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Brattleboro artists prepare for round one
Questions remain as date to submit initial proposal for public art to town nears
By Olga Peters
The Commons
BRATTLEBORO—The
deadline for artists to submit
a proposal to the town for the
National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) Our Town grant is
fast approaching.
But with the deadline for the
initial proposals only days away
— Sunday, July 26 at 9 p.m. —
many questions remained for
the almost 20 people who gathered on the stage in the Latchis’
main theater on July 9 to discuss
the grant.
The $56,000 matching funds
grant, awarded in 2012 to the
Brattleboro CoreArts Project
(brattcorearts.org), aims to increase
the town’s involvement with the
arts. The grant also aims to connect the arts with the town’s natural and cultural heritages and its
future visions of itself.
At the grant’s core rests
the concept of “creative
placemaking.”
In a 2010 white paper written by Ann Markusen and
Anne Gadwa for the Mayors’
Institute on City Design, the
writers described how arts can
be used to connect all aspects of
a community.
“In creative placemaking,
partners from public, private,
nonprofit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of a
neighborhood, town, city, or
region around arts and cultural
activities,” they wrote.
“Creative placemaking animates public and private
spaces, rejuvenates structures
and streetscapes, improves local business viability and public
safety, and brings diverse people
together to celebrate, inspire,
and be inspired,” Markusen and
Gadwa added.
A bumpy road
Brattleboro’s journey through
the creative placemaking process
has had its share of potholes.
Early on, the CoreArts team
of Town Planning Director
Roderick Francis, Town Arts
Committee member Kate
Anderson, and Zon Eastes of the
Vermont Arts Council identified
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DPW manages
almost all the
infrastructure in
N.H. man
arraigned for
Brattleboro
robbery
town from roads,
to sidewalks, to
By Olga Peters
wastewater lines,
The Commons
to the town’s new
The Public Works
Department tried to make
the Union Hill crosswalk
safer by widening the
sidewalk while pushing
out the curb to slow down
traffic.
multi-million
wastewater
treatment facility.
And a lot of it
needs fixing.
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Crews seize the summer
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By Olga Peters
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Vermont Independent Media
Alleged
bank
robber
turns
himself in
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RATTLEBORO—Summertime
is here, and the days are busy
for the crew of Department of
Public Works.
The department has approximately 14 projects lined up for the
summer. If funding and the weather cooperate, most of the work will wrap by the fall.
Any time of the year, DPW has a full
plate. Brattleboro’s aging infrastructure
needs constant repairs.
“A lot of the town needs fixing,” said
Water and Highway Superintendent
Hannah O’Connell. “We just can’t get
around to all of it.”
She described much of Brattleboro’s infrastructure — bridges, roads, water lines
— as “failing.”
Brattleboro isn’t alone in this situation,
she said.
Nationwide, the infrastructure of many
municipalities is reaching the end of its useful life at the same time, she said.
Public Works Director Steven Barrett
said that many of Vermont’s bridges and
roads were built after a series of floods that
hit the state in 1927, 1936, and 1938. The
next big building push came after World
War II.
In the postwar period, from the late
1940s to the early 1970s, the country experienced a public works building boom,
O’Connell explained. The nation got its
infrastructure, but not necessarily the ability or money to care for it, she continued.
Zip to 2015, and roads built to carry
lighter Model Ts now carry tractor trailers, O’Connell said.
“A lot of this infrastructure has the same
clock,” Barrett said.
Many of the chemicals used in snow removal are also more corrosive to concrete,
added Barrett. Think of them as basically
salt water.
This has led to an increase of corrosion in the Town’s wastewater system and
bridges, he said.
DPW manages almost all the infrastructure in town from roads, to sidewalks, to
wastewater lines, to the town’s new multimillion wastewater treatment facility.
Two budgets fund the department, said
Barrett. The first budget of just over $1.5
million from tax revenues funds solid infrastructure like roads, sidewalks, and the
activities that care for them, like paving
and snowplowing.
The second budget pays for the more
liquid side of DPW: water and the management of it. This includes the wastewater
treatment facility and municipal water system. User fees fund this $5 million budget.
Some of the town’s larger buildings or
businesses use more than 100,000 gallons
of water a day, said Barrett.
Main Street sidewalks
Barrett pulls two brown expandable file
folders from a shelf to check figures for
the summer’s Main Street sidewalk project. The folders together are more than
seven inches thick with documents and
schematics.
Replacing the sidewalks on the east side
of Main Street — the river side — is a substantial undertaking for the summer, said
Barrett and O’Connell.
The 1,960-feet of sidewalk under construction will stretch from the Kyle Gilbert
Memorial Bridge near the Whetstone
Brook, north to Walnut Street next to the
Subway restaurant.
Workers won’t pull up all of the sidewalk, Barrett said. Making repairs or replacing a whole section will depend on the
condition of the concrete.
BRATTLEBORO—The
man suspected of robbing the
People’s United Bank on Main
Street last month turned himself in to Brattleboro Police on
Sunday night.
Jared R. Fahmy, 22, of
Bedford, N.H., was arraigned
Monday in Windham Superior
Court, Criminal Division, on a
felony charge of larceny from a
person. Judge Karen Carroll ordered Fahmy held on $25,000
bail.
Brattleboro Det. Lt. Mike
Carrier wrote in an email on
Monday that it’s rare for suspects
in felony
cases to turn
themselves
over to the
authorities.
“Cases
such as
these normally carry a
lengthier sentence if found Jared R.
guilty and, Fahmy.
therefore,
they do not want to be arrested
as the possibilities for spending
a significant amount of time in
prison is greater,“ he wrote.
Suspects involved in misdemeanor crimes with fewer
consequences, however, turn
themselves in more often, Carrier
said.
Carrier could not answer “at
this time” whether Fahmy had
given a reason for surrendering
to BPD, or what happened to the
money he stole.
Fahmy allegedly robbed the
bank on June 29, at 12:45 p.m.
According to Carrier, the suspect allegedly entered People’s
United Bank and handed the
clerk a note demanding money.
He received an undetermined
amount of money from the clerk
and left the bank on foot.
Carrier said a warrant was
issued for Fahmy’s arrest after
probable cause was developed
alleging Fahmy was responsible
for the robbery.
If Fahmy is found guilty, the
charge carries a penalty of a
prison sentence of no more than
10 years, a maximum fine $500,
or both.
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n DPW projects
FROM SECTION FRONT
The project is estimated at
$600,000. Most of the funding
will come through grants, said
Barrett and O’Connell.
The town awarded the contract bid to Zaluzny Excavating
Corporation, of Vernon, they
said. The contract includes a
60-day “substantial completion” clause.
Work is anticipated to start
Aug. 3, and finish by Columbus
Day weekend, Barrett added.
Workers will focus on maintaining access to businesses
and safe walking areas, added
O’Connell.
Updating the sidewalks on
the east side of Main Street was
delayed long enough that many
people assumed the work had
been completed.
According to Barrett and
O’Connell, the town first bonded
for the project in 2010.
“It’s just been a series of follies,” Barrett said of the project’s
delays and false starts.
Scheduling outside work in
the downtown is a brain teaser,
said O’Connell.
“It’s a pickle,” she continued.
The weather must cooperate because concrete can’t be poured
in cold weather. It’s better to
avoid Strolling of the Heifers and
Independence Day weekends.
The department doesn’t want to
inhibit the retailers’ sales.
O’Connell said the project will
try to meet the needs of people
with mobility issues as much as
possible.
Once work starts, the department will send weekly updates
to the town and the media,
O’Connell added.
Union Hill and
Cedar Street
The department completed
improvements to the intersection
of Union Hill, Western Avenue,
and Cedar Street last month.
The project itself was 10 years
in the making.
Installing new signs is the only
part of the project that remains.
DPW is still tabulating
the project’s final costs, said
O’Connell. She estimates the total will be under $20,000.
“Unfortunately with that
project we were limited in the
changes we could make,” said
O’Connell.
The intersection does not
form right angles, with Union
Hill and Cedar Streets off center
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to one another. Union Hill itself
is very steep. Nearby are crosswalks, a park, and an elementary school. Western Avenue
is a primary west-east road to
downtown.
According to traffic count data
from last year, 800 vehicles pass
through the intersection during
a peak driving hour of 4:15 p.m.,
Barrett said at a public meeting.
Half those cars traveled from
downtown, Barrett said. People
traveling toward downtown accounted for about 35 percent of
the traffic. Drivers coming from
Cedar Street accounted for 8
percent and traffic from Union
Hill totaled seven percent.
The intersection has had its
fair share of accidents including
a deadly hit and run last year.
To mediate some of the intersection’s tricky aspects, the department created bulb outs and
green space to narrow the opening of Union Hill.
It also moved the crosswalk at
the mouth of Union Hill farther
into Western Avenue so drivers
can see pedestrians more easily
and drivers stopping on Union
Hill no longer have to pull into
the crosswalk to see traffic traveling east on Western Avenue.
The department also shifted
Western Avenue away from the
busy hill, east, towards Green
Street. This change allows more
separation between traffic and
pedestrians.
Drivers would “gun it” to get
up the 12 percent grade of Union
Hill, said O’Connell. “And bang,
the crosswalk is right there.”
A crossing guard who had witnessed too many near misses,
suggested the department move
the Western Avenue crosswalk
away from the intersection,
O’Connell said.
Annoyed drivers have called
the department with complaints,
she said. Most of the complaints
seem to be from drivers who
can’t dart straight from Union
Hill to Cedar Street any longer.
DPW explored options before settling on a final design,
said O’Connell. The intersection, unfortunately, is not a true
four-way. Drivers can’t see each
other clearly.
Installing traffic lights or fourway stop signs, and making
Union Hill a one-way street were
a few of the options explored.
Data collected on the intersection, however, showed that
these changes would snarl traffic
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Brattleboro Public Works Director Water and Highway Superintendent
Steven Barrett.
Hannah O’Connell.
even more, especially during the Elliot Street bridge
morning and afternoon school
Damage to the deck of the
runs, O’Connell said.
bridge connecting Elliot Street
has reduced the 69-year-old
Green Street
structure to one lane. Drivers
retaining wall
scoot around an 8-foot-by-10Governor Peter Shumlin an- foot metal plate covering a large
nounced June 23 that the town hole.
had received a $300,000 federal
“We’ve gotten one heck
grant to repair the Green Street of a lifespan out of it,” said
retaining wall.
O’Connell.
The town closed the end of
Most bridges have an expected
Green Street, called Green Street lifespan of 50 years, she added.
Extension, to traffic last fall. The
DPW first noticed a fist-sized
200-foot-long retaining wall hole in the bridge’s deck last
showed signs of deterioration. winter.
A wide crack had formed in the
In an attempt to assess the
road as the wall tilted outwards damage and make repairs, staff
toward Harmony Parking Lot. dug into the concrete, O’Connell
“The tallest middle section explained. They intended to dig
of the stone wall is leaning out until they found stable concrete;
by several feet and continues to they would then patch the hole.
move,” wrote Barrett in a memo.
Staff stopped digging when
“It is, in our opinion, close to the hole reached almost 4-feet
failure.”
by 4-feet, she said.
Repairing the wall is estimated
“We weren’t sure when we’d
at $585,000.
get to that good, solid concrete,”
Barrett said that the bids are O’Connell said.
due back to the town by Aug. 5.
State bridge inspectors have
The town will award the contract reviewed the bridge, Barrett said.
on Aug. 18.
So far things are okay.
“We don’t know when that
“That bridge could get to the
[wall] was built,” said Barrett, point where we shut it down,”
but town maps dating to the Barrett added.
1850s show the wall already in
O’Connell said the bridge
place, he added.
probably won’t receive repairs
While Barrett can say that this summer. Preliminary design
Arch Street is the oldest street in work is planned.
town, he doesn’t know the oldBarrett and O’Connell estiest retaining wall. Arch Street mate repairing the bridge would
snakes past 51 Main St., then cost over $1 million.
runs parallel to Main Street next
to the railroad tracks and the Other projects
Connecticut River.
The department has a num“All the villages in Vermont ber of other projects this sumare build on a hillside,” he said. mer. Roads might get the most
Barrett surmises that many of attention from the public bethe engineers and stone masons cause those are the most visible
who came to Vermont to work projects, but much of the infraon the railroad moonlighted on structure the DPW cares for runs
retaining walls.
under the streets and sidewalks
When possible, Barrett prefers of town.
to install dry stone walls, a tech• Bonnyvale Road retainnique used for the Green Street ing wall: While estimates are
retaining wall.
still forthcoming, repairing the
In the Green Street wall’s 100-foot-long wall is expected
case, however, the stone is soft to cost between $20,000 and
and not very good, he said. The $30,000.
town would have to purchase
• Capital paving: The DPW
new stones — a solution that’s has budgeted $300,000 for capinot cost effective.
tal paving this summer. “Capital
In most cases, however, a dry paving” is a catchall term for onstone wall will last centuries, going repairs and maintenance
Barrett said.
to the town’s roads and sidewalks. The department received
a $75,000 grant from the state,
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said O’Connell. This will allow
the DPW to complete $375,000
worth of paving.
• Black Mountain water tank:
Final engineering for the 1-million-gallon tank will happen this
summer. The department aims
to complete the entire project
this summer but it might need
more time, said O’Connell. The
estimated $1 million project will
help, in part, with fire protection for the buildings, like World
Learning, on Black Mountain
Road.
• Replacing the Black
Mountain pump station: Not to
be confused with the 1-milliongallon water tank, the DPW
is replacing the pump station
with a gravity-fed sewer line.
The sewer line will run under
Interstate 91 and connect with
a main line running near Putney
Road. Barrett said that the initial
drilling under Interstate 91 has
happened.
Engineers will check the line’s
slope next. A 16-inch sleeve will
eventually contain an 8-inch
sewer pipe. The sleeve acts as
a placeholder in case the sewer
pipe needs repair, replacement,
or expansion.
Barrett has told the
Selectboard at past meetings
that the sewer line will save the
town money over the long run.
This project is the final phase of
the Wastewater Treatment Plant
project and will cost $960,700.
• Chestnut Hill Reservoir:
DPW staff plans to complete
routine maintenance on the reservoir and dam. According to
O’Connell, the reservoir is not in
use. Still, the department maintains the structure for safety and
to remain compliant with state
permits.
• Permanent repairs to a washout near South Main Street: The
DPW will complete permanent
repairs to a piece of eroded land
near Morningside Cemetery,
said Barrett, where some land
washed out. The area eroded
two years ago, he said.
While the department stabilized the land, more engineering
work is needed. Staff will also
oversee some site work to the
sewer and water systems at the
future Red Clover Commons off
Old Fairground Road.
• O’Connell is working on installing a “drainage swale” between Wilson Woods and the
Red Clover Commons site. A
swale helps prevent erosion, she
said. It is basically a stone-lined
ditch that catches water run off.
• Green Mountain Power will
continue replacing the street
lamps — not the traffic signals
— with more energy-efficient
lighting, Barrett said.
• Staff need to replace a water
line on Willow Street. They will
also clean and line a water main
on Frost Place, said Barrett.
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THE COMMONS
NEWS
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INDEX to ADVERTISERS this issue
TOM KOSIBA
New York City children began their Fresh Air summers on July 8 by boarding the bus headed for Southeastern
Vermont. The children will be visiting local host families for one or two weeks.
Fresh Air kids arrive
in southern Vermont
BRATTLEBORO—Nineteen smiling New York City children
boarded buses on July 8, headed for Southeastern Vermont, to reunite with their host families at the Fresh Air Fund bus drop-off
point at Brattleboro Union High School.
This summer, close to 4,000 children will enjoy a summer outside of the city with volunteer host families in suburban, rural, and
small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine
and Canada through The Fresh Air Fund’s Volunteer Host Family
Program.
The Walkowiak family of Whitingham, at the bus arrival last week,
has hosted Lynai Castillo-Watson from the Bronx for the past 10
summers. She was six years old when she first came to Vermont.
Now closing in on 18 years old, Lynai has become a lifelong
friend to the Walkowiak girls.
“I’m excited to go swimming and to watch the stars at night. I
can’t see them at night in the city!” said 10-year-old Tyrone about
his Fresh Air experiences.
According to the Fresh Air Fund, many volunteer families find
their hosting experience so rewarding that more than 65 percent
of all children are invited to stay with the same host families year
after year.
The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency that has
provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York
TOM KOSIBA
City children from low-income communities since 1877. For more infor- Members of the Walkowiak family of Whitingham
mation about hosting a Fresh Air child, call Tom Kosiba at 802-282- greet Lynai Castillo-Watson from the Bronx, who
9933 or visit www.freshair.org.
has stayed with the family for the past 10 summers.
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The
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Episcopal
Church
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These positions require residential building analysis skills regarding energy
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91 Buck Drive, Westminster, VT 05158
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413 Canal Street
254-7777
How May We Help You Today?
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YOUR BUSINESS
Elizabeth:
[email protected];
802-257-7475
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802-254-2232
Hello! My name is Kenan. I’m
just a sweet little kitten on the
prowl for a home to grow old in.
I’m everything a kitten should
be- cuddly, playful and spunky!
I’m still very impressionable, so I
would do fine in any household.
