BRATTLEBORO-Elected meeting members will convene Representative Town Meeting (RTM) on Saturday, March 22 at 8:30 a.m. in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium to consider a recommended $25,184,081 fiscal 2026 budget that could mean a 12.1% increase in property taxes.
If the meeting is not completed by 5 p.m., the body assembled will decide whether to continue the meeting or to reconvene on Sunday, March 23.
A full house of folks turned out at Academy School on March 12 for a pre-RTM informational meeting to review the 18-article warning.
Articles also include spending $131,698.86 through special assessments on property within the Mountain Home Park Special Benefit Assessment Tax District to pay debt service on the capital improvements to the water and sewer lines serving the Mountain Home and Deepwood mobile home parks.
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and its co-developer, Evernorth, have received a $6.2 million funding boost from the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board to help redevelop the historic Chalet property. The redevelopment is planned to preserve the original Chalet building and create a new neighborhood with a...
BRATTLEBORO-Unofficial Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) March 4 election results say newcomer Jocelyn Fritts will take a seat at the table to represent Guilford instead of former Board Director Kelly Young, but a recount has been requested and is now being scheduled. Running for a first time, Fritts, who...
BRATTLEBORO-As three newcomers prepare to take seats on the Selectboard, at least one outgoing incumbent isn't surprised. "Any incumbent was going to lose," said Franz Reichsman of the March 4 town election results. "You raise people's taxes like that, and there's going to be some blowback for sure." Adding, with some humor, "I didn't expect to win, but I didn't expect to be dead last," Reichsman went on to say, "this was an anti-incumbent, anti-Selectboard vote." Coming on board to...
BRATTLEBORO-After 14 years as assistant town manager, Patrick Moreland is stepping down to become the executive director of DVFiber, the nonprofit fiber-optic Internet provider serving southeastern Vermont. Moreland has been assistant town manager since 2011, serving with Barbara Sondag, then–town manager. Her tenure was followed by those of Peter Elwell, Yoshi Manale, and current Town Manager John Potter. Moreland did stints as interim town manager twice: for six months in 2022 and for a 19-month "opportunity," as he calls it,
Newcomer Jocelyn Fritts and former board member Kelly Young are vying for a three-year term on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) board representing Guilford in the Tuesday, March 4, election. The seat has come available following longtime representative Shaun Murphy's retirement from the board. This is the only contested race for a seat at the WSESD table. Running unopposed are Matthew J. Schibley, for a three-year term representing Brattleboro; Jessica L. Everlith, who was appointed in January, for her...
Most voters throughout the county will assemble on Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 4. Voters in Athens, Brattleboro, Brookline, Rockingham, Vernon, Windham, and Westminster will convene on their own respective timetables, and Marlboro voters won't meet at all, with voters making all decisions by Australian ballot. According to the Vermont Secretary of State's office, "Vermont law makes Town Meeting a holiday for employees of the state government." State law "also gives an employee the right to take unpaid leave...
BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 4, and eight candidates are competing for three seats on the Selectboard. The following overviews have been compiled with the help of information and responses from candidates gathered from the League of Women Voters. The Commons and the Brattleboro Reformer are both media partners in the nonpartisan organization's civic engagement efforts. Two candidates vie for three-year seat Oscar Heller is a Representative Town Meeting...