RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
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Beginning this week, Selectboard meetings will take place on Zoom. The decision to change the platform came after the board's discussion about the advantages of using Zoom for Representative Town Meeting, Selectboard Chair Tim Wessel said in a news release. According to Wessel, Zoom is more user-friendly and “more well-known to regular users than GoToMeeting,” the service that the town has been using for remote public meetings during the pandemic. Another plus for using Zoom for Selectboard meetings: The town...
This year marks 47 years for Vermont's unique Green Up Day tradition. Always the first Saturday in May, the event will bring volunteers statewide to the town roads in their communities on May 6 to tackle trash and litter along roadsides, in public spaces, natural landscapes and waterways. Vermont was the first state in the nation to designate one special day for cleaning the entire state. Many thanks to the hardworking state employees at the Agency of Transportation who clean...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present “Historical Depictions of Slavery,” a free talk by art historian Renée Ater, on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. The talk is presented in connection with “Roberto Visani: Form/Reform,” an exhibit of cardboard sculptures that reinterpret past portrayals of enslaved people. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. To create the sculptures in his “cardboard slave kits” series, Visani begins by identifying a historical work of art in which enslaved...
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