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Participate in the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 — Issue 191

To participate in the CEDS process, you can attend a regional meeting:

Session 1

Session 1 will focus on what people think is happening in the region. Meetings will be held:

• Tuesday, March 19, 8:30–11:30 a.m. - Bellows Falls Lower Theater.

• Wednesday, March 20, 8:30–11:30 a.m. - Wilmington Memorial Hall.

• Wednesday, March 20, 6–8:30 p.m. - Londonderry Town Offices

• Thursday, March 21, 6–8:30 p.m. - Brattleboro Selectboard Room, Municipal Hall.

Session 2

Session 2 will focus on verifying the community's feedback and goals:

• Tuesday, May 21, 8:30–11:30 am - Bellows Falls Lower Theater.

• Wednesday, May 22, 8:30–11:30 a.m. - Wilmington Memorial Hall.

• Wednesday, May 22, 6–8:30 p.m. - Londonderry Town Offices.

• Thursday, May 23, 6–8:30 p.m. - Brattleboro Selectboard Room, Municipal Hall.

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State will step in with food, heat aid if needed

By
Theo Wells-Spackman

-On Oct. 22, the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) said it was directed...

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

NEWFANE-Mankind is a narrative species, argues Newfane author Deborah Lee Luskin, and hunting has been...

State’s task force fields questions about school redistricting

By
Virginia Ray

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

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Bellows Falls firm pulls up stakes

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 — Issue 406

The pending closure of a Bellows Falls medical products company means lost jobs and tax revenue for the region. Vermed's reported departure also represents a black eye for the Windham County Economic Development Program: Just two years ago, the company received $200,000 from that fund as part of an incentive package to grow in Vermont. Officials are smarting from the blow, since the economic development program is fueled by a Vermont Yankee shutdown settlement and is supposed to help the...

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Voices

Local meals/room tax revenue was to reduce high tax burden, not fund marketing

By
Hugh W. Barber
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 — Issue 501

Here are some issues to think about prior to Brattleboro's Annual Representative Town Meeting coming up on Saturday, March 23. To make rational decisions about spending, one must carefully consider the municipality's ability to generate revenue. Brattleboro has a Grand List that has been relatively stagnant in recent years because we are limited geographically and because we have high taxes - two factors that chill expansion and development. But even more important, Brattleboro is a hub town with a population...

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Arts

Collegiate A Cappella Benefit Concert returns to Brattleboro

Wednesday, January 1, 2014 — Issue 235

Some of the best undergraduate singing groups in the nation will perform at the Latchis Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Brattleboro's 11th Annual Collegiate A Cappella Concert. A benefit for the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) sponsored by Brattleboro Savings & Loan, the concert features the Dartmouth Aires, Tufts Beelzebubs, Amherst College Zumbyes, University of Vermont Cat's Meow, Clark Bars, and one other group to be announced. The all-male Dartmouth Aires and Tufts Beelzebubs are...

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