The Selectboard, having learned of potential alternatives to ease financial burdens for tenants and landlords, will reconsider an ordinance that would cap the up-front costs required to rent an apartment in town. In December, the town will take up the proposal from the Tenants Union of Brattleboro (TUB) for a town ordinance that would prohibit landlords from collecting advance rent from a new tenant beyond the first month's rent and a security deposit. Most housing organizations cite a 5-percent vacancy...
BRATTLEBORO-Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 181–183 Main St., welcomes everyone to "Painter's Ethos," a group exhibit featuring paintings by David Brewster, Jim Giddings, Petria Mitchell, David Rohn, Donald Saaf, Joseph Salerno, James Urbaska, and Dan Welden. The exhibit opens with an artist reception Saturday, April 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition continues through June 15. The eight artists in "Painter's Ethos," in spite of obvious differences, share the ethos - the culture, the joy of painting - as they search...
Interesting that Kevin Maloney mentions the new downtown signal system [“Why won't Brattleboro do what's needed for pedestrian safety?,” Viewpoint, March 28]. When it was being installed and going through its lengthy shakedown cruise, everybody was suddenly a traffic engineer, complaining about how the system was actually slowing traffic down and suggesting how it might be improved to make the traffic speed up. I myself wrote a letter in praise of Slow Traffic, urging the engineers to preserve Brattleboro's perennial...
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