Even one with dogs, other cats
or gentle kids. I was born to a
feral kitty so I can startle easy, but just give me a little
time to settle in and it’ll be like I was always there. Stop
by soon before you miss your chance to take me home!
Hey, how’s it going?
My name is Gordo.
I’m a sweet boy that
came all the way
from Puerto Rico to
find my new family.
I’m great with other
dogs, and I could
live with cats or
calm children. I’m a true heinz 57 mix,
can you guess what breeds I am? Whatever
I am, I am a love! Come meet me soon!
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Alan Scott Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
American Legion Post 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Antique & Vintage Oriental Rugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D2
Basketville, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
BCTV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C3
Bellows Falls Opera House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Bellville Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C1
Black Bear Trading Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Brattleboro Food Co-op. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Brattleboro Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Brattleboro Savings & Loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A4
Brattleboro Time Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Brattleboro Time Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Brattleboro Tire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C3
CCV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A2
Cersosimo Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Charles D. Hickey, PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
Chelsea Royal Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Chimney Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Creatin Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Creative Landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Curtis BBQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A4
DMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
Dover Free Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Dutton Farm Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Erlanger_Digital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D2
Falls Area Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Fearless Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A2
Grace Cottage Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D2
Grandma Miller's Pies and Pastries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Guilford Historical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Hazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Hickory Ridge Animal Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Hotel Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
Immanuel Episocpal Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Integrated Solar Applications Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B4
Jewett Plumbing & Heating, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
Ker-Westerlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D3
Latchis Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Matt Skove/Audio Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
McIlroy & King Communications Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A4
Meeting House Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Members 1st Credit Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
New England Youth Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Next Stage Arts Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Northfield Drive In Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
Oak Meadow School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
One Stop Country Pet Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Pluhar Consulting-Patient Sympahetic Counseling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Popolo Restaurant Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B1
Popolo Restaurant Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A2
Putney Diner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Putney General Store & Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Putney General Store & Pharmacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
R. John & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
River Valley Credit Union. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D2
Rock River Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Rock Voices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
Second Chance Shoppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
SEVCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A2
Shippee Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D1
Steves Septic Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
Stone Church Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A3
Stone Soldier Pottery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
The Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C4
The Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
The Outlet Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A4
The Shoe Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Town of Dummerston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
Trust Company of Vermont. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D2
Valley Cares, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A2
Washburn Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C2
West Hill Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Windham Hill Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B3
WKVT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B2
Yellow Barn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A1
Hey there everyone! My
name is Bradley. I’m a real
gentle and loving guy. My
owners health started to decline and the family decided
I would be happier in a new
home. I’m declawed on my
front paws so I would be
best as an indoor only pet
in my new home. I love older children and adults of
all ages and would enjoy a quiet home. If I sound
like the guy for you stop by and meet me today!
HI HI HI! My name is Neurona and I am just
the cutest little puppy. I don’t think anyone
could miss my beautiful blue eyes. I just got
here from Puerto Rico and I cannot wait
to find my forever home. I need a family
that will give me lots of attention and time
to play but also teach me manners and all
the things little puppies like me need to
learn before growing up. I could live with
kitty and doggie friends as long as we are properly introduced
and love people of all shapes and sizes! I would really like to
find my new home so I can continue my adventure!
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TOWN & VILL AGE
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■ NEA grant
three phases for the grant.
Phases one and two included
holding public charrettes with
experts in the field, and assembling a cultural assets map.
Earlier this summer, however, the Selectboard noted that
the grant process had hit speed
bumps.
Due to disagreements that
seemed to lack the possibility of
resolution, Francis and Eastes
had askedAnderson to leave
the team. Meanwhile, with only
weeks before the end of a NEA
deadline extension, the town had
yet to produce the vetting process for phase three: the public
art work.
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During June, the Town
Arts Committee and Town
Manager’s office, with the help of
community members, put their
shoulders to the wheel. Their
efforts produced a request for
proposals and the process for
soliciting and screening public
art projects.
As a result, the NEA has
granted another extension. The
public art project must be completed by July 31, 2016.
notice.
Gelter, who orchestrated the
meeting independently from the
town’s activities, said she hoped
to give community members a
chance to learn more about the
RFP. She also hoped the forum
would provide an opportunity for
developing partnerships among
the meeting’s participants.
Participants included representatives from local nonprofits,
artists, Eastes, and Anderson.
Kate O’Connor participated
Jump-starting
in her role as executive director
the process
of the Brattleboro Area Chamber
Jessica Callahan Gelter of of Commerce. She also serves as
Brattleboro organized the July Selectboard vice-chair.
9 community meeting on short
Gelter said she wanted as
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Second homer?
Scaling up?
Sizing down?
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much of the grant’s money for
the phase three public art project to remain local.
“This is a passion project for
me here, but it’s also what I do
professionally,” said Gelter, the
executive director of Arts Alive!
in Keene, N.H.
The town has stipulated that
the public arts project should
take the form of either a visual
or performance project.
A screening committee will vet
the one-to-two-page project proposals submitted by July 26, said
Gelter. The committee’s main
goal will be to remove any obvious “outliers” from the submission process — like projects with
a budget greater than $50,000.
“It’s not a huge hoop to jump
through between now and then,”
she said.
Steps in the
process
Artists whose proposals meet
the criteria of the first stage will
then produce a more detailed application that will come before a
second — and different — selection committee.
The Selectboard has yet to assemble that committee. Due to a
lack of committee applications,
the board has extended the deadline to July 16.
Anyone interested in serving can learn more by visiting
brattleboro.org . To obtain an 4 to submit their final project
application, click on “Boards
and Committee Application”
on the home page under the
“News” section, or call the
Town Manager’s office at
802-251-8151.
According to a press release
from the town, applicants must
live in Brattleboro or bring prior
experience in judging artistic
ability and experience.
The board hopes to approve
screening committee members
at its July 21 meeting.
According to the RFP, the
project should inspire the community to do more with the arts,
increase the role arts play in
town, and represent the whole
community.
The project must respond to
the town’s natural landscape,
built environment, cultural and
community assets, and opportunities for public expression. The
public art should provide community members with a sense of
ownership.
Artists must also possess the
ability to engage and include the
community.
According to the town’s timeline in the RFP, the screening
committee will nominate finalists by July 31. The Selectboard
will consider the list and select
finalists on Aug. 4.
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In August, the Selectboard will
appoint members to the selection
committee, which will submit a
list of recommended projects to
the Selectboard. The board will
decide which project to award
the grant to on Sept. 15.
A full RFP can be found at the
home page of the town’s website.
Artists can divide the grant
among any number of projects
and artists.
“There’s a lot of opportunity
to share the money and there’s
a lot of opportunity to collaborate,” Gelter said.
Questions abound
An atmosphere of confusion and frustration hung in
the Latchis’ main theater at the
session, where audience members spouted questions, many
of which did not have answers
— yet.
Anderson recorded the questions to pass over to Town
Manager Peter Elwell. The
town manager’s office has since
released the answers through
an addendum to the RFP, also
linked to the home page of
brattleboro.org.
Gelter asked participants,
“How could public art change
Brattleboro?”
Through a theater exercise
called “milling and seeding,”
participants discussed the question in small groups.
Quickly, the room became
charged with inspiration, ideas,
and visions for Brattleboro.
Participants who spoke said
they hoped to see a project that
continued to give back to the
town beyond the initial project,
like a performance space or new
public space.
After the meeting, Gelter said
that “there were a lot of great
connections” made among the
artists and participants representing the social-services sector.
“It was positive,” said Gelter,
heartened by the number of offers people at the meeting made
to collaborate with one another
and provide resources like time,
meeting space, and publicity.
The audience members will
hold a second meeting soon
to develop a list of recommended criteria for the screening committee.
To learn more or become involved,
visit the Facebook group Brattleboro
Public Art Forum (facebook.com/
groups/587213334753752).
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Main Street Arts
names Stern as
artistic director
By Louise Luring
Special to The Commons
SAXTONS RIVER—David
Stern of Westminster has been
appointed artistic director of
Main Street Arts community
arts center.
Stern directed MSA’s recent
productions of Les Misérables
and The Pirates of Penzance .
He is founding director of the
New Ensemble Theater in
Concord, Mass., and has run
theater programs at Springfield
High School, the Middlesex
School, The Meeting School,
and Kimball Union Academy.
He has a master of fine arts in
theatrical design from Rutgers
University and has directed
shows and created innovative
sets for theater companies across
the Northeast, including the
Merrimack Repertory Theatre,
the New Jersey Shakespeare
Festival, the North Country
Center for the Arts, the Weston
Playhouse, and the New England
Youth Theatre.
Stern, the principal of a design
firm, Artscapes, is particularly
enthusiastic about expanding
MSA’s theater and performance
programs.
“Theater is a huge part of my
life,” he said, calling the opportunity “a dream come true.”
According to his business website (artscapesdesign.com), Stern
has experience as an interior designer, exhibit designer, custom
painter, sculptor, draftsman, watercolorist, and jeweler.
“I’ve always wanted to build
community through the arts,”
he said. “That’s what MSA is all
about, whether it’s our shows,
our education programs, or our
work with area artists. It’s all
about integration of the arts into
the fabric of the region.
“Plus I can bike to work any
time. That’s pretty awesome.”
Stern’s breadth of experience
was a major factor in his selection, according to Kathleen
Bryar, co-chair of the MSA
Board of Directors.
“David is a true arts omnivore,
said Bryar. “His creative skills
range from performance to arts
education to sculpture, painting
and exterior and interior design.
That’s critical for us because, in
a relatively rural setting, MSA
needs to be able to serve as the
arts center for an extremely diverse audience.
“People come here to paint,
dance, sing, act, write, learn an
instrument, or discover something of our region’s cultural
heritage and to both show off and
share their talents,” she added.
“Getting a handle on all that is
a big task and requires someone
with a wide range of interests and
expertise.”
MSA Managing Director
Margo Ghia has been impressed
with what she has seen of Stern’s
work and is encouraged by his
commitment to working with
young people.
“Friends and patrons of Main
Street Arts have seen the quality of David’s work over the
last couple of years,” Ghia said.
“The sets and the acting in Les
Misérables were simply amazing.”
“Arts education is a big part of
who we are,” she said. “David is
a natural teacher and manager
of teachers. He’s an obvious
choice to build on the legacy of
our founders Mary Hepburn and
Karen Lanterman, as well as the
crucial contributions of the late
Ryan Ostebo.”
Now in its 27th year, Main Street
Arts is a nonprofit community
arts center dedicated to serving
the creative needs of the greater
community by encouraging creative exploration and expression
through a wide range of experiences.
Information: MainStreetArts.org.
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WENDY M. LEVY/THE COMMONS
Matthew Tell chatters a mug at his studio.
This weekend: a celebration of summer, art, and barbecue
By Wendy M. Levy
The Commons
N
EWFANE—On
the weekend of
July 18 and 19,
the quiet, flowerlined roads along
the Rock River become an open
studio.
Since 1993, artists have
opened their homes and workplaces on the third weekend in
July for the Rock River Artists
Tour. Guests can interact with
them, purchase their creations,
and sometimes see art in action
through their demonstrations.
This year, 14 artists are included in the tour, which begins at the Old Schoolhouse
in South Newfane village.
Attendees can view the group
show and pick up a map to
guide them through the paved
and dirt roads of Marlboro,
Newfane, South Newfane, and
Williamsville.
A variety of media are represented, including drawings,
printmaking, woodworking,
pottery, fabric, wrought-iron
work, mosaics, mixed-media
pieces, and photography.
Following are profiles of several of the artists participating
in the tour.
Recording a
disappearing
landscape
The first stop on the tour is
at Georgie’s home and studio
on Augur Hole Road.
The mononymous pleinair oil painter said she mostly
paints barns, bridges, and
sugarhouses because they are
slowly disappearing. “A barn
might burn down, a hurricane
destroys them,” she said, adding, “People aren’t building
new.”
“I’m trying to record them
while they’re there, in paint,”
she said.
One of the newer members
of the tour, Georgie said she
was invited five years ago, after
a jury process that she describes
as “quite stiff.”
“The very best thing,”
Georgie said, of participating
in the tour, “is I have made so
many very good friends. That
is priceless.”
She said she has been painting for “about 20 years,” and
she studied painting in a variety of places, including the
Delaware Art Museum and the
Barnes Foundation, a museum
in Philadelphia.
“For some reason I can’t explain, so many people along this
river are artists and musicians,”
Georgie said.
When she began building
her house in South Newfane
25 years ago, “I didn’t realize
other artistic types were here,”
she said, noting she learned of
their existence “by going on
the tour.”
“For years and years I went
on the tour,” she said, “and
people would say to me, ’Why
aren’t you doing the tour?’”
Now that she is part of it,
Georgie said she transforms
her home into a gallery for the
event: “Every wall, plus my
Mugs of various sizes sit waiting for glazing in
Matthew Tell’s studio.
studio” has paintings on it.
Throughout the weekend,
she will demonstrate her artistic process. She will show
a finished painting, she said,
alongside a work in progress.
“I show the difference between what needs to be done
between the first rendering and
the finished version,” Georgie
explained.
“I paint on site,” Georgie
said, explaining, “usually I’ll
stand in somebody’s front
yard or field for a few weeks.
Vermont is so beautiful, I want
to paint everything.”
To help narrow down her
choices, Georgie has developed
a rule: “I see something, and I
wait a year. If I’m still thinking
about it, I go back and paint it.”
She characterized the state
as “the perfect outdoor art
studio.”
Other artists
this weekend
NEWFANE—Other
Rock River artists participating in the tour:
• Rob Cartelli (functional ceramics)
• Kim Hartman Colligan
(printmaking)
• Rich Gillis (wrought
iron work)
• Caryn King (paintings)
• Leonard Ragouzeos
(painting and drawing)
• Lauri Richardson
(mosaics)
• Roger Sandes (painting and prints)
• Deidre Scherer (thread
on fabric)
• Christine Triebert
(photography)
• Mary Welsh (collage)
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Leaving the big top and rubber noses behind
In ‘Leaps of Faith,’ Almanac Dance Circus Theatre blends
the physicality of circus arts with sophisticated storytelling
By Richard Henke
The Commons
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RATTLEBORO—
“Physical theater is
more than what most
people think when
they hear the term,”
says Ben Grinberg, co-founder of
Almanac Dance Circus Theatre.
“It is not just mime or red-nose
clowning.”
The genre also pursues storytelling through primarily physical means which rely on motions
of the performers rather than (or
combined with) text to convey
the story.
“As we do Almanac, performers talk through hand gesJENNA SPITZ
Members of the Almanac Dance Circus Theatre will tures, body language, thought
be coming to SoBo Studio in Brattleboro on July 25 track [when a character speaks
aloud inner thoughts], and many
and 26.
BACKGROUND
more physical features,” adds
Grinberg.
On July 25 and 26, the
Philadelphia based contemporary acrobatics company will
perform its latest work, Leaps of
Faith and Other Mistakes, a piece
of dance theater that includes
“feats of balance, strength, and
flexibility,” according to its publicity materials.
But this show has more than
that.
Created and performed by
an ensemble of award-winning
emerging artists — Grinberg,
Nicole Burgio, Nick Gillette and
Adam Kerbel, with words by
Josh McIlvain and music written and performed by Patrick
Lamborn — Leaps of Faith combines “equal parts dance, circus,
story theater, and music.”
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Developed in part through
a residency in Montreal with
Cirque du Soleil’s Jerome Le
Baut and Cirque Eloize’s Robert
Bourgeoisie, this 75-minute evening of theater, in the words of
the performers, is “an absurd and
contemplative tapestry of sublime human idiocy, isolationist
seafarer cults, and the kinds of
people that devote their lives to
becoming acrobats.”
The narrative concerns four
hobbyists who, finding one
another alone “in a world of
weirdos, push themselves to be
exceptional in every moment.”
“As they purify themselves
and adopt an all-white uniform, their trusty sofa becomes
a portal for exploration and they
set out on the high-seas and
leave the world of fast-food and
SHADOW
normal people behind,” the actors describe.
Circus, dance, and
theater meet
Leaps of Faith is the second
major work of theater created by
Almanac Dance Circus Theatre.
“Almanac straddles ensembledriven performances that include
circus, dance, and theater,” says
Grinberg. Fusing acrobatics,
storytelling, and daring physicality, the company “produces
both ensemble-prompted and
commissioned works, develops
educational partnerships for students of all ages, and leads an
open-ensemble circus gymnasium for professional performers,” according to the company’s
materials.
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Performing arts
Performing arts
"Top Girls": It's the
dawn of Thatcher's England and
Marlene has just crawled above
the glass ceiling--promoted to
managing director of a London
employment agency. Her party--an
extraordinary dinner attended by
women of legend or history asserting their stories of success and sacrifice. Through role doubling, these
women are seen as co-workers, clients, and relatives. We enter both
the world of affluence Marlene ascends into and the equally unforgiving one of poverty she escaped from.
Katrina Spenceman (Marlene) leads
the cast: Dakota Benedetto, Julia
Tadlock, Keely Eastley, Bryn Austin,
Kenzie Klem, Bridget McBride,
Maeve Campman, Louise Krieger,
and Cris Parker Jennings under the
direction of Apron Theater founder
Hallie Flower. (Repeats 7/23-7/25)
▶ 7:30 p.m.: Thur.-Sat.; 2 p.m.:
Sun.
▶ Through Sunday, July 19.
