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The Brattleboro Police Department will soon get some new equipment, including three new vehicles and body-worn cameras. Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald appeared at the July 17 regular Selectboard meeting to discuss the details and seek the Board's approval on both items. The Selectboard approved a contract with Axon, a firm in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the body-worn cameras and technical support programs. The Board also approved of the purchase of three new police cars: two cruisers and one major incident vehicle.
The current dysfunction among politicians in Washington is perhaps the biggest and best reason for ordinary citizens to participate in local governance. I'm talking Town Meeting. It's coming right up. As I write, Selectboards around the county are finalizing municipal budgets for next year and drafting warnings for Town Meetings in March. Sadly, many are doing this work with little or no public input. This situation is hardly surprising, given how demoralizing it is to read the headlines about the...
Marlboro College welcomes back Molly Booth '14, a pioneer in young adult queer fiction, who will present a reading from her new work, Nothing Happened. The reading and discussion will take place Thursday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m., in the Appletree building on the Marlboro campus. Booth's first book and culminating project as a student at Marlboro, the young adult novel Saving Hamlet, was published by Disney Hyperion in 2016. Nothing Happened, her second book, was published in 2018 and...
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