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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 — Issue 177

BRATTLEBORO — • Send donations to Brattleboro Community Thanksgiving Dinner, in care of Katherine Barratt, Treasurer, P.O. Box 2384, West Brattleboro, VT 05303.

• People interested in cooking a turkey or donating produce or other foods should contact either Ray Branagan (802-579-4649 or ray.branagan@yahoo.com) or Mark Schultz (603-336-0008 or mas_1954@comcast.net).

• Dessert makers or musicians should contact Lindsay Cobb (802-376-3792 or lindsayc@sover.net).

• People interested in volunteering on Wednesday, Nov. 21, from 2 to 8 p.m. to prep vegetables and apples should call Ian Bigelow (802-579-7903, ianbigelowvt@gmail.com).

• People needed for Nov. 22 setup and cleanup should contact Katherine Barratt (802-257-4220 or kabar67@gmail.com).

• Drivers can contact Peter Wiles (802-254-4687 or pmw349@gmail.com).

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State will step in with food, heat aid if needed

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Theo Wells-Spackman

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Alvarez named Vermont Teacher of the Year

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-She started her own restaurant at the age of 20. Today, Linda Alvarez teaches young...

‘I don’t just want to read the landscape. I want to eat it.’

By
Joyce Marcel

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State’s task force fields questions about school redistricting

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Virginia Ray

TOWNSHEND-The Vermont School Redistricting Task Force broke the folks assembled at Leland & Gray Union...

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Selectboard looks to start budget process with cuts to services

By
Virginia Ray
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 — Issue 792

BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members have asked Town Manager John Potter and his staff to go back to the drawing board and return scenarios that describe 5% and 10% reductions to the proposed nearly $26.5 million budget for the next fiscal year. "I want to be clear with the public that a 22% increase in property taxes is extremely high, very hard to swallow, and, for many people, really, really concerning," said Board Chair Daniel Quipp of the current draft budget implication. The...

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May our fears serve as catalysts for change

By
Viv Woodland
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 — Issue 393

Eight years ago, I stood on the National Mall, wrapped in the arms of my biracial same-sex lover, to experience the Inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama, a man whose campaign slogan had been, simply, “Hope.” And, indeed, we were full of hope on that day, in that season. When the program ended, we made our way to the far end of the Reflecting Pool and up into the Lincoln Memorial to read the full text of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural...

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Arts

WOOL-FM hosts finale of indie-rock concert series on Sept. 15

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 — Issue 169

Community radio station WOOL-FM's Summer 2012 indie-rock concert series, presented in partnership with the What Doth Life music collective and featuring some of the region's top up-and-coming bands, wraps on Sept. 15 with a triple-headliner show. The bill includes the “best band in Vermont” according to the Boston Phoenix, the quirky outsider folk-poppers The Happy Jawbone Family Band; along with Upper Valley music legends The River City Rebels, who have been tearing up stages with their fun, melodic, high-energy Americana...

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