BRATTLEBORO — So the question remains: Will there be a forum for those in opposition to the Crowell Lot for the proposed skatepark?
According to an article in The Commons [“Meeting gathers skatepark ideas,” Oct. 3], “the School Board, the Selectboard and the Development Review Board have all signed off on the project as it now stands and all would have to be consulted if there were major changes.”
How did this pass through the hands of these committees without public input?
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Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts will host an artist talk with Matt Brown on Saturday, April 21, at 5 p.m. Brown will discuss his current exhibit “Conversations with Color Woodblock Prints,” on display at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts through May 6. The talk will include a demonstration by Brown of the Japanese hanga method of printmaking used by Hokusai, Kunisada, and Hiroshige, a technique in which each print is created entirely by hand, using water and pigments applied to multiple carved wooden blocks.
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