▶ $15.
▶ The Grammar School, 69
Hickory Ridge Rd. S. Information:
802-387-0071; nextstagearts.org.
Comedy Night:
Dave Yubruh, Andrew Mayer and
more.
▶ 8 p.m.
▶ $7; $10 at door.
▶ The Arts Block, 289 Main
St. Information: 413-774-0150;
theartsblock.com.
PUTNEY "Top Girls": (See 7/16)
▶ The Grammar School.
Music
BELLOWS FALLS Bellows Falls
PUTNEY
Kevin Parry:
Open Mic: Participating musicians
receive 50% off of their meal. Every
Thursday.
▶ 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Marina Restaurant, 28 Spring
Tree Rd. Sign up: 802-257-7563;
kevinparrymusic.com.
BRATTLEBORO "The Paisley
Fields": Country Music: James
Wilson is a songwriter and lead
singer. Visit www.thepaisleyfields.
com.
▶ 7:30 p.m.
▶ Donations welcome.
▶ The Root Social Justice Center,
28 Williams St., 1st fl. Information:
802-254-3400; therootsjc.org.
CHESTER The Bondville Boys:
Kickoff for Chester's Summer
Concert Series. Since 1990, musicians Jake Geppert, Tom Morris
and Laura Molinelli, have played
hard-edged bluegrass throughout
western New England. Bring blankets and lawn chairs.
▶ 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. on the lawn
(rain location: MacLaomainn's
Scottish Pub, 52 S. Main).
▶ Free.
▶ Academy Building, 330 Main St.
Lynne Reed: 802-875-3400.
BRATTLEBORO
Instruction
GREENFIELD
Music
BRATTLEBORO
Karaoke and
Buffet:
▶ 5 p.m. buffet; 7 p.m. karaoke.
▶ $5 buffet; karaoke is free.
▶ Veterans of Foreign Wars, 40
Black Mountain Rd. Information:
802-257-0438.
PUTNEY Hersant, Elgar, Knussen,
Beethoven, and Wuorinen:
▶ 8 p.m.
▶ $25; $22 seniors; $12 students.
▶ Yellow Barn, 63 Main St.
Information: 802-387-6637;
yellowbarn.org.
Farmers' markets
Farmers Market: Enjoy a variety of
goods made in VT and NH including produce, meat, cheese, maple
syrup, bread and bakery items, soap,
jewelry, and handcrafts. Local producers also have offerings for dinner,
plus free family entertainment and
educational opportunities (Every
Fri. until mid-Oct.)
▶ 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. (till 6:30 in Oct.).
▶ Bellows Falls Farmers Market,
Bellows Falls Waypoint Ctr., Depot
bffarmersmarket.com.
T O W N S H E N D Townshend
Farmers Market: Fresh and preserved fruits and vegetables, flowers, seeds and seedlings, honey
maple syrup, natural fibers, eggs,
meats, cheese and other farm products. Homemade baked goods and
other prepared foods and drinks
that contain local ingredients.
Plants grown by the vendor. Studio/
workshop/ homemade items utilizing local agricultural materials and
traditional crafts (spinning, weaving, blacksmithing, glassblowing,
wood-crafts, soap and candle-making, pottery).
▶ 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. behind the
Country Store.
▶ Townshend Farmers Market,
6573 Rte 30. Information: 802-8744800; westtownshend.org.
The written word
Seniors:
Internet Scams, Computer
Viruses, Malware, and More:
The Brattleboro Senior Center and
Community of Vermont Elders
(COVE) will inform seniors about
common internet scams, computer
viruses, malware, and other suspicious electronic happenings.
▶ 10 a.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Brattleboro Senior Center, 207
Main St. Information: 802-257-7570;
[email protected].
Write Action
Open Readings: Read your own
work: poetry, prose, and/or come
to listen to local writers. There is an
8-minute time limit for each reader.
Refreshments served. This event is
held every third Friday of the month.
▶ 7:30 p.m. (directly above the
Catherine Dianich Gallery).
▶ Free; donations welcome.
▶ Bluedot, 139 Main St., #607.
Information: arlene@arlenedistler.
com.
Kids and families
Kids and families
BRATTLEBORO Summer Lunch
B R AT T L E B O R O
BRATTLEBORO
Program: Brooks Memorial Library
is a free Summer Lunch Site for children this summer. Mondays through
Fridays.
▶ noon -12:30 in the Meeting
Room, 3rd fl.
▶ Through Friday, August 21.
▶ Free for kids up to age 18; $3.50
for each adult(s) joining their kid(s).
▶ Brooks Memorial Library, 224
Main St. No registration or sign-up
802-254-5290; brookslibraryvt.org.
BRATTLEBORO Summer Family
Picnic: Connect, eat, have fun. Free
food, refreshments, activities. Pizza
provided by Rigani Pizza. Hosted by
Southeast Vermont Building Bright
Futures.
▶ 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., up the hill from
the pool.
▶ Free.
▶ Kiwanis Shelter, Memorial Park
Dr. Call Chad for a ride or more details: 802-451-8627.
BRATTLEBORO Morning Art
Camp: Individualized approach to
creativity, nurturing each child's
imagination. Kids ages 6-12 experience different art-making stations,
break for a healthy snack and lively
activity, and finish-up with more creative time. By end of week, young
artists will have their own creations
in multiple mediums--sculptures,
paintings, drawings, and more.
▶ 9 a.m. - noon.
▶ Through Monday, August 10.
▶ $175 a week (Mon.-Fri); $38 day.
▶ River Gallery School of Art, 32
Main St., #201. Information: 802257-1577; rivergalleryschool.org.
Dance
Latin Dance
Salsacise: Learn basic Salsa,
Mambo, Cumbia, Cha Cha and
Merengue dance steps in this fun
class. Go at your own pace; no experience necessary. Wear comfortable
clothing and shoes. With Judy Rivera
Harrigan. (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
▶ 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
▶ $10; $60 for 4 weeks (8 classes).
▶ G ra ce C o t ta g e H o s p i ta l
Community Wellness Center, 133
Grafton Rd., Rte. 35. Sign-up:
802-365-3649.
TOWNSHEND
BRATTLEBORO
Kidsplayce
Healthy Snack and Story Time:
We'll read a story (or a few) and
make a healthy snack, together with
a Brattleboro Food Co-op volunteer.
Every Friday.
▶ 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
▶ Free and open participation, but
Kidsplayce fees apply if you want to
stay and play afterwards.
▶ KidsPLAYce, 20 Elliot St.
Information: 802-254-5212.
BRATTLEBORO Frozen Treats:
Cool off with homemade frozen
goodies. Make chocolate covered
bananas with a twist, and yummy
yogurt berry pops.
▶ 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Brattleboro Food Co-op, 2 Main
St. Pre-registration required: 802246-2842, [email protected].
DOVER Soup-or-Hero Cooking
Program: Lesson in making homemade soup and a variety of hero
sandwiches. For ages 8 and up.
▶ 10 a.m. - noon.
▶ Free.
▶ Dover Free Library, 22 Holland
Rd. Pre-registration required: 802348-7488; doverfreelibrary1913.
org.
Well-being
BRATTLEBORO Meditation: Free
mindfulness class. Mountains and
Rivers Mindfulness Community.
(Every Friday)
▶ 7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m., Room 2E.
▶ Free.
▶ Marlboro College Graduate
Center, 28 Vernon St. Information:
802-387-2382.
Film and video
"The Vermont Movie:
People's Power": Part 6 of "The
Vermont Movie: Freedom and Unity"
tackles contemporary tensions over
energy, independence, the environment, and VT's future. Movie follows
the Senior Lunch.
▶ 1 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Guilford Community Church,
Crnr Rte. 5 and Guilford Center Rd.
GUILFORD
Performing arts
WEST CHESTERFIELD
"Moonlight and Magnolias":
Staged Reading: In this slapstick
comedy, Bob Gruen as Ben Hecht
tries to explain to David O. Selznick
how "Gone With The Wind" will
never work as a movie.
▶ 7:30 p.m.
▶ $8 at the door.
▶ Actors Theatre Playhouse,
Corner Brook & Main St.
atplayhouse.org.
Music
The Butterfly
Swing Band: Community night of
dancing and swing music. Swing
dance lesson by Emily Fox followed
by the band. Visit www.butterflyswingband.com.
▶ 7:30 p.m. lesson; 8:30 p.m. - 11
p.m. dancing.
▶ $7 ($10 at door).
▶ The Arts Block, 289 Main
theartsblock.com.
B R A T T L E B O R O V i b ra n t
Ensemble: "Spirit and Energy of
the Gong": Stephan Brandstatter-percussionist, multi-instrumentalist,
ethnomusicologist--plays an array
of gongs, chimes, Tibetan bowls,
bells, frame drum, dumbek, and
more. Dennis Waring plays soprano
sax, clarinet, a variety of flutes, and
ocarinas.
▶ noon - 1 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Brown Bag Lunch Series, River
Garden, 157 Main St. Information:
802-246-0982; strollingoftheheifers.
com/calendar.
P U T N E Y Masterclass: Ignat
Solzhenitsyn:
▶ 10:30 a.m.
yellowbarn.org.
PUTNEY Pre-Yellow Barn Concert
Discussion:
▶ 7 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Putney Public Library, 55 Main
home.svcable.net/putpub.
P U T N E Y Kurtag, Dohnanyi,
Haydn, and Brahms:
▶ 8 p.m.
yellowbarn.org.
MARLBORO Marlboro Music
Festival: Chamber music concerts
(Bach, Beethoven, and other classics) by the College's leading musicians--pairing master artists with
exceptional young professionals
(60-80 works are in rehearsal each
week.) Also pre-concert chats 45
minutes before each performance.
▶ 8:30 p.m. Saturdays; 2:30 p.m.
Sundays.
▶ Through Sunday, August 16.
▶ $15 to $37; 20% discount for
BMC members.
▶ Marlboro College Persons Hall,
2582 South Rd. Information: 802254-2394; marlboromusic.org.
GREENFIELD
Instruction
ALSTEAD Beekeeping Workshop:
With Charles Andros, former NH/VT
Apiary Inspector.
▶ 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
▶ $35, children under 18 free if
with parent.
▶ Linden Apiaries, 18 MacLean
Rd. Information: 603-756-9056;
[email protected].
Art walks and tours
NEWFANE 2015 Rock River Artists
Open Studio Tour: View each artist's creative process, purchase
artwork, and interact directly. Visit
rural villages with rustic studios
down county lanes, or high up in the
hills with spectacular views; studios
with lush gardens and landscaping,
tucked in the woods, or along the
river's edge. Starting at the historic
Old Schoolhouse, there'll be a sampling of work from each of the 14 artists. Pick up a map to the locations
and begin your self-guided tour.
▶ 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Old South Newfane
Schoolhouse, Auger Hole Rd. and
Dover Rd. Chris Triebert: 802-3487440; [email protected].
The written word
Pettee Memorial
Book Sale:
▶ 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. on the lawn.
▶ Free.
▶ Pettee Memorial Library, 16 S.
petteelibrary.org.
WILMINGTON "True North":
Reading by Jayanne Sindt During
Saturday's Village Stroll: Sindt
reads from her books, "True North-An Arctic Fable" and "Mato Finds
True North (told in illustrations
and rhyme)."
▶ 5 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Bartlebys Books, 17 W. Main
myvermontbookstore.com.
WILMINGTON,
Kids and families
Kids Craft
Hour: Various projects. Ages 2-10.
(Through 7/25)
▶ 11 a.m.
B R AT T L E B O R O
SATURDAY
C O N T.
▶ $5.
▶ The Crafty Cauldron, 80 Main
vtcrafty.com.
PUTNEY Children's Nature Walk
and Scavenger Hunt: Leisurely
walk with Pat Shields to the summit
of Putney Mountain. Or hike on your
own and pick up a Nature Scavenger
Hunt at the kiosk. Putney Mt. Scout
pins awarded to those completing
the hike or scavenger hunt.
▶ 10:30 a.m. (rain date: 7/19).
▶ Free.
▶ Putney Mountain Assn., Putney
Mountain Rd. Information: 802-3875787; putneymountain.org.
Well-being
Al-Anon: For
friends and relatives of alcoholics.
(Every Saturday)
▶ 3 p.m. (side entrance to lower
level).
▶ St. Michaels Episcopal
Church, Putney Rd. and
B r a d l ey Av e . I n f o r m a t i o n :
vermontalanonalateen.org.
S O . N E W F A N E The Art of
Formulation: Infused Honeys &
Syrups: In this third class in The
Home Medicine Maker Course, we'll
discuss the ins and outs of creating
delicious, effective formulas, based
on our developing understanding of
solubility, energetics, synergy, balance, etc. Then we'll make honeybased medicines for participants to
take home. Kids welcome.
▶ 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
▶ $40; $20 kids if old enough to
participate.
▶ Old Ways Herbal, 569 Dover
oldwaysherbal.com.
BRATTLEBORO
Community building
Trail Day at
Manitou: A group will gather to clear
trails and develop Manitou's 10-mile
trail system.
▶ 9 a.m. - noon (meet in the parking lot and stay for as little or as long
as you wish).
▶ Manitou Project, 300 Sunset
Lake Rd. Mary Stowe: 802-380-6778;
[email protected].
B R AT T L E B O R O The
Hive: Monthly Potluck and
Conversation: Monthly gathering
for updates and group visioning
around our various projects: mutual support cells, skill shares, crisis response alternatives, support
groups, and more.
▶ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ The Root Social Justice Center,
28 Williams St., 1st fl. Information:
[email protected].
SUNDAY
C O N T.
WILMINGTON Antiques Appraisal
Show: Bring item(s) for appraisal
by Tom Tomaszek, an antiques
dealer, collector and appraiser.
Sponsored by the Historical Society
of Wilmington.
▶ 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
▶ $5 per item.
▶ Memorial Hall, 14 W. Main St.
Julie Moore: 802-464-3004.
BRATTLEBORO Ferns of Fields &
Wetlands: First of a 2-part series on
the Ferns of Hogback, with naturalist Patti Smith. After an intro to the
ferns of our region, their curious
life cycles, and key characteristics
used to identify fern species, walk
the trails of the old ski area to look
for ferns growing in sunny and damp
places, such as bracken fern, sensitive fern, marsh fern and royal fern.
▶ 3 pm (meet in field behind white
A-frame bldg on Rte 9 just west of
gift shop. Park in lot north of Rte 9).
▶ Free.
▶ Bonnyvale Environmental
Education Center, 1221 Bonnyvale
beec.org.
Celebrations,
festivals,
community meals
Community
Block Party: Free hot dogs, Bounce
house, fun games for the whole
famiy, giveaways, and a chance to
see the Brattleboro fire trucks.
▶ 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Whetstone Church, 28 Birge St.
WILLIAMSVILLE Williamsville
Hall 7th Annual BBQ Dinner: BBQ
Plate: Chicken, Pulled Pork, Beans,
Cole Slaw, Corn Bread. Vegetarian
Plate: Tempeh Wrap, Vegetarian
Beans, Cole Slaw, Corn Bread. The
food, generously provided by Top of
the Hill Grill, benefits the Hall Fund.
▶ 6 p.m.
▶ $12; $8 kids under 10; $1
beverages.
▶ Williamsville Hall, Dover Rd.
Steven Levine: slevine@svcable.
net.
BRATTLEBORO
SUNDAY
19
Performing arts
▶ Through Friday, July 24.
▶ By donation.
▶ In-Sight Photography Project,
49 Flat St. Information: 802-2519960; insight-photography.org.
Community building
21
BRATTLEBORO Brattleboro Food
Co-op Shareholder Forum: Created
by shareholders and for shareholders; open to all. Some issues discussed to date: hiring of the general
manager and store manager, policy
governance, and improving participation and communication.
▶ 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. in the Community
Room.
▶ Free.
▶ Brattleboro Food Co -op,
2 Main St. Information:
[email protected].
Dance
BRATTLEBORO Paneurhythmy:
A sacred, meditative dance from
Bulgaria, this joyful practice continues on Wednesdays and Sundays
until the fall equinox (weather
permitting).
▶ 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. near the top of
the park.
▶ Free.
▶ Living Memorial Park, Guilford
St. Ext. Rupa Cousins: 802-387-5276;
[email protected].
BRATTLEBORO Community
Circle Dance: All dances taught. No
partner needed. All welcome. Led by
Flo Lockerby.
▶ 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
▶ River Valley Aikido Center,
11 Cottage St. Parker Huber:
802-257-9108.
MONDAY
20
Music
Jennie
Reichman: Singer/Songwriter:
These intimate songs draw inspiration from life's challenges and small
triumphs. Jennie recorded the CD,
"Storm in the Distance."
▶ noon - 1 p.m.
▶ Free.
com/calendar.
PUTNEY Masterclass: Viola: Kim
Kashkashian instructs.
▶ 8 p.m.
▶ $10; $9 seniors, $5 students.
yellowbarn.org.
GUILFORD Bob Stabach Jazz
4tet Celebrates Dave Brubeck
/ Potluck: Eugene Uman, piano;
George Kaye, bass; Jon Fisher,
drums; and Bob Stabach on sax.
Along with celebrating Brubeck's
best-selling jazz album "Time Out,"
enjoy originals and tunes from the
great American Songbook.
