State regulators have approved a $22.7 million expansion project designed to address “current and future facility needs” at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. The project's centerpiece is a new, four-story, 20,180-square-foot building that will house bigger operating rooms, relocated medical offices, and an expanded cardiac rehabilitation area. The changes aren't expected to significantly boost patient numbers at BMH; in fact, the Green Mountain Care Board said the project will slightly reduce the hospital's operating margin for the next several years. But the...
BRATTLEBORO-New audio recordings created by multimedia artist Shanta Lee will enhance the visitor experience at selected sites on the Vermont African American Heritage Trail. These recordings resulted from a collaboration between the Brattleboro Words Trail and the Vermont African American Heritage Trail and will be shared on both sites. They can be accessed all together at bit.ly/772-VAAHT. The recordings invite visitors to explore: the back stories of the Turner Family at Journey's End in Grafton; the 54th Regiment sculpture of...
Our government won't seriously address gun control or climate control, or ever reliably serve the common good, so long as it's accepted that Congress is for sale. And it will continue to be for sale until campaigns are publicly funded and acceptance of any private money or benefit outlawed, with violation costing the legislator their job. Election would then be possible for a wider range of people. More time would be devoted to their legislative work. And, with a better...
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