Town Meeting Members hashed out town and school budgetary business during the long-day-into-night Annual Representative Town Meeting, a marathon that inspired one meeting observer to note that it was the most cantankerous he had witnessed. Underpinning many of the questions meeting members posed were fears over fiscal prudence. Discussion on the school budget question took six hours. Discussion on the municipal budget boiled down to debate on the police/fire upgrade project, marked by voters' remorse. The meeting, held at the...
The New England Center for Circus Arts reopened over the summer with extensive COVID-19 safety precautions, and the center says the upcoming fall session “brings the fitness, joy, and creativity that students are familiar with in a safe way.” In-person class structures have been rearranged to reinforce social distancing and mask wearing, and students who are unable to come in person to NECCA can still include circus fitness in their lives through new virtual programming. Virtual options focus on at-home...
Since I published my Viewpoint in The Commons [“No more secrecy,” Voices, Aug. 11], detailing the various investigations into Robert “Zeke” Hecker's behavior with students over the years and the culture of complicity that gave him ongoing access to them, numerous other people have come forward with stories of grooming and abuse by Hecker and others at Brattleboro Union High School. I have been working with local parents, survivors, and advocates to push for actions from BUHS and the Windham...
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