▶ 6 p.m. potluck; 7 p.m. concert.
▶ $8 to $15 (sliding scale).
▶ Wendys Soiree. Call Wendy
Redlinger for directions: 802-2546189; [email protected].
BRATTLEBORO
Recreation
Gymnastics
Camp for Kids 5-16: Directed by
Amanda Montgomery. Kids should
bring a nutritious snack and drinks.
(One-week sessions: 7/27-7/31;
8/3-8/7; 8/10-8/14). Sponsored by
Brattleboro Rec. & Parks.
▶ 9 a.m. - 12 noon.
▶ $75 per week ($90 for non-Brattleboro residents). Shorter weeks
pro-rated.
▶ Gibson-Aiken Center, 207 Main
St. Information: 802-254-5808.
BRATTLEBORO
Kids and families
Brave Young
Vaudevillians: Kids ages 6-9 learn
theater skills. At end of session,
they put on a vaudeville-style performance for family and friends.
Mentors Hayden Bunker and Cory
Sorensen teach clowning and leading games. Also outdoor activities, field trips, and visits by the
Bookmobile. (Repeats 8/3-8/14)
▶ 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
▶ $450 for 2 weeks.
▶ New England Youth Theatre,
100 Flat St. Information: 802-2466398; neyt.org.
GUILFORD Lunch at the Library:
Join friends for midsummer lunch.
After eating, kids can read, play
lots of board games and cards, use
a computer, or just catch up with
friends. (Also 7/23-24)
▶ 12:30 p.m.
▶ Through Wednesday, July 22.
▶ Free.
▶ Guilford Free Library, 4024
Guilford Center Rd. Information:
802-257-4603; sover.net/~wilken/
guilfordlibrary.
BRATTLEBORO
Ideas and education
Writing and
Photography: Explore the relationship of the still image with the written word. Learn how to develop a
personal written narrative to your
images and create illustrative images to go along with your writing.
Taught by Evie Lovett and Michelle
Stephens.
▶ noon - 4 p.m.
BRATTLEBORO
Instruction
SO. NEWFANE Four Season Tree
Identification: Join Juliette Carr
and Arborist Henry Carr in their
forest classroom to learn how to
identify trees all year long-- common trees of forest and field, including basic botany and using all our
C O N T.
senses to expand our knowledge.
The group will practice on a tree ID
walk. For beginners and intermediate students.
▶ 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
▶ $30; $10 kids.
▶ Old Ways Herbal, 569 Dover
oldwaysherbal.com.
WILLIAMSVILLE
Ideas and education
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Farmers' markets
BRATTLEBORO Local Farms and
Vendors: Tuesdays through 10/27.
▶ 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on the
Whetstone Walkway.
brattleborofoodcoop.coop.
Kids and families
BRATTLEBORO Lively Musical
Experience for Toddlers and
Preschoolers: Designed to support
healthy cognitive, physical, and social development, children will sing,
clap, stomp, dance, and play along
with a curriculum of traditional and
modern folk songs, while enjoying
the fresh air and beauty of nature.
Led by Robin Morgan. Tuesdays
through 7/21.
▶ 10 a.m. (rain location:
KidsPLAYce, 20 Elliot St.).
▶ $10 (if pre-register); $15 drop-in.
▶ Crowell Park/Lot, Western
Ave. Information: 802-490-2312;
[email protected].
DOVER Superhero Meet & Greet:
Meet some superhero favorites, ask
questions, get autographs.
▶ 6:30 p.m.
▶ Free.
doverfreelibrary1913.org.
Dance
Latin Dance
Salsacise: Learn basic Salsa,
Mambo, Cumbia, Cha Cha and
Merengue dance steps in this fun
class. Go at your own pace; no experience necessary. Wear comfortable
clothing and shoes. With Judy Rivera
Harrigan. (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
▶ 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
▶ $10; $60 for 4 weeks (8 classes).
▶ G ra ce C o t ta g e H o s p i ta l
Community Wellness Center, 133
Grafton Rd., Rte. 35. Sign-up:
802-365-3649.
BRATTLEBORO Tango Open
Practice Sessions: All levels.
Newcomers and curious visitors
are welcome to participate or watch.
Complementary snack buffet. Every
Tuesday.
▶ 8:45 p.m.
▶ $5.
▶ Stone Church in Brattleboro,
210 Main St. Information: 603-9239743; [email protected].
TOWNSHEND
Ideas and education
BRATTLEBORO "Slow, Spread,
Sink: Managing Stormwater
Runoff to the Whetstone Through
Permaculture Stormwater":
Runoff from Hurricane Irene started
at the higher elevations in the
Whetstone watershed and ran down
hill, flooding Elm, Flat and Frost Sts.
Discussion on how to slow, spread
and sink water on your property,
where it won't harm existing infrastructure and might save you
money.
▶ 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ Brooks Memorial Library, 224
Main St. Cimbria: 914-588-7274.
Celebrations,
festivals,
community meals
BRATTLEBORO Lemonade Party:
Homemade lemonade varieties.
Experiment with fresh herbs and
berries, adding flavor and variety.
Instead of sugar, we'll use maple
syrup and honey for our sweet summer drinks.
▶ 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. in the cooking
classroom.
▶ Free.
St. Pre-registration required: 802246-2842, [email protected].
WEDNESDAY
22
Music
West African
Drum Class: With Raoul Ombang.
Drums available for those who
need one.
▶ 6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
▶ $10.
▶ Stone Church in Brattleboro, 210
africandancevt.com.
PUTNEY Children's Concert: This
annual concert welcomes families
for a special performance and opportunity to interact with Yellow
Barn's international community of
musicians.
▶ 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ The Greenwood School, 14
Greenwood Ln. Information: 802387-6637; [email protected].
WEDNESDAY
Recreation
30th Annual
Youth Services Tourney: Youth
Services invites area golfers to participate to support the safety net for
youth. Lunch is followed by shotgun
start for the Texas Scrambles format
tournament. After the tournament,
enjoy the banquet sponsored by
G.S. Precision.
▶ noon - 1 p.m. lunch.
▶ $130; $520 per foursome. Fee
covers greens fees and cart, buffet
lunch, and dinner. $35 dinner only.
▶ Brattleboro Country Club, 348
Upper Dummerston Rd. Register:
802-257-0361; youthservicesinc.
org/golf.
BRATTLEBORO
Kids and families
Super Storytimes: For
ages 2-6 (Wed. through 8/12)
▶ 10:30 a.m.
▶ Free.
doverfreelibrary1913.org.
G R A F T O N Mountain Bike
Adventure Camps: Environmental
camps promote physical fitness,
personal responsibility, and teamwork. Focus on mountain biking
techniques and explorations of our
natural environment. Kids learn
mountain bike skills, bicycle repair,
and trail safety. Daily rides to areas
not often visited that help keep
Vermont in its ecological balance.
Plus swimming, adventure games,
orienteering, canoeing and kayaking, pond and stream explorations,
and more. (This is Camp #1, ages
5-16. Six additional camps throughout the summer.)
▶ 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
▶ $325 (25% off each additional
child; $50 additional for bike rental).
▶ Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center,
783 Townshend Rd. Information:
802-843-2400; graftonponds.com.
DOVER
Well-being
BRATTLEBORO Yoga in an Art
Gallery: Relax and reinvigorate--the
best of both worlds. Postures are accompanied by conscious breathing.
Crystal bowl sound healing, some
chanting. Dante leads each class.
▶ 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
▶ By donation.
▶ Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main
St. Information: 802-257-4777.
BRATTLEBORO Lunchtime Yoga
for Co-op Shareholders: All-levels
yoga class led by a different local
teacher each week. Bring a yoga
mat. (Every Wednesday)
▶ noon - 1 p.m. in the Community
Room.
▶ Free for shareholders.
[email protected].
BRATTLEBORO Psychosynthesis
& Certified Life Coach Trainings:
Learn about Psychosynthesis training, spiritual psychology, and upcoming programs, plus national
Board Certified Coach accreditation.
This class includes a presentation,
activities, and discussion.
▶ 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
▶ Free.
▶ The Synthesis Center, 73 Main
St., #3. Information: 802-451-6768;
[email protected].
Dance
BRATTLEBORO Chelsea Agee:
African Dance Vermont: Agee focuses on teaching dances from
Guinea. All levels.
▶ 7:15 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
▶ $12 to $15 (sliding scale).
▶ Stone Church in Brattleboro, 210
africandancevt.com.
Visual arts
and shows
Matthew J.
Peake: Pastels: Featuring an aerial
perspective of people in abstract
ways--by gestural shape--on a geometric background in a form he calls
"Overlooks."
▶ 7/22: 6:30 p.m. opening
reception.
▶ Through Friday, August 14.
▶ Free.
▶ Main Street Arts, 37 Main
mainstreetarts.org.
SAXTONS RIVER
Ideas and education
Empowering
Seniors to Prevent Medicare
Fraud: Vermont Senior Medicare
Patrol (SMP) is a volunteer and
education program to help protect
Medicare beneficiaries from becoming the victim of healthcare fraud,
error, or abuse. "Protect. Detect.
Report" is helpful to those who
are just turning 65, are already on
Medicare, or are caregivers. Visit
www.vermontelders.org.
▶ noon - 1 p.m.
▶ Free.
com/calendar.
BRATTLEBORO
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THE COMMONS
■ Rock River Tour
Turning ‘cool
things’ into
furniture
Dan DeWalt, the fifth stop on
the tour, also gets much of his
inspiration from the outdoors.
Although he is a trained, fourthgeneration furniture maker, and
fine period antique furniture restorer, DeWalt said he has “really gravitated more and more”
toward his unique custom-made
pieces using found objects.
“I spend a lot of time outside,
year-round,” he said, “and I see
all these cool things.”
On the Rock River Artists
Tour website, DeWalt wrote
that his recent works “have been
fashioned using old figured lumber, barn siding, fence posts, flywheels and harness parts.”
When he sees a “wonderful
thing” on his walks, DeWalt said,
“I grab it, put it in my ‘cool thing’
collection, and then pull from it”
when the time is right to turn it
into art, allowing the shapes and
textures to organically guide the
design process.
One example of a “cool thing”
DeWalt noted was a “massive
redwood root” a friend brought
him from the West Coast “five
or 10 years ago.”
Another is “two pieces of
barbed wire, each with some
old pine stuck in them,” and
he said the wood also looks like
barbed wire.
He said he is happy to make
pieces from “a perfectly fine
pile of fancy lumber,” but “using found objects is changing
the game.”
In his latest batch of work,
he invited the objects “to lead
me around,” and he utilized the
“unintended consequences from
found materials.”
DeWalt said he helped start
the Rock River Artists Tour.
He described neighbors visiting
neighbors, admiring one another’s work.
“People are doing quality
work, and we should do a group
tour and show,” DeWalt said
of the early conversations he
had with other artists along the
Rock River.
“It worked!” he said.
DeWalt also appreciates the
opportunity to receive guests to
his studio.
“Most of my work is custom
work,” so “very few people come
into my shop,” he said.
Of his tour mates, DeWalt
said, “We’re all people who actually survive doing our art.”
“What’s really cool is, when
people really get a slice of” life
as a working artist, DeWalt said,
adding the artists’ studios on
the tour are “extensions of our
homes.”
“They are places where we do
our art, and they reflect our personalities,” he said. “They see
our art,” he added, “but they
see what kind of people we are.”
DeWalt noted some studios
are meticulous, while others are
chaotic. “I work in my bare feet”
sometimes, he added.
Most of DeWalt’s work is
done by hand, on a workbench.
He said people, upon entering his
studio, “are always kind of surprised.” They ask him, “Where
are the machines?”
The tour artists are “lucky
enough to live in a really beautiful area,” DeWalt said. “We
don’t wake up in a place we hate,
then go to work.”
“Our art reflects that.”
Making art you
can live with
Matthew Tell demonstrated
to a visitor recently one of the
techniques — chattering — that
he uses to create some of his textured pottery pieces.
As a drinking vessel turned on
the wheel, Tell held a banding
iron gently against its exterior.
The iron began vibrating, leaving a shallow, striated pattern in
the clay as the sturdy mug went
all the way around.
Most of Tell’s pieces are functional, pottery for serving, for
eating, for gardens, for “flower
arrangements, garden pedestal
tables, and birdbaths.”
“My forms are based on floral
and organic forms,” and pointed
out to a visitor a large, colorful
platter sitting on an intricately
carved wooden bench. “That’s
my sunflower design,” he said
of the platter.
Tell said he uses no toxic
ingredients in his homemade
glazes, which he characterized as
similar to Japanese shino glazes.
He said they are made of corn
ash.
Firing in Tell’s wood-fired
kiln takes 16 to 20 hours, and
he stokes the kiln every 20 to 30
minutes.
“I do three to five firings per
year, and I use two-thirds of a
cord each firing,” he said, adding that the owner of a local mill
is happy to give him the scrap
for the kiln, because it cannot
be sold with the regular lumber.
Tell says he sort of fell into
pottery by accident. In his last
term of his senior year in high
school, Tell took a clay course.
“I fell in love with the stuff,”
he said.
Searching for a “good liberal arts pottery program,” Tell
found Marlboro College, where
he studied with Michael Boylen
and Malcolm Wright.
Tell also fell in love with the
area, and after briefly moving
away, he returned to southeastern Vermont, eventually helping
found Brattleboro Clayworks.
A professional potter since
1983, Tell said he was invited to
join the Rock River Artists Tour
“the first few years” of its inception. He notes his studio lies just
outside the tour’s current boundaries, and were he to ask to join
today, he might not be allowed.
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“I was grandfathered in,” he
said.
Tell said in past years, people have been enthusiastic upon
reaching his studio, perhaps because “they’ve earned it” by making their way through the deep
woods where South Newfane,
Marlboro, and Dummerston
meet.
Because his stop is slightly off
the beaten path, visitors might
get confused by their unfamiliarity with the rural locale, where
few cellphones offer reception.
Along North Pond Road, approaching his driveway, Tell
puts “encouragement” signs on
the side of the road, with messages like “Keep going!,” “You’re
Almost There!,” and “Really,
You’re Almost There!”
“Urban people think the dirt
roads go on longer than they really do,” he said.
Upstairs from Tell’s studio is
his gallery. During the tour, he
said he does not want people to
feel rushed. “I leave them alone
until they have questions,” he
explained.
Plus, he will likely be downstairs during the tour, working on
new pieces, and guests can watch
him work if they like.
Creating the luster
Richard Foye, who said he
has “been involved with the
tour right from the beginning,”
will also offer demonstrations
throughout the weekend, and
his pottery is quite different from
Matthew Tell’s.
His pieces, using a 16th-century Japanese technique called
raku, results in vibrant, iridescent colors not often seen on traditional glazed pottery.
The colors are a result of combustibles, not additions to the
glaze. “Strictly speaking, traditional raku glaze had no color
in it,” Foye wrote on the tour
website.
After the initial firing in his
outdoor kiln, which reaches
temperatures up to 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit, Foye puts the
pieces in smaller ovens along
with straw, pine cones, and other
organic materials.
The combustible materials
burst into flames, and because
he has covered the ovens, no
additional oxygen can come in.
“That creates the luster,” he
said, noting the iridescent blues
and greens come from copper
in the glazes. Foye said cobalt,
iron, and chrome are other metals used in pottery glazes, each
creating different colors in the
finished product.
As a hummingbird buzzed
above the yellow daylilies in
Foye’s yard, he pointed out the
carmine-colored feathers on the
bird’s neck. Suddenly, as the
bird changed its position, the red
turned to black.
Foye explained “it’s the exact
same physical process” how we
at the
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Richard Foye checks his kiln.
see the colors in the glazes of his
pottery and those of the bird’s
neck: light waves slow down
within the crystalline structures
of the interference colors. When
our eyes see different light waves,
our brains interpret that as seeing different colors.
Foye attributes his foray into
pottery to Putney-based potter
Ken Pick, a roommate at the
University of Vermont where
Foye was a philosophy major.
During their senior year, Foye
said Pick began spending time in
the pottery studio. Upon coming back to their shared room,
Pick shared tales of how much
he loved the art. “Ken got me
so excited about pottery, I had
to check it out,” he said.
For 10 years, Foye, who has
a master’s degree in teaching
from Antioch University, taught
pottery at the Fletcher Farm
School for the Arts and Crafts in
Ludlow. He said his students became interested in the technique,
so he learned it to teach them.
Raku, Foye said, “became the
thing to do in the ’60s and ’70s.”
Beginning in the 1980s, Foye
noticed “80 to 90 percent of the
pieces I sold were raku,” so “the
message was quite clear. I have
stuck with it since.”
Although Foye said the tour
provides a “significant” portion
of his yearly income from pottery sales, money is not his only
motivating factor.
“The tour has educational
value,” he explained.
Foye said he appreciates the
“rough simplicity,” “serendipity,” and “delightful surprise” of
raku, and notes its qualities come
from “the way you prepare and
use the clay, not just in the firing” of the pieces.
“You relinquish control,”
Foye said, noting raku is like
raising children. “You send your
kids to college, then it’s out of
your hands. You send them out,
and you have no idea what you’re
getting back,” he said.
