The three Selectboard candidates vying for two open one-year seats greeted the public last week. On Feb. 11, WKVT and Brattleboro Community Television hosted one forum for the candidates, who followed that appearance with a second forum at the Brattleboro Citizens' Breakfast the next morning. Former board member Richard “Dick” DeGray, incumbent David Gartenstein, and newcomer Avery Schwenk answered questions about how, if elected to the board, they would approach economic development, homelessness, and the Police-Fire Project. DeGray and Gartenstein...
On Friday, Nov. 11, at 5 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Festival is back with another Literary Cocktail Hour, featuring 2022 National Book Award Finalist Tess Gunty with her debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch. Gunty will be in conversation with Vermont author Robin MacArthur. This is a compelling story of a group of residents in a low-cost housing complex set over one sweltering week in July: a woman waging a solo campaign against rodents, an online obituary writer, a young mother...
Just wanted to drop a brief note to thank supporters of the Townshend Community Food Shelf (TCFS). The TCFS provides nutritious foods and goods to some of our less-fortunate neighbors in the community. Faithfully, volunteers open the doors of the food shelf every Monday evening at the Congregational Church at the Townshend Common at 6 p.m. On Aug. 18, I completed a triathlon at Lake Dunmore and was hoping to help people sponsor me on behalf of the TCFS. I...
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