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More than a year and a half after Tropical Storm Irene tore through town, causing widespread flooding and complete washouts of some houses, the Selectboard is still only at the beginning of many cleanup projects.
The town was informed recently that it had received grant assistance via the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) buyout program, a federal initiative targeted for properties that were partially or completely destroyed by natural disasters.
Selectboard member Chris Druke presented the details of the buyouts to the rest of the board at its March 21 meeting.
Each property receiving grant aid will be appraised for its market value as of Aug. 27, 2011, the day before the storm arrived.
Employees from Brattleboro-based Soveren Solar met with the Putney Selectboard at their March 13 meeting to discuss two large scale solar installations eyed for launch within the next few weeks. The meeting was seen as an opportunity for the Selectboard to weigh in with any significant concerns they might...
Putney voters decided via voice vote at their annual town meeting on March 5 to allow the town's Selectboard to make a final decision on whether Putney and neighboring Westminster should share a 70-hour per week contract with the Windham County Sheriff's Department. Westminster voters had already decided at...
In one of the longest school board meetings in the town's history, voters decided 130-91 to send seventh- and eighth-graders to the Brattleboro Area Middle School starting in the 2013-14 school year. Since it was built in 1957, the Guilford Central School has educated students in kindergarten through eighth grade before sending them to Brattleboro Union High School for the rest of their secondary education. The decision to remove the town's middle school came after months of in-depth discussions and...
Following a brief discussion at their February 11 meeting, the Guilford Selectboard passed a motion to allow the Guilford Central School to piggyback on the town's contract with the Windham County Sheriff's Department, pending confirmation that it is the situation that will work out most easily. Guilford school principal John Gagnon explained his reasoning for increased police presence at the school in an initial letter sent to the Selectboard. A formal proposal will be submitted to the Selectboard following Guilford's...
The five-member Guilford School Board voted unanimously Jan. 21 to close out Guilford Central School's seventh- and eighth-grade classes starting next year, pending passage of the town budget next month. The vote paves the way for Guilford Central to be strictly an elementary school and for Guilford middle school students to join Vernon students roughly six miles away at Brattleboro Area Middle School, 109 Sunny Acres Dr. in Brattleboro. Voters will make the final decision at Annual Town Meeting on...
The Select Board has terminated highway department crewman Walter “Bo” Royce from his position following the town becoming aware of what the Select Board Chair “disappearing fuel” within the department. The board made the vote at a special meeting Jan. 10 after three hours of deliberation in executive session. The vote follows a similar action at the board's Nov. 5, 2012 meeting, where, following a similar closed-to-the-public deliberation, the board voted to terminate Royce's employment “with just cause.” Select Board...
Students for RENEW, a Brattleboro Union High School student group, has donated $1,000 it raised over several years to help improve the living conditions of a land mine victim in Äông Hà, the capital of Quang Tri province, Vietnam. The student group is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's Project RENEW, which is aimed at “restoring the environment and neutralizing the effects of war” by aiding in the removal of undetonated land mines. The formal donation is to be...
