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Putney briefs

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 — Issue 184

Sewer rates rise

PUTNEY — PUTNEY-The Selectboard has voted to raise sewer rates to meet the financial obligation for the 2013 budget.

Putney's flat rate per quarter will go up $8, from $86 to $94. The metered rate will go from .004 cents per gallon of water to .0042 cents per gallon.

The rates for users in Dummerston is now $172 per quarter, and will increase to $188. The metered rate will increase .0004 cents, to .0084.

The increase took effect Jan. 1.

Maes appointed

PUTNEY- The Selectboard has appointed Alice Maes as the second of its two representatives to the Local Rivers Subcommittee (Wantastiquet Subcommittee) of the Connecticut River Joint Commissions, joining Geno Palmeri.

The joint commissions are comprised of New Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley Resource Commission and Vermont's Connecticut River Watershed Advisory Commission. The two groups collectively monitor the federal relicensing process for the dams along the Connecticut River.

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News

Honoring their own

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 — Issue 200

The Brattleboro Fire Department's biennial awards ceremony on Sunday opened with honoring firefighters' families for putting family on hold during emergencies. It concluded with bestowing the Distinguished Service Award to Chief Michael Bucossi. After receiving the award, a surprised Bucossi first threatened to give the department “heck,” then said, “That award should have gone to this whole department.” The fire department honors members every other year for exemplary acts in the line of duty. Awardees are nominated by fellow firefighters.

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Voices

We’re #toast

By
Dan DeWalt
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 — Issue 558

The façade of American power, unity, and exceptionalism is crumbling. If you look inside, there is nothing but a cancerous stew of thwarted ideals, highjacked principles, corruption, ineptness, and base subservience. At the federal level, we are a failed nation. The same powers that have always controlled our politics - the wealthy oligarchy - have co-opted the democratic process to the extent that there is no longer any chance that the Congress can actually represent the American people. Vermont Rep.

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Arts

Village Dance hosts Quebecois soirée of music and dance

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 — Issue 481

A community contra dance will take place at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Calling the dance will be Fred Breunig. Music will be played by the McNeill's Quebecois Session Band. Fred Breunig will bring his unique repertoire of dances collected from the Quebecois tradition. The music will feature community musicians who play monthly at the Quebecois music jam held at McNeill's in Brattleboro. Prior dance experience isn't necessary, as...

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