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Links to Town Meeting warnings

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 — Issue 294

Following are links to warnings for Town Meeting Day in Windham County.

• Brattleboro - sample ballot (charter amendments)

• Brookline

• Dover

• Grafton

• Guilford

• Halifax

• Jamaica

• Londonderry

• Marlboro

• Newfane - sample ballot

• Putney

• Stratton

• Wilmington

News

A day without internet

By
Devan Monette

BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...

Foes of Putney housing project get fourth defeat

By
Virginia Ray

PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...

Petition brings new public conduct code to Town Meeting

By
Kevin O'Connor

BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...

Refugees and asylum seekers brace for new political winds

By
Joyce Marcel

BRATTLEBORO-Once you have lived through a civil war, or been beaten and tortured and starved,

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Dover prepares emergency grant program

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 — Issue 555

The Selectboard has approved a new emergency program aimed at supporting local businesses during the time of COVID-19. The Commercial Emergency Assistance Program provides funding for Dover-based businesses hit by closures or other implications of the global pandemic. Using money from taxes collected through the 1 percent local option sales tax, the program grants up to $1,000 a month to qualifying businesses. During its first videoconference public meeting on March 24, the Selectboard allocated $100,000, a “starting point” amount that...

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Voices

Nineteen miles from Brattleboro

By
Liam Clancy
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 — Issue 490

I was full of Christmas cheer as I took a trolley from Cambridge to Boston to wait for the train to Brattleboro. It was snowing heavily. I was excited about spending a Vermont Christmas with my brother Paddy, his wife Betty, and their little daughter Leish, but I was also excited at the thought of meeting my girlfriend Tina in New York after Christmas. To my surprise, I began to realize how very close we'd become in a short time.

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Arts

‘An essential part of who we are’

By
Annie Landenberger
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 — Issue 767

WILLIAMSVILLE-That a village of only a few hundred people has sustained its own theater group for nearly nine years is pretty impressive; that it keeps going and growing is a testament to its tenacity - and to the vision, stance, and openheartedness of its leadership. Since its founding in 2015, the Rock River Players (RRP), with co–artistic directors Bahman Mahdavi and Amy Donahue, has offered comedies and dramas, new works and old chestnuts, a musical, many cabarets, improvisation workshops, and...

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