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The 23rd annual Open Studio Tour
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and Sunday, July 18 and 19, from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., starting at the
Old Schoolhouse in South Newfane
village. There, you’ll see a representative sampling of work from
each of the participating artists,
and you can pick up a map to their
studios. Admission is free all weekend. For more information, contact
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Richard Foye encourages guests to
attend Saturday night’s barbecue
at Williamsville Hall. He said Jon
Julian, owner of Brattleboro’s Top
of the Hill Grill, will be cooking.
Foye also mentioned the unofficial
title of the barbecue: “Aporkalypse
Now.” (Vegetarian options are
available, notwithstanding.)
The dinner is served Saturday,
July 18, from 6 to 8 p.m., at
Williamsville Hall, with pulled
pork, chicken, baked beans, cole
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Guilford Center Stage seeks help with new production
GUILFORD—Guilford
Center Stage announces auditions for its first production,
Tourists Accommodated, a comedy by Vermont author Dorothy
Canfield Fisher.
Auditions will be held on
Wednesday, July 22, from 6 to
8 p.m. at the Grange in Guilford
Center. Those unable to attend
during those hours may contact
the directors for an audition.
Guilford Center Stage is
the work of Grange members
Laura Lawson Tucker and Don
McLean, and was formed in response to community requests
for more arts and other events on
the building’s small stage.
This project begins as plans to
renovate the 1896 building are
getting under way. The updates
focus on accessibility, fire safety,
and winterizing the space so the
Grange can be used year-round.
Until that work is completed,
which may still take a couple of
years, Center Stage is keeping its
plans modest. But the organizers do want to have something
on stage during this transition
period.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher was
living in Arlington in the early
1930s Depression years, when
her sewing circle started talking
about the fact that some of the
households in town were earning
needed extra income by renting
rooms to tourists for the night.
As the ladies started chiming in
with funny stories about this, the
group realized it would make an
amusing play.
Fisher went home and drafted
Tourists Accommodated, took it
back to her sewing group for
comments, and it was a big hit.
Performances of the play will
take place on Columbus Day
weekend, Friday, Oct. 9, and
Saturday, Oct. 10.
Community actors of various
ages are needed for the sizable
cast. There are both speaking and non-speaking roles for
children, from age 5 to around
age 12, many of whom will appear in just one of the six scenes.
One or two parents with children
may be on stage together.
There are a number of principal roles and smaller ones for
adult men and women. You may
come prepared with a monologue, or use a passage from the
play. Scripts will be available for
those wishing to read a part or
engage in dialogue.
Center Stage is also welcoming those who might wish to help
with sets, costumes, or backstage work.
Flyers with more information, and
samples of audition speeches, are
available at public buildings and
businesses in Guilford. For more
information of any kind, contact
the play’s director, Don McLean,
at 802-257-1961 or assistant director Laura Lawson Tucker at
802-257-7024.
BCTV wins two national media awards
BRATTLEBORO—
Brattleboro Community
Television (BCTV) has won
two national “Hometown Media
Awards” from the Alliance for
Community Media.
This marks the third time that
BCTV’s highlight reel of local
programming has won a national award from the Alliance
for Community Media.
Production Manager Roland
Boyden produces the video
each year for BCTV’s Members
Meeting to showcase the variety
of video subjects produced annually and the stories “behind-thescenes” of how those videos are
created by volunteers and staff.
Boyden distilled more than
1,000 hours of local shows into
an eight-minute compilation that
illustrates how BCTV serves its
eight-town service territory.
Boyden’s highlight reel has won
in the category, “About Access
and Empowerment,” every time
it’s been submitted — 2011,
2013, and now 2014.
The other winning BCTV
video was in the “Government
Profile” category and was produced by Emily Richards and
Kathy Urffer.
The 30-minute documentary chronicles the Brattleboro
Department of Public Works’
valiant effort to replace the
Whetstone Sewer Interceptor
after it was destroyed during
Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.
It shows how the DPW crew
prevented thousands of gallons of sewage from entering
the waterway. The video also
incorporates footage from area
videographers, local news, and
historical sources.
In the video, Brattleboro
DPW Director Steve Barrett
and Supervisor Skip Fletcher
document their department’s
response to the extreme conditions presented by Tropical
Storm Irene.
Executive Director Cor
Trowbridge will attend the ceremony in Pasadena, Calif., in
August to accept the awards on
behalf of BCTV.
BCTV covers Brattleboro,
Guilford, Dummerston, Jamaica,
Newfane, Putney, Townshend,
and Vernon.
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THE ARTS
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■ Almanac Dance
Almanac was founded in 2013
by Gillette and Grinberg, graduates of the Pig Iron School
for Advanced Performance
Training, with Kerbel, a graduate of the Headlong Performance
Institute.
The players were selected as
2013-2014 Fresh Tracks artists at New York Live Arts, as
the resident company at the
Philadelphia School of Circus
Arts, and as artists-in-residence
at Mascher Space Cooperative.
Their work has been presented by the Tyler Arboretum
and the Pew Center for Arts and
Heritage, Circus Now!, New
York Live Arts, and many other
places.
Almanac’s roots began five
years ago when Grinberg and
Gillette met as students at Pig
Iron School, “the only graduate
physical theater program in the
country,” Grinberg said.
Grinberg, who originally did
not plan to dedicate himself
to physical theater, graduated
magna cum laude from the
University of Pennsylvania with
a degree in classical studies. But
at the same time he continued to
pursue his love of theater — all
kinds of theater.
“I have been performing since
I was 11 in community and
professional theater companies,” says Grinberg. “Beyond
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traditional theater, one of my
early inspirations was Pilobolus
dance company, which had
headquarters in my hometown.
I took workshops and even performed with them. Circus came
later.”
Grinberg has directed or written and directed more than a
dozen full-length circus and
theater productions, including
Inventions!, a showcase for new
ideas in contemporary circus in
collaboration with Cirque du
Soliel’s Rachel Walker.
Shows include Reefer Madness,
Mr. Marmalade, Carlo Goldoni’s
Servant of Two Masters , and
Euripides’ The Cyclops.
To help put on a commedia dell’arte version of Agatha
Christie’s The Mousetrap,
Grinberg took an intensive
course at Pig Iron to learn the
16th-century Italian form of improvisational theater.
“I was so taken with the place
that I jumped on the idea when
they started a school,” Grinberg
said. “I am proud to say that I
was in its first-ever class.”
After graduating, Grinberg
and Gillette wanted to create a
physical theater ensemble based
on total collaboration.
“That includes everything,
from structure and power to the
way all our decisions are made,”
says Grinberg. “All of our works
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at Almanac, including Leaps of
Faith, were created that way.”
A piece at Almanac often
starts with improvisation.
“But when we find something
that works through improvisation, we hone that nugget until
it becomes a perfect piece of the
puzzle,” explains Grinberg. “Our
finished works are set pieces, although sometimes there might
be a short section that remains
improvised.
“Many of our other short and
longer works use dialogue, but
Leaps of Faith is the first time we
are working with a writer, Josh
McIlvain. While most of our
work has a clear storyline and
all of our characters carry their
own history, here we are adding
an extra element with a definitive text.”
Grinberg has often found the
revue structure of a circus arts
show a bit dull.
He says, “We are challenging
that cabaret structure, because
we feel continuity through narrative and character is important,
even though all stage performance is character driven to
some degree. I think that once
onstage it is impossible not to become some kind of a character.”
Music also plays an important
role in Leaps of Faith. Composer
Lamborn has created a partially
improvised score that uses upright bass, singing bowls, and
electronics.
“Almanac performs all the
time, but to do so we must be
adaptable,” says Grinberg. “Our
company has created many
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Faith on a New England tour,
with stops in Connecticut,
Providence, Maine, and
Brattleboro.
New England Center for
Circus Arts (NECCA) is “a big
reason” the company is performing in southern Vermont,
Grinberg said.
“We have a lot of friends and
acquaintances in Brattleboro
because of NECCA,” says
Grinberg. “One of our members,
Cole DellaZucca, is a graduate of
that circus school.”
An Almanac company member since 2014, Nicole Burgio
(a.k.a. Cole DellaZucca) is “an
internationally recognized acrobat and aerialist, specializing in
partner acrobatics and static trapeze,” according to the Almanac
website.
“She is primarily a circus artist
who has worked with major companies throughout the world,”
said Grinberg. “It is challenging
to find artists for our company
because they need so many skills
that include dancing, circus arts,
and theater.”
Before DellaZucca began performing with Almanac, “she had
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Members of the Almanac Dance Circus Theatre will never acted, and never had been
be coming to SoBo Studio in Brattleboro on July 25 in a work longer than 5 to 7 minand 26.
utes,” he said.
different kinds of works for varying occasion, in venues as different as theaters, dance halls, beer
gardens, restaurants, and avant
garde performing space. We have
even been the entertainment at
award ceremonies.”
Almanac has numerous small
works in its repertoire, but Leaps
of Faith is only its second evening
length piece.
“A work like Leaps of Faith
takes much time and effort to
put together, “ says Grinberg.
“During our time free from performing, we have worked on it
20 hours a week for most of the
past year.”
After its acclaimed world premiere last June at the Fleisher
Art Memorial in Philadelphia,
Almanac is taking Leaps of
Performances of Leaps of Faith will
take place at SoBo Studio located
on the third floor of 74 Cotton Mill
Hill #346 on Saturday July 25,
at 8 p.m., and Sunday July 26, at
2 p.m. Tickets are $15. Advanced
tickets can be purchased online at
www.sobodance.com or at the door.
Advance tickets or reservations
are highly recommended as space
is limited.
Fundraiser
Donations Accepted
An evening with author
Vermont Humanities Council grant funds Brattleboro Literary Festival
JON KATZ
BRATTLEBORO—The
Vermont Humanities Council recently awarded a $3,000 grant to
the Brattleboro Literary Festival.
This year’s Literary Festival
takes place Oct. 1-4, and is a
four-day celebration of those
who read books, those who write
books, and of the books themselves. The Festival includes
readings, panel discussions, and
Dover Town Hall
August 6th, 7pm
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special events, featuring emerging and established authors. All
events are free and open to the
public.
VHC’s Grants program supports nonprofit organizations
that conduct humanities-related projects; this spring VHC
awarded a total of $16,300 to
these organizations.
Twice a year, through a
competitive grant process, VHC
makes awards to museums and
libraries, film, music and literary festivals, local historical
societies, and other nonprofit
organizations to support public
humanities programs that contribute to the achievement of its
mission. VHC makes awards of
up to $5,000.
In 2014, VHC granted a total
of $36,000 to 19 organizations.
Organizations wishing to apply
should visit vermonthumanities.org
or call 802-262-1355. Letters of
intent for the fall 2015 application
round are due Sept. 4. Final applications are due Oct. 16 and grant
awards will be made in the second
week of December.
A different kind of Cowboy Tour pushes the boundaries
The Paisley Fields puts a gay spin on country music at The Root
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Paisley Fields are taking their
boundary-pushing brand of
country music on the road, and
will be riding into Brattleboro on
Thursday, July 16, at 7:30 p.m.
at The Root Social Justice Center
on Williams Street. Opening are
local folk acts badweatherfriend
and Bella.
Along with their award-winning original music, The Paisley
Fields will add some classic
country covers to their raucous
live shows.
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a good bit in common with
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production, songs with pop
bones and twangy accents — the
band probably won’t be touring
with Toby Keith anytime soon,”
according to the Pittsburgh City
Paper . “Songwriter and lead
singer James Wilson doesn’t
dance lyrically around the fact
that his songs are about relationships with other men; they’re
sometimes tender, sometimes
virulent, but unmistakably gay,
a refreshing change from country radio.”
As a gay man, Wilson is not
the cowboy hat wearing, good
ol’ boy one pictures when thinking about country music. The
Brooklyn resident and pianist
cuts a different kind of cowboy
figure. Wilson, along with the
rest of The Paisley Fields, is unapologetic about pushing boundaries and seeking inspiration in
the unexpected.
Their song “Windows Fogged
Up In Your Pickup Truck” was
written for Wilson’s longtime
boyfriend, now husband, Ryan.
The video follows a gay couple as
they meet, fall in love and eventually get engaged. The band’s
videos have more than 100,000
views on YouTube.
Although many of the songs
are written from a gay man’s
perspective, the music includes
themes like loss, heartbreak
and love.
“The Paisley Fields’ music is
not only unique, but the lyrics
are thoughtful and can strike a
chord with any audience member,” according to singer Anna
Volpe.
For information, visit
thepaisleyfields.com, where you
can also check out Wilson’s new
blog about being a gay country musician in New York City . Their first
EP, “Oh These Urban Fences...,”
is due out later this summer.
Stabach 4tet celebrates Dave Brubeck
GUILFORD—Wendy
Redlinger’s Jazz Soiree will
host the Bob Stabach 4tet on
Monday, July 20, at 7 p.m, preceded by a potluck dinner at
6 p.m.
The quartet includes Eugene
Uman, piano: George Kaye,
bass; Jon Fisher, drums; and Bob
Stabach on sax0phone.
In this performance, the quartet celebrates Dave Brubeck’s
best selling jazz album, Time
Out, which went platinum (1
million copies sold) in 1961.
“Take Five,” from this album,
became the best selling jazz single of all time.
Since 1982
Time Out in its time was extraordinarily experimental and,
at the same time, a huge hit with
its innovative use of unusual time
signatures such as 5/4 and 9/8.
Common time signatures are
usually 4/4 and 3/4.
President Bill Clinton once
said he was inspired to take up
the saxophone after hearing Paul
Desmond’s sax playing on the
Time Out album.
This evening’s concert will
also feature originals as well as
tunes from the Great American
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Bob Stabach will lead his
For more info, call Wendy at 4tet in a house concert on
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Nominations
requested for
Old House
Awards
ROCKINGHAM—The
Rockingham Historical
Commission (CLG) is seeking nominations for the
Rockingham Old House
Awards.
“This is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the
property owners in our town
who are restoring and renewing their historic homes
and commercial buildings,”
wrote Christy Hotaling, CLG
Coordinator for the Town
of Rockingham, in a news
release.
There will be multiple
award categories and, therefore, multiple awardees. In the
past, categories have included
awards for best commercial
building, apartment building,
private residence, long term
maintenance, and curb appeal.
The categories for this year
have yet to be determined as
they depend on the nominations that are received by
property owners, neighbors,
or admirers.
Those who want to nominate their house or commercial building can contact
Hotaling. Anyone can nominate a resident who has
recently improved the appearance of an historic house
or building in town.
Eligible properties are older
homes that have been renovated, painted, or otherwise
enhanced on the exterior in
the past five years. Properties
must be located within the
Town of Rockingham, including the villages of Bellows
Falls and Saxtons River, the
hamlets of Cambridgeport,
Bartonsville and Brockway’s
Mills, and the town’s rural
areas.
To qualify, properties must
be at least 50 years old and
may be residential or commercial in use. Nominations may
be made by calling the Town’s
Development Office (802463-3964, ext. 110), sending
an email to [email protected], or
writing to: CLG Coordinator,
Town of Rockingham, P.O.
Box 370, Bellows Falls, VT
05101.
All nominations should include the property’s address
and, if possible, the owner’s name. Photographs are
welcome.
The deadline for nominations is Thursday, July 30.
The Rockingham Historical
Commission will select winners at its meeting in August.
There will be a small gathering
in September to celebrate the
winning property owners and
to distribute the Old House
Awards plaques.
This program is supported by a grant from the
Vermont Division for Historic
Preservation.
Rockingham deals
with Act 148
that Westminster/Rockingham
Waste and Recycling and
Drop-Off center was a “great
ROCKINGHAM — Act facility.”
148, the state food waste recycling law, moved one step
closer to full implementation VerMed changes
on July 1, with the second of owners, gets
five phase-ins leading to residential food recycling in 2020. state grant
The rules introduce a stateROCKINGHAM —
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requires residential trash be device manufacturer, VerMed,
charged based on volume or was recently bought by
weight. They also ban recycla- Buffalo, N.Y.-based Graphics
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transfer stations and drop-off
According to an article in
facilities to accept leaf and Vermont Business Magazine,
yard debris.
Citizens Bank provided the
Residential haulers must financing for the purchase. In
now offer residential recy- a Citizens Bank press release,
cling with no separate charge. Graphic Controls President/
Public buildings must provide CEO Sam Heleba said, “I was
recycling containers along- born and raised in Vermont
side trash containers in public very close to VerMed, [so]
spaces, except in restrooms. making this acquisition is quite
Joe Ruggiero of Saxtons special to me.”
River, owner of Ruggiero
VerMed employs 85 with
Trash Removal, said the big- annual revenues over $10
gest impact for his drivers is million, according to Vermont
educating customers about Business Magazine. It was rerecyclables, and getting them cently approved for Vermont
to separate them out.
Employment Growth
Asked if his business was Incentives totaling $506,750
“just a job” or if it had greater as part of an incentive package
signficance to him, Ruggiero that also included $200,000
said, “I am a grandfather, and from the Windham County
I think that it is a good idea to Economic Development
try to save the Earth.”
