BRATTLEBORO — A great shout-out of thanks to Steve Barrett at the Brattleboro Department of Public Works, Cersosimo Lumber, and New England Central Railroad for removing the dreaded railroad siding on Route 142 which has caused the downfall (literally) of many, many cyclists over the years.
The tracks are gone and have been replaced with smooth asphalt.
Thank you all for making Brattleboro a safer place to cycle!
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The new 5-megawatt net-metered solar project on the town's former landfill at the Windham Solid Waste Management District's Old Ferry Road facility is slowly going online. The project is slightly behind schedule. According to the project's Certificate of Public Good, the solar array had to get hooked up to the grid by June 30. “It is not on schedule,” said the District's Executive Director Bob Spencer. “They tried to plug it in [to the grid] last week, but some of...
If you wonder about the state of our state, the recent pro-Trump rally at Pliny Park in Brattleboro should tell you everything you need to know. Conservatives, Republicans, and independents are not allowed a voice. They will be silenced. The rally was duly scheduled and permitted that Saturday. But the participants were overrun and out-shouted by the Black Lives Matter/Antifa crowd. They were passive-aggressive, shoving signs in our faces, in front of our cameras, butting shoulders, stepping on feet, knee-bumping...
Afrofuturist, oro-shamanic, Black gay poet and jazz bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude is coming to Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge Street, on Sunday, May 7, at 7 p.m. Toussaint St. Negritude presents what organizers are calling “a dynamic solo performance of liberational truth-telling, collaboratively pairing the call of his poetry with the intuitive responses of the bass clarinet, and additional instrumentation.” Along with the music and poetry, the former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine, further extends the experience visually with...
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