DUMMERSTON — DUMMERSTON - The Selectboard set the 2017 municipal tax rate at the July 5 regular Board meeting.
The tax rate is 0.323 percent, giving the town a $850,035.87 budget, with a $1,090.82 buffer.
“When we set the tax rate, we usually set it so we have a little bit of a buffer,” Selectboard Chair Zeke Goodband said.
BRATTLEBORO-Under mostly sunny skies, the 51st annual "By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth" Independence Day parade made its way through downtown. The parade's theme was a salute to area volunteers, and many organizations were well-represented. The largest contingent in the parade were protesters of U.S. support for Israel in the war on Gaza, complete with an effigy of President Biden and an oversized cruise missile. Local politicians campaigning ahead of the Aug. 13 party primaries were also out in force.
Michelle Bos-Lun, a Democrat, is serving her second term in the Vermont House of Representatives and is running for a third term. She and Rep. Leslie Goldman (D-Rockingham) jointly represent Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. A high school teacher and youth program leader who moved to Vermont in 2003 for graduate school at SIT Graduate Institute, Bos-Lun holds a master's degree is in international education. In 2023 she completed a certificate from Vermont Law School in restorative justice practices. WESTMINSTER-I spent...
Audiences in the region can meet Casey Metcalfe in person when he emcees a special screening of Champions on Sunday, March 12 at 4 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St. Cost of the special screening fundraiser will be $25 for a raffle and a movie ticket, $20 for a raffle ticket only, or $7 for the screening only. Raffle prizes are a basketball signed by Metcalfe and the film's other cast members, as well as movie posters signed...
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