Program to help ensure conHe said he would not want tinued growth of new jobs in
to sacrifice anything affecting Bellows Falls.
his grandchildren’s health, and
“The support of Vermont’s
considers recycling efforts to Governor Shumlin, Patricia
be a healthy choice. He added Moulton from the Agency of
that, like many healthy choices Commerce and Community
these days, his customers may D e v e l o p m e n t , a n d t h e
pay more in the end for overall Vermont Economic Progress
recycling, but, “it’s important” Council was fundamental
for the health of the planet.
in ensuring continued job
S o u t h e r n W i n d s o r / opportunity and growth for
W i n d h a m S o l i d W a s t e our manufacturing site in
Management District man- Bellows Falls,” said Heleba.
ager Tom Kennedy told the “They acted at the speed of
Rockingham Selectboard business.”
that a new two-year conAccording to a news retract had been approved with lease, Graphics Controls will
Casella Resource Solutions, a be adopting the VerMed name
Vermont-based national trash as their global medical division
and recycling company. He identity.
told the Selectboard in May
VERMONT AGENCY OF TRANSPORTATION
“Fix me before tradgedy,” someone wrote on the deteriorating Arch Bridge in Newfane.
Compromise may be near on
new Arch Bridge design
By Wendy M. Levy
The Commons
NEWFANE—As Newfane
weighs its options on the needed
replacement of the Arch Bridge,
a new possibility has emerged
that may bridge the gap between
those who want to retain it as a
single-lane span, and those who
feel it should have two lanes. [See
“Arch Bridge needs replacing ...
but with what?” Town & Village,
May 27]
During the July 6 regular
Selectboard meeting, Chair
and Roads Foreman Todd
Lawley noted one possible
solution named at the June
29 special Selectboard meeting with Vermont’s Agency of
Transportation (AOT) was to
build a bridge that is both one
lane, and two.
He said if the town chooses a
bridge the width of a two-lane
span, the AOT is willing to paint
lines to narrow the travel lanes
and install a three-way stop sign
to effectively make the bridge
one lane and calm traffic.
Then, during emergencies
and snow storms, wide vehicles
including the town plow trucks
could successfully and easily
cross the bridge, and navigate
the sharp turns to get on and off
the structure, Lawley said.
During the process of deciding on the new bridge, residents
promoting a one-lane bridge
voiceed their concern at the
possibility of a two-lane bridge
encouraging drivers to speed
across it, and through the village
of Williamsville. Many said they
feel a one-lane span will, by design, force drivers to take it slow.
At the July 6 meeting, Board
member Marion Dowling read
four pieces of correspondence
townspeople wrote to the Board
about the bridge; three of them
supported a two-lane bridge, and
one was neutral.
A few mentioned the bridge’s
use during Tropical Storm Irene
as the only road able to reach
some sections of Windham
County, and how crucial it is to
ensure the span can accommodate delivery trucks to shuttle
food and other supplies during
emergencies.
During the June 29 meeting,
Lawley “also noted that Tropical
WESTM IN STER
Compass School
students use
their laptop
computers. Soon,
every student at
the school will
get their own
computer for
school work.
Compass School to provide
computer access for every student
WESTMINSTER—Since its
inception 16 years ago, Compass
School’s mission has been to
provide real-world learning for
its students. The school has a
Community Service Winter
Term; its junior class travels to
the Dominican Republic in its
Global Connections program;
it holds all-school spring trips
and Project Week that connect
students to the world beyond the
classroom walls.
“Next year, Compass will
encourage even more connections by providing computers
to assure every student has access to the technological world,”
according to a press release from
the school.
Compass School will join
25 other schools in the state
and the Tarrant Institute of the
University of Vermont to implement a one-to-one computer initiative. The goal is to improve
equity by ensuring every student,
regardless of family income, has
access to computers.
The focus for Compass, according to Director Rick Gordon,
is to further increase personalized learning for students.
“We have always been flexible in helping each student find
pathways to success in school.
Improved use of technology can
help us do better with helping
students be accountable for desired learning goals and providing structures for individualized
learning opportunities.”
Although one-to-one is the
common term for the move to
assure access for all, it doesn’t
convey the intent imagined at
Compass. “We prefer the idea
of one-to-world,” according to
science teacher Louise Hodson.
“The idea is to connect students
to the world, not have each student tied to a computer screen.”
Gordon, along with teachers Kellie Crowder and Ryan
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Storm Irene was not the only incident that closed Route 30 and
cited a situation three weeks
prior where a traffic accident
closed Route 30, necessitating
the Depot Road and the Arch
Bridge to be used as a detour for
approximately three hours,” according to the meeting’s notes.
But the Selectboard still needs
to decide what kind of bridge
it wants, and the clock is ticking. The Board hopes to get
its decision to the AOT before
September.
Lawley said the topic will
be on the agenda at the next
Selectboard meeting, and he
and the Board invite public
comment.
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Hockertlotz, spent a week in
June with more than 200 other
Vermont educators at Vermont
Technical College to plan for the
one-to-one initiative.
“The great thing about our
work,” Crowder said, “is the focus is not the technology but,
rather, on student learning.”
Assistant Director Eric
Rhomberg summed up the effort at Compass, “Whatever our
views on technology, it is part
of the lives of our students. We
need to get better at using technology and guiding our students
to use technology responsibly,
wisely, and skillfully.”
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Guilford Historical
Society presents
life and times of
Walter Needham
Health (NIH), in collaboration
with CDC, which showed that
lifestyle changes and modest
weight reduction can prevent or
delay the onset of Type 2 diabetes by 58 percent among those
with prediabetes.
In order to qualify for the
YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention
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at least 18 years old, overweight,
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AROUND THE TOWNS
Putney Library
holds StoryWalks
in school forest
PUTNEY — The Putney
Public Library, in partnership
with the Putney Central School,
are happy to present a new summer reading program that will get
you out of the house and into the
School Forest.
StoryWalks are picture books,
mounted as signs along the
Loop Trail in the School Forest.
Families can read the story as
they walk along the trail. Take a
right after crossing the bridge and
begin their latest StoryWalk, Eric
Carle’s “A House For Hermit
Crab”, starting on July 15.
The story will change every two weeks, and every story
your family “walks” can count
towards one stamp in the logs
of anyone participating in the
Putney Library’s Summer
Reading Program! Be sure to
sign the trail log at the School
Forest Kiosk to tell about your
StoryWalk adventure.
Dummerston
Historical Society
hosts quarterly
meeting
DUMMERSTON — The
quarterly meeting of the
Dummerston Historical Society
will take place on Thursday,
July 16, at the Historical Society
Schoolhouse on Middle Road in
Dummerston Center.
A short business meeting will
be held at 6 p.m., which will
include an update on the proposed building addition, followed at 6:30 p.m. with a BYO
(Bring Your Own) picnic supper.
(Sorry, no cooking facilities will
be available).
At 7, GinMillBill will lead everyone in a sing-a-long of “oldtime” tunes. In case of rain, the
Dummerston Congregational
Church will be available.
Bring your own chairs and/or
blankets and, of course, your
friends. Questions? Call Gail at
802-254-9311.
Super animals visit the
Rockingham Library
BFDDA hosts
annual meeting
BELLOWS FALLS — All
are cordially invited to attend
the Bellows Falls Downtown
Development Alliance’s
(BFDDA) annual membership
meeting on Thursday, July 16,
at 6 p.m., at Windham Antiques
on Rockingham Street.
Topics at the meeting include
a discussion of all that BFDDA
has accomplished in the past
year and a presentation of the
Work Plan for the coming fiscal
year. They will also be electing
new board members and officers. Following a short business
meeting, there will be a presentation on a downtown topic.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, call
their office at 802-460-2333.
BELLOWS FALLS — The
Rockingham Free Public Library
invites you to discover Super
Animals with the Southern
Vermont Natural History
Museum on Thursday, July 16,
at 5 p.m.
Which animal can hold their
breath for four months? Who
can survive freezing solid? Who
can see a cricket from 100 yards
away? Find out during this exciting and engaging program from
the Southern Vermont Natural
History Museum! Live animals,
active storytelling, touchable artifacts, and interactive demonstrations make this a perfect program
for all ages.
This program is presented as
part of the “Every Hero Has a
Story!” summer reading program. For more information,
call the library at 802-463-4270,
email [email protected],
or go online to rockinghamlibrary.org (www.rockinghamlibrary.
org).
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Rec. Dept. presents
juggler at TGIF
Morning Matinee
BRATTLEBORO — The
Brattleboro Recreation & Parks
Department, as part of the TGIF
Morning Matinee, presents juggler Jason Tardy at the Living
Memorial Park Rotary Theater
on Friday, July 17, at 10:30 a.m.
Tardy presents a complete
character education performance
that will grab everyone’s attention, while showing them the
importance of setting goals and
making positive choices.
After performing at the White
House on three separate occasions, and touring the world as
a professional artist for over 20
years, he is living proof that a
strong education, hard work,
and dedication is a direct path
to a successful future.
Tardy combines his high energy juggling and physical comedy as hecandidly addresses
important topics such as bullying, making healthy choices,
personal responsibility, and not
being afraid to fail.
This show is free and day care
groups are welcome to attend. If
there are special needs required,
call the Recreation & Parks
Office at 802-254-5808. In case
of rain, the show will be moved
inside to the Nelson Withington
Skating Facility.
Windham hosts
chicken barbecue
on July 18
WINDHAM — The
Windham Community
Organization’s annual Chicken
Barbecue and Raffle happens
Saturday, July 18, at 5 p.m., at
the historic Windham Meeting
House, 26 Harrington Rd., on
the corner of Windham Hill
Road.
Described by some as “the
perfect old-fashioned community barbecue with really good
food, great friends, and nice
country music,” the Windham
barbecue will be serving up
Walter Woodruff’s own “Special
Recipe” chicken cooked over a
wood fire.
Baked beans, potato salad,
green salad, homemade sweet
breads, and homemade strawberry shortcake topped with
fresh whipped cream are all included for the price of $10 for
adults, $5 for children or $25
for families. Be sure to get there
early and try your luck on the raffle of crafts by talented Windham
artisans, and enjoy music by
Windham musicians.
Look for the big tent outside
the Windham Congregational
Church/Meeting House. All proceeds benefit Windham area residents through WCO.
BELLOWS FALLS — Have
you ever been warned to never
PUBLIC NOTICES
Pursuant to the provisions of 32 VSA, Section 4404(b), notice is
hereby given that the Board of Civil Authority within and for the Town
of Dummerston will on the date listed below, meet in the *Dummerston
Town Office* in said town to hear grievances of person, or other parties,
who are aggrieved by the action of the board of Listers and have timely
filed their written grievances with the Town Clerk. Date: July 22, 2015
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GUILFORD — On Sunday,
July 19 at 2 p.m., in the 1837
Guilford Center Meeting House,
the Guilford Historical Society
will present a program on Walter
Needham, author of A Book Of
Country Things, and a former
resident of Guilford. A special
lecturer, his daughter, Anna,
will be present to share some of
her recollections of her father.
Scenes from Needham’s early
appearance on NBC television
will be shown.
The Needhams lived a hard
scrabble life in a tiny former
“slate diggers shanty” on Route
5 south of Guilford’s Village
of Algiers. A combat veteran
of World War I in France,
Needham worked for some
time at the Estey Organ Works
in Brattleboro. He showed an
amazing talent for mastering
old tools and later, with support
from a local author, J. Barrows
Mussey, he authored A Book Of
Country Things.
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
Following the program, the
Guilford Historical Museum,
across the road from the Meeting
House, will be open. Items relating to the Needhams will be on
special exhibit. A brief business
meeting of the Society will be
held at 1:30 p.m., preceding the
lecture. Information: 802-2548024 or 802-257-7306.
YMCA’s Diabetes
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Hinsdale House hosts to be offered at BMH
Colonial encampment BRATTLEBORO — The
HINSDALE, N.H. — The
Hinsdale Garrison Company
will portray family life during the
1750s at a Colonial encampment
at the Col. Ebenezer Hinsdale
House on Saturday, July 18,
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The encampment dramatizes the period of time when
Col. Hinsdale built his garrison
house and grist mill, and about
the time the town of Hinsdale
was chartered.
Demonstrations of fire making, hearth and bake oven cooking, enjoying music, sharing
news, and preparing for the protection of the family including
casting lead balls, musket maintenance, and firing. Members
also mend baskets, create cording with lucets, work with needle
hitching and knit. There will be
time for children to play at hoops
and stilts as well as nine men’s
morris and draughts.
Admission is $5 for adults and
free for students and children under 18. There will be a bake sale
and lunch available.
Free solar observation
program at BF
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look directly at the sun? Were
you tempted to anyway? Come to
the TransCanada Bellows Falls
Fish Ladder Visitor Center on
Saturday, July 18, between 11
a.m. and 1 p.m. to safely soak
up some sun at a solar observation workshop presented by The
Nature Museum at Grafton.
Bob Dudley, from the
Southern Vermont Astronomy
Group (SoVERA), will bring a
telescope with a special solar filter that will allow guests to safely
look at the sun. Learn about sunspots and find out what makes
the sun the most important star
which sustains all life on Earth.
Astronomers will be available to
answer your questions about the
sun. This is a free family program
and is recommended for ages 8
and up.
Astronomers use special telescopes to study the sun’s face
and areas called sunspots, which
are large magnetic storms in the
sun’s atmosphere. Scientists are
interested in studying this magnetic activity because it can affect the earth in multiple ways.
Remember to never look directly
at the sun as you could lose your
eyesight!
Dudley, is a retired research
chemist who spent much of
his professional career with the
federal Agricultural Research
Service.
The Fish Ladder Visitor
Center in Bellows Falls will
be open Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend on Fridays, Saturdays, and
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission and programs are always free.
YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention
Program helps adults at high risk
of developing Type 2 diabetes
reduce their risk for developing
the disease by taking steps that
will improve their overall health
and well-being.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)led evidence-based program
is delivered over a 12 month
period in a supportive small
group classroom setting. Sixteen
weekly one-hour sessions are followed by eight monthly sessions.
Facilitated by trained lifestyle
coaches Teri Kneipp and Nancy
Schaefer, the class is scheduled
to begin July 21, and will be
held at Brattleboro Memorial
Hospital from 3 to 4 p.m..
Through a partnership with
the Greater Burlington YMCA
and Vermont Blueprint for
Health (Department of Vermont
Health Access), this program is
being offered to Vermonters free
of charge.
The YMCA’s Diabetes
Prevention Program is based
on the landmark Diabetes
Prevention Program (DPP) led
by the National Institutes of
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Kenneth F. Cole and Kathryn
J. Cole to Northeast Home Loan, LLC dated May 15, 2001 and recorded in Book 75 at Page 279 of the Dummerston
Land Records, and assigned to Passumpsic Savings Bank on or about May 23, 2001 and recorded in Book 76 at Page
108 of the Dummerston Land records, and pursuant to the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale
issued by the Vermont Superior Court, Windham Unit on May 7, 2015, in the case entitled Passumpsic Savings Bank
v. Kenneth F. Cole and Kathryn J. Cole, Docket No. 305-7-14 Wmcv, the property which is the subject of the foreclosure
action will be sold as follows:
TIME AND PLACE OF PUBLIC SALE: The property described in the mortgage will be sold at Public Auction at 2:00 p..m.
on August 13, 2015 at the property’s address known as 295 School House Road in the Town of Dummerston, Vermont.
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: Being a parcel of land said to contain 2.01 acres, more or less, with a dwelling house
thereon, known and numbered 295 School House Road in the Town of Dummerston, Vermont; and being all and the
same lands and premises conveyed to Kenneth F. Cole and Kathryn J. Cole by the Warranty Deed of Allen K. Rounds,
Sr. and Janice Rounds dated May 18, 2001 and recorded in Book 75 at Page 277 of the Dummerston Land Records.
TERMS: The highest bidder will be required to pay a deposit of $10,000.00 in certified funds or by bank treasurer’s check at the time of the auction. The highest bidder will be further required to pay by certified funds or bank
treasurer’s check within seven days of the date of the auction an additional deposit to make the total deposit equal to
10% of the auction bid. The highest bidder will also be required to sign a Purchase and Sale Agreement at the time
of the public auction.
RIGHT TO REDEEM: The Mortgagors Kenneth F. Cole and Kathryn J. Cole are entitled to redeem the property at any
time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.
Other terms to be announced at the sale. Inquiries may be made with Thomas Hirchak Company, 1878 Cadys Falls
Road, Morrisville, Vermont 05661. Telephone 802-888-4662.
Dated at St. Johnsbury, Vermont this 30th day of June 2015.
Law Office of Charles D. Hickey, PLC
Christine M. Pierpont, Esq.
Attorney for Passumpsic Savings Bank
TOWNSHEND — Gerda’s
Animal Aid, a nonprofit horse
rescue organization dedicated
to saving slaughter-bound
horses, will host its second annual Navajo Horse Blessing on
Sunday July 26, beginning at
10:30 a.m.
All are welcome to attend. It
is a moving, spiritual and healing
experience for horses and people
alike. They are located at 5825
Route 30, and may be reached
at 802-874-7213.
Registration begins for
BAJC Hebrew School
WEST BRATTLEBORO —
It’s not too late to register children in the Brattleboro Area
Jewish Community Hebrew
School.
Congregation Shir Heharim
(Song of the Mountains),
the Brattleboro Area Jewish
Community, offers a once-aweek religious school for youngsters from age 6 up to 13 or
older.
