Town
representatives in Brattleboro voted over the weekend in favor of a $14
million upgrade of the town’s police and two fire stations. But they
overwhelmingly opposed a tax to pay for it.
A
committee of the Vermont State Colleges has picked a building in
downtown Brattleboro as the site of a new campus for Community College
of Vermont and Vermont Technical College.
Brattleboro will decide this week whether to approve a proposed one
percent local option sales tax, which town officials say will generate funds to improve fire and
police stations.
The Actors Theatre Playhouse of
Brattleboro is staging a play that mixes history with conjecture and fiction. It’s Mark St. Germain’s "Camping with Henry and Tom,"
a comedy about Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding.
In Montpelier, the city’s energy committee next Tuesday will host
its first so-called "Energy Challenge Town Meeting." The city says the goal is to help residents get ready for winter by
giving them information about home energy audits and weatherization measures.
Brattleboro is getting ready for a unique recycling program. The town is
looking for 150 households to take part in a pilot curbside compost pickup
program.
Accidents
involving pedestrians have spiked statewide over the past several months. Brattleboro has seen the worst of it, and now local officials are
trying to identify the causes – and the solutions.