and specific reasons why Western Avenue has so many of them.
The board considered a letter to state education officials asking to support the results of the vote against a school district merger, as it would negatively impact Brattleboro taxes. The Brewer’s Fest permit was approved, Brattleboro Words are being explored and celebrated, and a pile of tires near the Marina is a problem for plants and animals in the vicinity.
Dear Library Community,
A short agenda is in store for a Town Meeting Day Selectboard meeting, to be held at the Library as to accomodate voters at the Municipal Center.
The Brattleboro Energy Committee will meet on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 5:00pm in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room at the Municipal Center.
The next meeting of the West Brattleboro Association (WBA) will be held on Thursday, March 8th
at 7:00 PM in the Hayes Court Community Room on Garfield Drive (just west of the West Brattleboro Post Office).