The school offers a vibrant
child-centered program that
teaches Hebrew language studies
as well as songs, stories, prayers,
holiday observances, customs
and traditions, history, current
events, and all things Jewish.
Anyone who is planning to become a bar- or bat-mitzvah must
be enrolled for a minimum of
two years.
Classes meet at the synagogue
at 151 Greenleaf Street in West
Brattleboro for 31 Mondays during the regular school year, from
3:45 to 5:45 p.m., and from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. for the b’nai mitzvah class. The first day of classes
this fall will be Sept. 21. Tuition
is $350 for children of BAJC
members and $700 for children
whose parents are not yet members. Scholarships are available
in cases of financial need.
For more information about
the school, and for a link to
a registration form, visit www.
bajcvermont.org, leave a message at
802-257-1959, or e-mail faith@
bajcvermont.org.
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• Wednesday, July 15, 2015 TOWN & VILL AGE
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NEWFANE — Lynn Forrest,
co-chair of the Planning
Commission, informed the
Selectboard at its July 6 regular meeting that her group
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NEWFANE— Brattleboro
Development Credit
Corporation (BDCC) Executive
Director Adam Grinold and
Laura Sibilia, BDCC’s director of economic and workforce development, visited the
Selectboard at its July 6 regular meeting to update the town
on the Southeastern Vermont
Economic Development
Strategies (SeVEDS) project.
Sibilia shared with the
Board some of the findings of
SeVEDS’s recently completed
Comprehensive Economic
Development Strategy (CEDS),
which is an “economic roadmap
to diversify and strengthen the
regional economy,” according
to SeVEDS’s website (seveds.com/
ceds-projects).
“We need to increase the size
of the workforce,” Sibilia said.
“That’s a pretty big agenda
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wants to add additional members, and asks for their help with
recruitment.
The commission currently
has four members, and Forrest
explained that at least one more
person would help it run more
smoothly, especially when someone is sick or unavailable. Board
Chair Todd Lawley told Forrest
the commission could have seven
members if it saw fit.
Discussion ensued with audience members, past Planning
Commission officials, and the
Selectboard weighing the effect
adding members would have on
meeting quorum, and promoting better representation for
Newfane and Williamsville.
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Commission is authorized to
have five members, Town Lister
Doris Knechtel said “my recommendation would be to find
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NEWFANE — The work on
Steepway Road continues, according to Selectboard Chair and
Road Foreman Todd Lawley.
The road was damaged
when Wireless Connection, the
use that can help the economy.”
Grinold and Sibilia listed a few,
including the Entergy settlement
funds, the paid college internship
program, the CEDS study, and
access to federal, state, and regional entities.
“The beauty and the curse of
Vermont is, one person can do a
lot, or can stop a lot,” Sibilia said,
noting the “common challenges”
small towns share, but “a lot can
be done.” SeVEDS can help, she
said, by bringing tools and helping towns connect.
"
Steepway Road update
[item] for SeVEDS.”
This includes attracting new
skilled workers to the area, and
retaining those who are already
here, partly by raising young people’s awareness of regional employment opportunities.
Board member Marion
Dowling asked Sibilia and
Grinold how the Newfane
Selectboard could help the
BDCC with SeVEDS’s plans to
“grow the economy.”
“You’re doing it,” Grinold
said, by learning about and understanding Windham County’s
economic situation.
Grinold said the BDCC is
“actively seeking input on economic development,” and where
the town may see a challenge,
the BDCC might see it as an
opportunity.
He told the Board, “we have a
lot of different tools that we can
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NEWFANE — Citing his
displeasure with the Windham
County Sheriff’s Department
from the perspective of his role
as Roads Foreman, Chair Todd
Lawley suggested to his fellow
Selectboard members that the
town decline to renew the department’s contract.
Lawley’s complaints involved
what he saw as a lack of responsiveness from the department. He said he had asked the
sheriff to send someone to the
Selectboard “once a month” to
give an update, and that has not
happened.
“We’ve asked them to do patrols on the back roads because
there have been so many breakins, and I don’t even know if
they’re doing that because nobody shows up here to give us
an update,” Lawley complained.
Administrative Assistant
Shannon Meckle said she noticed receiving an increase in
revenue from the department
just before the contract was to be
renewed; this money came from
traffic tickets.
Board member Mike
Fitzgerald said the Selectboard
“specifically asked them not
to” increase traffic patrols and
give tickets. Instead, he said the
Board requested the department increase their presence on
the town’s back roads by patrolling them.
Lawley also mentioned asking the Sheriff’s Department to
help remove cars from rightsof-way in the winter so the town
could plow the roads, and to
assist in directing traffic during an accident on Grimes Hill
Road. Lawley said the Sheriff
Department’s response was “Ask
the Vermont State Police."
So, they did.
At the July 6 regular meeting,
Fitzgerald made a motion for
Newfane to enter into a one-year
contract with the Vermont State
Police to patrol the town. With
the exception of Carol Hatcher,
who was absent from that meeting, the Board unanimously
passed the motion.
company that installed AT&T’s
cell tower on Newfane Hill,
“took it upon themselves to
haul stone, fill our ditches in,
and leave a bunch of stone in
the road,” as Lawley told the
Board in May. [See “Steepway
Road Suffers Damage,” Town
& Village, June 3.]
After receiving complaints
about the condition of the road,
the town contacted Wireless
Connection, which agreed to
restore the road to its original
condition.
Lawley informed the Board at
its July 6 regular meeting that he
recently met with the contractor,
crews have done some work on
the road, and that there is still
some more work to do.
“The road’s quite a bit better than it was,” Lawley told the
Board, noting “the ditching they
did looks good,” and “at least
you can get over [the road] now."
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safety within the area.
“Instead of having a neighborhood watch program, which
creates an ‘us versus them’ mentality, our goal is to continue to
unite neighbors to work together,
embracing our diversity and
getting to know one another,”
Robyn Flatley, a resident of
Elliot Street, said.
In 2011, a volunteer group of
neighbors met to discuss growing concerns about neighborhood safety issues. A survey
was conducted in 2012 to hear
directly from residents of the
triangle, giving them voice to
identify strategies for neighborhood improvement.
Since then, a group of volunteers — including landlords
— has met monthly. FEET has
sponsored Green Up Day for
three years, with high attendance.
FEET has also hosted community potlucks, including a
visioning event. “We have a
Facebook page with 58 neighbors as members, and we are
co-hosting a neighborhood block
party in August with Promise
Communities for all the neighbors,” says Flatley.
FEET also recently began a garden project, planting
200 bulbs on the corner near
Dompier Electric and adding
flower barrels throughout the
neighborhood.
“Thanks to a grant from
the Vermont Community
Foundation, we have been able
to reach out more to our neighbors,” said Kris McDermet,
who owns a home within the
Town approves $27,000 to support
Apartments in Homes program
BRATTLEBORO—The
Selectboard has approved
$27,000 for use over the next
three years by the Apartments
in Homes (AIH) program, an
initiative of Brattleboro Area
Affordable Housing (BAAH).
The funds will be used to
create nine new apartments in
single-family homes in town by
providing grants of up to $4,000
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affordable to low-income people in the Brattleboro area — the
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provides assistance for technical
and design support to homeowners to establish small apartments
inside pre-existing single-family
homes.
The program helps homeowners interested in creating
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where the housing stock has a
vacancy rate of 0.5 percent, a
rate that a press release from
BAAH describes as “extraordinarily limited.”
According to the organization, a healthy vacancy rate is 4
to 6 percent.
The model helps homeowners
to pursue rental income, helping
to keep the bills paid, and at the
same time it is energy and landefficient while increasing home
values and consequently the
town’s tax base.
Homeowners are free to rent
to whomever they wish, and
once there is a tenant, BAAH
remains available for guidance
and support.
“When you help people put
apartments in their homes, two
great things happen: you help
hard-pressed homeowners keep
their homes, and you increase the
supply of affordable housing in
our tight rental market,” Tyler
Maas, Apartments In Homes
Chair and member of the BAAH
Board, said in a news release.
Mass also noted that converting current housing stock into
apartments “barely changes the
streetscape and character of a
neighborhood, making it the
most logical means of creating
affordable housing.”
Since the program’s inception,
AIH has completed 45 apartments in and around town.
The total costs of creating an
apartment have ranged from
$8,000 to $45,000. Rental income normally repays that cost
within two to five years. After
that, net rent typically pays the
majority of the property tax.
Recent Vermont legislation
encourages the development of
apartments in homes as a landefficient means of adding affordable housing in Vermont’s
communities.
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this program may call 802-2462224, Ext. 1. More information
and a list of frequently asked questions is available at baahvt.org. This
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VIEWPOINT
BROK EN
What’s wrong with
the current federal
tax system? What
should it do? And
why should Bernie
Sanders’ proposals go
beyond simple tweaks?
B
Greenfield, Mass.
PHOTOILLUSTRATION BASED ON IMAGES BY RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT/THE COMMONS (SANDERS) AND JOHN MORGAN/CREATI
Bernie Sanders stumps for big changes in public policy, yet his proposals for reforming the federal income
tax code are what the author describes as “small ball.”
most significant complaint is that the tax law is not stable, that it
changes from year to year.
seemed like a mark that the United States had distinctly
It adds to the risk inherent in making real investment in prochanged direction.
ductive assets and efforts. Socially beneficial investments are
But even in the Democratic primaries, the discusdelayed until the tax consequences are known, and then they resion between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was of incidental
quire a higher rate of return to justify that unnecessary risk. (Both
tweaks on policy — nothing grand.
WHAT’S WRONG with the current tax system? What should the
Democratic- and Republican-led Congresses change the tax law
Although the Obama presidency proposed to be an invitation to tax system do?
frequently. They all tweak the code, even those who claim to value
review new priorities, his presidency has turned out to be mostly
• A functional tax system adequately funds government services.
the stability and predictability of tax law.)
Clintonesque “small ball.” Even the Affordable
Historically, the federal government has been suffi• A functional tax system is fair. A key criterion of fairness is proCare Act was incremental in effect — important,
ciently funded only during Democratic administragressiveness in actual tax rates paid. The more income a person or
RICHARD
but not Medicare for all.
tions. During both the Clinton administration (clearly) entity makes, the higher the marginal tax rate should be.
WITTY, a forIn the area of taxation, that was the case as well.
and the Obama administration (to a lesser extent), tax
But in modern tax law, that is not the fact for any of the types of
mer certified pubRather than undertake a comprehensive review of
rates have been high enough relative to federal spend- entities that are taxed.
lic accountant, is a
the way people in the United States are taxed, the
ing to generate surpluses.
For example:
financial managetax law has barely changed. The George W. Bush–
The Republican dogma of reducing taxes to stim—A self-employed plumber making $80,000 per year (a rement professional in
era tax reduction provisions and structures were exulate
investment
to
stimulate
economic
growth
has
ally
good plumber) pays a 25-percent federal tax rate, plus apBrattleboro.
tended and institutionalized. Even the tax increases
never borne out, except in very specific circumstances. proximately 15 percent in self-employment tax, plus state taxes
of the Affordable Care Act were relatively minor.
Currently, tax rates are still historically low, and
(40-percent marginal tax rate on every additional dollar of
Bernie Sanders, thankfully, implies something
government expenditure as a proportion of the Gross income).
different. But his proposals and invitation for policy review are
Domestic Product is also historically low.
—An employed plumber making $80,000/year pays a 25-pergrounded in the political conviction of social and economic equal• A functional tax system is comprised of functional law:
cent federal tax rate plus 7.65 percent Social Security/Medicare
ity. They are anything but academic.
Understandable and easy to apply, stable and predictable. Because the tax (32.65-percent marginal tax rate on every additional dollar of
tax law is so confusing, virtually all individuals earning beyond a
income).
ALTHOUGH TAXATION is a — or the — primary area of class fasimple salary must have a tax professional prepare their tax return,
—An employed executive making $200,000 per year pays a
voritism, the Sanders campaign to date has only spoken of tweaks, let alone think about the future.
28-percent federal tax rate plus 7.65 percent Social Security/
of adding additional populist features to an already-overburdened
Common citizens do not know what is expected of them or
Medicare tax on the first $118,500, then just over 1.45 percent
tax code, of closing relatively insignificant loopholes.
what benefits they are entitled to. Tax law is written in legalese
thereafter (29.45 percent marginal tax rate on every additional
The ability of large corporations to defer taxation by off-shoring that a minority of citizens understand.
dollar of income).
profits is aggravating. But reforming that situation does not signifLaw that is not understandable is not functional law. Law
—An investor using primarily inherited wealth to generate over
icantly fund the federal government, nor does it change the class
that requires professional knowledge and counsel over common
$465,000 in income from dividends and long-term investments in
favoritism inherent in the tax code.
knowledge of the law is inherently unfair. Further, the tax law has stocks/bond/real estate, pays a maximum of approximately 20 perBernie Sanders has not suggested a thorough review of tax
many examples of features that reward behaviors that are puncent federal tax rate, or 15 percent if less than $465,000 income.
structure. If he wants the progressive professional accountants of
ished in other parts of federal law and even in the tax code itself —
Why should the federal government tax working people at
the world to regard him seriously, he needs to. I and others fear
all a result of its unwieldiness.
nearly double the rate as those who invest? Why should the federal
that he will also undertake Clintonesque “small ball” in this most
The largest complaint of the country’s investing and business
government tax income from work at so much higher a rate than
critical policy area.
community about the tax law is not that taxes are too high. The
income not from work?
■ SEE TAXES, D2
OTH THE 2008 and the 2012 U.S. presidential elections
The tax system is broken, and it needs to be reviewed thoroughly. A tweak when a system is non-functional due to excessive
complexity actually makes it worse.
What we need is a Copernican reformulation: a new and simpler design.
VIEWPOINT
Police tackle racial bias head on
Never has it been more important to understand and change racially biased
policing if and where it exists — and Brattleboro is doing just that
F
Brattleboro
OR MUCH OF the past
eight years, well before Ferguson and
Baltimore were on all
our minds, the leadership of the
Brattleboro Police Department
(BPD) was considering various
approaches to officer education
in unbiased policing.
New recruits attending the
Vermont Police Academy participated in anti-bias policing
workshops. In 2014, all BPD
officers and dispatchers participated in a training provided
by the Vermont Partnership
for Fairness and Diversity
(vtpartnership.org).
This year, under Chief
Michael Fitzgerald’s leadership, the department is taking the bold step of investing
DIANA WAHLE, a collaboration and planning consultant as
well as developmental assets coordinator for Windham Southeast
Supervisory Union, works tirelessly on addressing issues of racism
in the community.
in a member of the force to be
regularly available to train all
officers and others from neighboring police departments in
these matters.
Chief Fitzgerald welcomes
this commitment: “We have
been proactive […] even before the unrest in this country, we have been aware of this
need […] and we have gradually changed as a department
over time.
“We need now to go to the
next level,” he says. “Our department is solid enough
that now we need to be the
trainers.”
RACIALLY BIASED policing is a
complex topic to work with and
tackle head on. Never has it
been more important to understand and change this practice
if and where it exists.
The right opportunity arose
when Chief Fitzgerald was
asked to send a representative
from his department in March
to a statewide session of “Train
the Trainer” program by Fair
and Impartial Policing (www.
fairimpartialpolicing.com), orga-
nized by the Burlington Police
Department.
He assigned Lt. Penny
Witherbee to represent
Brattleboro, and she was one of
26 officers from 10 police departments and the Vermont
State Police to attend.
Lt. Witherbee reflects on her
training experience:
“This was not the traditional
curricula at all. We were shown
that having a bias is normal and
that often our biases are unconscious — we really can’t deny
them, they are there,” she says.
“As law enforcement ofRANDOLPH T. HOLHUT/COMMONS FILE PHOTO
ficers, this understanding is
At a ceremony to commemorate Martin Luther King
huge. A good amount of time
Day this year, Brattleboro Police Chief Michael
in the training was given for
me to gain this awareness,” she Fitzgerald spoke of what his department is doing to
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SHADOW
VOICES D2
THE COMMONS
n Taxes
LETTERS FROM READERS
Special-interest
group turned
out the vote
R
E: “Firefighters boosted
the BF budget” [Letters,
Jun. 10]:
With only 3,000 residents,
it’s hard to justify a full-time
unionized fire department with
a budget of $321,775. Many
towns with far larger populations are superbly served by
volunteers.
Village President Nancy
McAuliffe is right in identifying
crushing taxes as a key factor
in the town’s decline. But with
union members dominating
the meeting and sowing unjustified fear in the few folks who
did show up to vote, the excessive municipal budgets will
continue.
A classic case of a special-interest group succeeding thanks
to lack of citizen participation.
Rick Cowan
Rockingham
We also have a
nuclear waste dump
at San Onofre
R
E: “State officials vexed
with VY process” [News,
Jul. 1]:
The good folks in Vermont
should be studying what we
have been going through for
several years after the decommissioning of San Onofre.
Check out SanOnofreSafety.org.
We did a poll, and 92 percent favored naming it the
Darrell Issa Nuclear Waste
Dump. We are supposed
to be one of the six nuclear
power plants in the country
that the National Academy of
Sciences wants to study for
cancer streaks. But the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission has
held up the funding for the
study. Apparently, they are
afraid of what it might reveal
for residents who live within 31
miles.
What are you doing now that
you have also become a nuclear
waste dump?
