BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
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Guilford Free Library trustees, meeting last month for their first meeting since a proposed library expansion plan was re-voted and defeated, hope to move forward with a new plan for renovation. According to minutes for the trustees' June 20 meeting, Town Administrator Peder Rude has said the trustees can move forward with an addition if a proposal to do so is approved by library trustees and the Selectboard and if it doesn't require town money. Librarian Cathi Wilken says that...
We support Selectboard members David Schoales and Brandie Starr, who first brought up the issue of active recruitment of people of color for town jobs here in Brattleboro at the May 2 Selectboard meeting. We also encourage a broader dialogue to recognize and understand systemic racism and racist push-back in our town. Our position is best stated by paraphrasing Mr. Schoales, who during the May 2 meeting did a very good job of explaining why concerted effort is necessary to...
Boston-based early music ensemble In Stile Moderno returns to Brattleboro on Friday, May 24, at 8 p.m., for the final concert of its 2018-2019 season, with “La Vesuviana: Tracing the Sources of Neapolitan Folk Music,” a concert that blends the rhythms of Italian folk music with 17th-century works. Inspired by the connections between the living tradition of Southern Italian folk music and early music from the same region, the ensemble's founders, Brattleboro native Nathaniel Cox (cornetto and theorbo) and Agnes...
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