Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald has good news about the Brattleboro Police Department's finances and operations. For Fiscal Year 2020, costs are going down by $1,125, signifying a 0.1 percent reduction from the department's FY19 budget. Revenue is also estimated to go down by just over 11 percent, but nearly all of this reduction will provide some relief to overworked officers. Fitzgerald appeared at the budget-related special Selectboard meeting on Nov. 13 to provide details and figures on his department's proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-Theatre Adventure invites the public to help celebrate its 20th anniversary with the screening of A Ballad of Belonging, a documentary honoring Theatre Adventure's past, present, and future, on Friday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St. Some of Theatre Adventure's actors will don the costumes of their favorite characters from previous shows. They will engage with the audience before the screening and participate in a brief talkback session afterward. A Ballad of Belonging is...
By way of taking to task Tim Wessel for criticizing those of us who are righteously standing up against Israel's genocidal assault upon the people of Gaza, I offer the following. People need to remember that our opposition is part of a growing worldwide condemnation of Israel's behavior as an outlaw state, including the United Nation's International Court of Justice finding this past January that Israel was "plausibly" perpetuating genocide in Gaza, and thus ordering its government to "take measures...
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