ROCKINGHAM — RE: “Shame on BF for memorial fund vote” [Letters, May 29]:
I believe the Sarah Burr Howard memorial trust should be restored. I agree that the interest it has accumulated is not a lot, but the funds could be used for some good or at least some food or Christmastime gifts or whatever.
Was this even a legal vote to dissolve this trust? It should be reinstated.
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Town staff, Representative Town Meeting members, and a few residents occupied seats on Tuesday night in the same room where the vote to reject the town's budget had taken place the previous week. Town staff looked pensive. Town Clerk Annette Cappy held in her lap a three-ring binder, its spine stamped with budget in large capital letters. Selectboard Chair David Gartenstein told the audience that the town-wide vote that overturned the budget [story, page A1] signaled to the board that...
I deeply appreciated the special focus issue on the pandemic and the arts this past week. Brattleboro and Windham County have such an abundance of residents who are artists and presenters, many of whom are struggling, so I wanted to give a voice to one rather large group of artists that was not mentioned. It is what one might call “trad,” or traditional, musicians. It's hard to tell on a typical day in downtown Brattleboro, but the truth is that...
Vaune Trachtman's “Now is Always” is the inaugural exhibit for the grand reopening of Vermont Center of Photography (VCP) in its new space at the corner of High and Green streets. The exhibit opens during Gallery Walk on Friday, Sept. 3 and runs through Sunday, Oct. 31. As described in a news release, Trachtman's work reveals a collaboration across time between her father and herself. Using her father's 90-year-old negatives from the Great Depression in Philadelphia and her own cell...
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