The town budget for fiscal year 2015 will stand at $15.7 million after a petition drive to force another townwide vote failed to garner enough signatures. The Brattleboro Town Clerk's office reports that it did not receive enough signatures to launch a second budget referendum by deadline of June 19 at 5 p.m. Representative Town Meeting approved a $15.7 million municipal budget June 3. Voters had defeated a $16 million budget at Annual Representative Town Meeting April 17. Under the...
The Vermont Jazz Center's fifth Emerging Artist Festival begins with youth jazz ensembles performing at 118 Elliot on Friday, Nov. 4, continues on Saturday, Nov. 5 with student groups performing, and culminates on Saturday, Nov. 5 with a clinic and a concert by Grammy-nominated guitarist Dan Wilson. The festival celebrates the contributions of up-and-coming musicians who have not yet acquired the name recognition of older artists but who strongly deserve to be heard - like Wilson, a talent whose career...
In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene hit and brought the state of Vermont to its knees. Recovery was difficult and felt endless. In the immediate aftermath, we had one another, and we had the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The National Guard arrived with manpower and FEMA rode into town with their capes of governmental red tape billowing in the flood mud dust and got right down to the business of business. Our quiet, brookside neighborhood was hit hard. When my...
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