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Independence Day schedules and closings

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 — Issue 210

BRATTLEBORO — In observance of the July 4 holiday, all town offices will be closed on Thursday, with the exception of emergency services.

Parking is free at all metered spaces and in the pay-and-display lots on July 4. All other violations, including extended parking, will be enforced.

Brooks Memorial Library will be closed on July 4.

Trash, recycling, and composting will not be picked up on July 4. All pick-ups normally scheduled on Thursday will be conducted Friday, July 5.

The BeeLine bus will not run on July 4. Direct questions to The Current (formerly Connecticut River Transit) at 802-460-7433.

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Brattleboro's budget plan for next year? Keep it sustainable.

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-Public discussion about the fiscal year 2027 budget has started with the intention, Town Manager...

No resolution yet in food-assistance funding during federal shutdown

By
Robert F. Smith

With the federal government shutdown stretching into the longest in U.S. history, Nov. 1 was...

Warmline aims to end cyclical domestic abuse

By
Lauren Harkawik

-Umbrella, an organization based in the Northeast Kingdom, has expanded one of its services statewide.

Emergency overnight shelter will open in Brattleboro this winter

By
Randolph T. Holhut

BRATTLEBORO-Plans are moving forward to set up an emergency overnight shelter this winter to fill...

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‘An unhappy chemical accident’

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 — Issue 513

According to Kurt White, more people in the United States died from opioids last year than U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War during the entire duration of that conflict. From that perspective, the director of ambulatory services at the Brattleboro Retreat believes that opioids aren't getting enough attention. “If it was a war, it would. But it is kind of a war - but with hidden victims,” he said. This class of drugs, and their negative effects on the people...

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Voices

Oh, how they've panicked

By
Tim Grant
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 — Issue 558

MacLean Gander says “our highest political priority must be to come together as a nation.” Then he proceeds to attack President Trump. Mac is also offended when Trump calls the foreign virus a “foreign virus.” That is not racism, because the coronavirus is a foreign virus, a Wuhan virus, a Chinese virus. It is what it is. I wrote a letter to this newspaper years ago and said that liberals will panic when Trump is elected . Oh, how they've...

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Arts

Local artist opens award-winning sculpture show at The Putney School

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 — Issue 797

PUTNEY-Brattleboro artist Ruth Shafer's soft sculpture show, "The Weight," will open at The Putney School on Friday, Jan. 10, and runs through March 1. There will be an opening reception at the Micheal S. Currier Center Gallery from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 10. "The Weight" features five fabric sculpture installations which explore the feminine body's place in the home, in art history, and in the ways the past becomes the future. By conflating the female form with furniture...

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