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.
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...
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...
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...
BRATTLEBORO-Ashlyn and Abraham McClurg of Rebop Farm on Sunset Lake Road are reeling but resilient, trying to recover from the collapse of their barn under a load of ice and snow on Sunday, Feb. 16. "We're exhausted and in shock, but there's no other way but through, and the animals need taken care of so, that's what we'll do," Abraham McClurg said Monday. "The weather certainly isn't making it any easier today and tonight, though." When the four-year-old, 40-ft.-by-100-ft. hoop...
BRATTLEBORO-Before the Windham Southeast School District school board approved a $67.7 million budget for the next fiscal year to send to voters at the Tuesday, March 18 annual meeting, much of the discussion centered around the need for improvements to the Tenney Field grandstand at Brattleboro Union High School. With a commitment already for $12 million in capital projects over the next few years, said Business Manager Frank Rucker, Tenney Field improvements are budgeted for $150,000 annually for the next...
BRATTLEBORO-Voters in the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will consider a $67.7 million fiscal year 2026 budget with a $3.2 million capital expense to improve the Tenney Field grandstand [see sidebar] when they meet March 18. With 2,300 students in the district, that means a $15,851-per-pupil expense rate - a 6.7% per-pupil spending increase, said Finance Committee Chair Shaun Murphy. In the budget, approved unanimously by WSESD directors, average town homestead tax rates are expected to decline by 3%, Murphy...
BRATTLEBORO-Property taxes are expected to increase by 12.1% over this year if voters approve the Selectboard's recommended $25,184,081 million fiscal 2026 town budget at the Saturday, March 22 Annual Representative Town Meeting (ARTM). Total expenses are actually up 9.2%. "This budget is not about process," Town Manager John Potter told the Selectboard Jan. 21. "It's about policies and priorities that the Selectboard has chosen this year." He said the budget's objective is "maintaining quality of life in the face of...