Roger Johnson
San Clemente, Calif.
Solar program: it
doesn’t make sense
not to participate
S
olar isn’t just for wealthy
homeowners anymore. As
a renter with a modest income,
I can’t install solar panels on
my building, and don’t have
the money to make the upfront investment.
So I’m planning to take out
a low-interest loan through the
new Windham County Solar
Loan Program and use it to
purchase shares in a community solar project. I estimate
that by doing so, I will cut my
electric bill by two-thirds and
save more than $10,000 over
25 years.
The monthly payments on
my loan will be less than my
monthly electric bill, so I’ll be
saving money right from the
start. It doesn’t make sense not
to do it.
If you’ve been thinking
about going solar, there’s never
been a better time than now.
The price of solar panels has
dropped by 50 percent or more
over the last two to three years,
and new financing programs
make solar truly affordable and
a great investment.
Homeowners, renters, landlords, and businesses can cut
their electric costs dramatically while supporting clean,
renewable power and local
jobs. For example, Brattleboro
Savings & Loan is now meeting 100 percent of its electrical
needs through participation in
a community solar project in
Brattleboro.
Brattleboro Climate
Protection and the Brattleboro
Energy Committee have
teamed up with five local solar installers to launch
Brattleboro Solar Summer, a
five-month campaign (May
through September) to support
residents in choosing locally
generated power. Our immediate goal is for at least 100
Brattleboro residents to install
solar electric systems on their
home, business, or rental property, or buy into a community
solar project during the campaign period.
The participating solar companies — Soveren
Solar, Sunnyside Solar Store,
Gary MacArthur Solar, Solar
Source, and Integrated Solar
— are offering discounts to
Brattleboro residents, with the
size of the discount depending
on the number of people who
sign up.
If you’re ready to go solar but wondering how to pay
for it, there are options that
can help. The Vermont State
Employees Credit Union
(VSECU), which is open to all
who live or work in Vermont,
offers low-interest loans for
a limited time to Windham
County residents to install panels or invest in community solar. For more information,
contact VSECU’s Brattleboro
office at 1-800-371-5291.
Residents can also take advantage of a 30-percent federal tax
credit that is set to expire at the
end of 2016.
There is more information
on Brattleboro Solar Summer
at www.brattleborosolarsummer.
org. Contact one or more of
the participating installers and
schedule a free site visit, or
find out how you can purchase
shares in a community solar
project. It’s never been easier
for our lives to be powered by
the sun.
Paul Cameron
Brattleboro
The writer is co-founder and executive director of Brattleboro
Climate Protection and serves as
the town of Brattleboro’s energy
coordinator.
n Police and bias
added. “How did I learn my biases in the first place? What environment did I grow up in?”
As a means of understanding their potential racial biases,
one particularly powerful training activity involved asking the
training participants to make
snap judgments in a difficult
situation.
Lt. Witherbee describes the
experience:
“Up on the screen, the trainers flashed a bunch of quick
pictures of different types
of people of varying gender,
age, and racial backgrounds,
each one holding an object.
Sometimes, it was a cell phone
or an apple, sometimes it was a
gun. Using our quick thinking,
we had to name the object.
“It was for us the ultimate
test: if you got it wrong it could
cost us our lives or we could
take a life. We need to come
from a positive vantage point.
Being aware in this way helps
me decide every day on the job:
‘Am I acting on my bias or am I
acting on the facts?’”
Lt. Witherbee has now not
only successfully completed the
training, but she also has been
asked to assist with similar programs nationally and internationally. Her first step, however,
is to offer regional trainings for
officers and supervisors from
her own department and other
law enforcement agencies in the
region.
To ensure regional participation, there will be no cost
for the other law enforcement
agencies to participate in the
training. This is one way for
Brattleboro’s department to
show gratitude for the many
ways that regional departments
help one another.
FOR PARTICIPATING first-line
recruit and patrol officers, Lt.
Witherbee’s training goal is for
them to understand that even
well-intentioned people have
biases — both conscious and
implicit.
She will share tools that assist
them in the recognition of these
biases and in creating an unbiased response in difficult situations. First-line supervisors will
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consistency in reporting — all
seemingly reasonable requests
of town officials and employees. We should all applaud his
willingness to tackle this and
take the heat.
Yet this effort has brought
much criticism from a vocal
few in town. Understandably,
family and friends of town employees are very concerned that
this examination of town expenses might result in cutbacks
that would reduce their incomes, never a welcome event.
But at the same time, asking the question — just what
should a town our size need
to pay for the staff, equipment
and services required to maintain our roads — seems like
the responsible thing to do.
The majority of residents so
far have not weighed in on the
matter, so we wonder how they
see it.
The town of Athens has
been facing the challenge of
ever increasing taxes over
the 23 years we’ve been residents here. It has been pointed
out by many that we have
one of the highest tax rates in
Windham County. Yet we have
little to show for it other than
paying for our schools, curbside trash removal, and the upkeep of our roads.
The property owners of
Athens are the only tax base to
draw from. Thus, our Town
Office fell into such disrepair
that it was at risk of having the
doors padlocked until a group
of volunteers took action. And
our beloved Brick Meeting
House is sorely in need of attention so that we can again
open the doors to the public
for its 200th anniversary in two
years.
Our hats are off to our road
crew for the work they have
done to get our roads into the
good condition they are in
now, and for their availability to get out and stay out until the job is done and the roads
are safe when winter weather
hits. But sometimes we have to
ask hard questions and be willing to grapple with the answers
that may come.
Therefore, we support
Mirante in this effort because
in doing so he is serving the
town as a whole, which is what
he was elected to do. We hope
that others in town will express
their support for this effort as
well.
And hopefully, those opinions will be shared at the next
Selectboard meeting on July
16, in a signed letter to the
Selectboard, or in a letter to the
editor, rather than anonymous
posters put up around town.
Sherry Maher and Tim
Stevenson
Athens
government functionally pays
25 percent of the health insurance costs of someone making
$120,000 per year but only 10
percent of the costs of someone
making $25,000 per year, or retirement contributions, or charitable contributions.
Legislatively, deductions
from W-2 taxable income (category 1) are the premium cake.
They apply to everyone with no
income limitation (but again at
the taxpayer’s marginal rates).
Middle school has no
The most significant are the
legal right to assign
deduction of employee consummer reading
tributions to health insurance
just received a letter from
coverage, reducing their taxable
Brattleboro Area Middle
income and retirement contriSchool teachers Julianne
butions similarly.
Eagan and Liz Scanlon statThe big boys (all in the priing, “Reading logs will be due
vate health-care corporate food
on the first day of eighth grade,
chain, and all in the investment
and, at that time, students will
services and management food
have an opportunity to share
chain) are the ones that bentheir summer reading expeefit from these very large fedrience with their peers. It is
eral subsidies. They are the
important for you and your stumost powerful of the powerful.
dent to know that these reading
They have all worked and spent
logs will be counted toward the
hard to achieve those federal
first quarter fall grades.”
subsidies.
Vermont law says: “A person
—Next are the “above the
having the control of a child
line” deductions, also in the
between the ages of six and 16
area of health care, retirement
years shall cause the child to
investment, but also colleges
attend a public school, an apand student loans. (Consider
proved or recognized indethat the student loan finance
pendent school, an approved
industry is immune from bad
education program, or a home
debts as well, as there is no
study program for the full
bankruptcy relief from student
number of days for which that
loans.) There are some limischool is held.”
tations to the deductibility of
BAMS is not in session durthese deductions, some driven
ing summer months. The forby income eligibility.
mer year closed, and the new
—Itemized deductions next.
one has not yet begun. During
Health expenditures again.
this time, kids are free from
State and local taxes. Home
school jurisdiction. You cannot
mortgage interest. Charitable
legally force students to read
contributions (religious,
and keep a log between school
largely).
years as part of grades for the
In all cases, it is the taxpayer
coming year and penalize them
who determines how the fedwith lower grades if they don’t.
eral government will effectively
Summertime reading has
be spending taxpayers’ money,
high value, and I highly ennot the legislature. In the case
courage all kids do it. If you
AND FINALLY:
of charitable contributions, in
want students to read during
• A functional tax system is ef- which the majority of donations
this time, instead offer a nonfective at influencing socially pro- are to religious institutions, the
grade incentive upon return,
ductive decisions about money,
charitable contributions desuch as an ice-cream social or
time, resources. Is ours? That is a duction is in effect the govBAMS bucks.
very big question.
ernment funding the religious
Regardless, kids cannot be
If the tax law is however reinstitutions.
bullied with unjust threats if
garded as not the place to affect
Further, for all the arthey choose not to read during
personal behavior, then there is eas that the federal governthe small amount of time they
the possibility that the tax code ment has afforded preferential
have off between school years.
can be retained as simple and
tax provisions, there is a social
This needs to be corrected
structurally fair. But if the tax
downside.
immediately. Please promptly
law is regarded as the place to
For example, the mortgage
revise your plan and inform
affect personal and institutional interest deduction does not asBAMS families of how you’re
behavior, then the tax law will
sist low-income working people
fixing this error. Thank you.
inevitably be constructed ad
in getting into homes, as most
Brandy Brow
hoc, entirely losing sight of the are not eligible to itemize and
Vernon
design as a whole, and again
their tax-rate savings is only 10
grow unwieldy.
percent of mortgage interest. It
Currently, the largest social
does, however, have the actual
Selectboard member
“good” that the tax law encour- effect of increasing the price
should ask the
ages is long-term speculation
of homes generally, making it
tough questions
for gain. Whether that is in
more difficult for a family to
ecently, there have been
stocks, bonds, real estate, pripurchase a first home or to exnews stories and letters
vate homes, or closely held cor- pand to make room for a growto the editor in the local media
porations, the current tax law
ing family.
about the efforts of our newest
primarily rewards (punishes
The same is true for health
Selectboard member, Dennis
least) investment over work and care, housing, and higher eduMirante, and his attempt to
passive investment in pre-exist- cation costs. The deductions do
rein in town spending.
ing securities enormously over
not reduce the cost of those neMirante has asked for acsole proprietorship for service.
cessities (through the tax bencountability, transparency, and
If even investment in new
efits) so much as they increase
productive assets and efforts
the cost of those necessities in
were valued, new investment
the marketplace.
would possibly be taxed at
The conventional wisdom is
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currently.
legislatively off the table. Too
receive training in how to suPROVIDING THIS staff eduI believe that that is an utmany people believe that they
pervise and promote a fair and cation is an important part of
terly perverse preference,
do or believe they might benefit
impartial policing perspective.
Chief Fitzgerald’s larger comembodied in our law. It disfrom them (even though most
Identifying the appropriate
munity policing efforts.
courages work, discourages en- don’t).
supervisory response to biased
“In Brattleboro, our ultimate terprise for current income,
An advocate for the middle
policing can be challenging.
objective is to gain the confidiscourages investment in
class like Bernie Sanders cannot
Not only is biased behavior very dence and trust of the comenterprise.
be seen questioning the usefuldifficult to prove through the
munity,” he says. “We have a
The other major area that the ness of the mortgage interest
traditional complaint review
violent profession; if an offitax law encourages behavior of deduction, for example.
system but for officers whose
cer is involved in a violent sitone activity over another is in
There is a case to be made
biased behavior is not intenuation that is questioned, you
the deductions from taxable infor transforming all of the detional or malicious, disciplinary don’t want a feeling of concome that are allowed.
ductions offered to tax credaction would be inappropriate. spiracy or cover-up. The comThey include three types:
its, that are eligible at all at the
Since in many instances
munity needs to know that the
—Deductions from taxable
same rates. Now is the time
there will only be indications
officer will be held accountable income that reduce W-2 taxto pursue good design rather
and not proof, it will be impor- and the investigation will run its able income.
than appealing populist featant to convey when and how
course.
For all three types of deduc- tures. There is a wheel to be resupervisors can intervene to
“That’s where I want to be.
tions, the federal government
invented. Taxpayers need law
stop what appears to be inapTo get there, we have to accept rewards the behavior of the af- that is understandable, that is
propriate conduct while keepwe have biases; we also have to fluent more than it does the be- consistently and easily enforceing in mind the ambiguous
have frequent conversations in havior of the working poor, in
able, that encourages work over
nature of the evidence as well as the community that take place
the form of the government
speculation.
the sensitive nature of the issue. on a regular basis. We are mak- subsidizing at the taxpayer’s
Are you up for it, Bernie?
Supervisors who have partic- ing time in our day to meet the marginal tax rate.
Or, are we looking at four
ipated in past trainings report
community and get out of our
For example, the federal
more years of “small ball”?
acquiring new skills for identicruisers.”
fying when bias might be manVarious community policing
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• Monthly Coffee with a Cop at the Boys & Girls Club
and at Brattleboro Union
in Ferguson, Baltimore, North
about this behavior.
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of retirement savings, while
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value of his or her retirement
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• Wednesday, July 15, 2015 D3
MILESTONES
Births, deaths, and news of people from Windham County
College news
• Kather ine Hambleton
of Wilmington graduated from
Tufts University with a B.S. in
biopsychology.
• The following local students
recently graduated Cum Laude
from the University of Rhode
Island: Dustin O. Powell of
Westminster received a B.S. in
Landscape Architecture and
Joseph M. Sawyer Shaw of
Brattleboro received a B.A. in
Film Media.
• Conor Madison of
Londonderry has earned
Highest Honors, while Kelsey
Patterson of Brattleboro has
earned Honors during the spring
2015 semester at the University
of New Hampshire.
Obituaries
• Dr. Dudley
Moore Baker,
83, formerly of
Dummerston,
Died July 2 in
Bennington.
Husband of the
late Geraldine
“Gerry” Feyrer Baker. Father
of Christopher Baker Sr.
and his wife, Josephine of
Ipswich, Mass.; David Baker
of Alexandria, Va.; Catherine
Baker and her husband, Richard
Feldman, of Seattle, Wash.;
Michael Baker of Waipahu,
Hawaii, and Stephanie Baker
and her husband, Cameron
Bowie of London, UK .
Brother of Stephen Baker of
Brattleboro and Dennis Baker
and his sister-in-law, Deborah
Baker, of Dummerston. Born
in Brattleboro, the son of
the late James and Beatrice
(Massey) Baker, he grew up in
Dummerston and took great
pride in being a seventh generation Vermonter. As a young
man, he worked on the family
farm and helped at the family
store. He attended the Choate
School, Williams College, and
the University of Vermont
Medical School, where he met
his future wife. He and Gerry
were married in 1955 and enjoyed 54 years of marriage until her death in 2009. He did his
training in orthopedic surgery
at Boston Children’s Hospital
and Massachusetts General
Hospital and served several years
as a lieutenant commander on
the orthopedic staff of the U.S.
Naval Hospital in San Diego. He
moved to Bennington in 1964
and had a successful orthopedic
practice there for 32 years. He
was active in the Bennington
community. In the 1960s and
1970s, he revived the Mount
Anthony chapter of the Jaycees
and was elected as a Selectboard
member. He served on the Board
of Trustees of the Bennington
Museum for 20 years, assisting
with fundraising and shepherding the museum through two
executive director searches. In
1984, he received the General
Stark Society Award for his outstanding service to the museum.
He had a wide range of interests and a big circle of friends.
He and Gerry loved playing
golf at the Taconic Golf Club
in Williamstown, Mass. He was
an especially proud Williams
College alumnus and treasured
his lifelong friendships with fellow alums. He enjoyed working in his garden and took great
delight in hosting a rhododendron party in his backyard each
`mind, one could often find him
in his reading chair with a stack
of newspapers, medical journals,
history books, and biographies.
After his retirement, he audited history classes at Williams
College and wrote over a dozen
opinion columns that were published in local newspapers. His
wit, dry humor, and storytelling prowess will be remembered dearly by all who knew
him. MEMORIAL INFORMATION:
A funeral Mass will be held at
St. Michael’s Roman Catholic
Church in Brattleboro on Friday,
July 24, at 11 a.m. Committal
rites and burial with full military honors will follow in the
Baker family lot in St. Michael’s
Parish Cemetery. Donations
to the Bennington Museum,
75 Main St., Bennington, VT
05201. Atamaniuk Funeral
Home of Brattleboro is in charge
of arrangements.
• Br ian M. Burke, 70, of
North Walpole, N.H. Died July
9 at the VA Medical Center in
White River Junction. Husband
of Joanne (Morris) Burke for 21
years. Stepfather of Michael,
Eric, and Constance Clark, all
of Bellows Falls, and Ronda
Morris of Saxtons River. Brother
of the late Dale Burke. Born
in Bellows Falls, the son of
the late Edward and Elizabeth
(Condon) Burke. He attended
St. Charles School, graduated from Bellows Falls High
School, and earned an accounting degree from Northampton
(Mass.) Commercial College.
He worked for W.T. Grant,
Jones & Lamson, the Grafton
Cheese Factory, Unified Data,
and also worked as a bartender
in area clubs. He was a member
of the Elks, the Polish American
Club, and the American Legion,
all in Bellows Falls. He was
an avid sports fan and was a
Pee Wee Football coach for 16
years. ME MOR I A L I N FOR M ATION : A funeral service will be
held on Wednesday, July 15, at
2 p.m., at Fenton & Hennessey
Funeral Home in Bellows Falls.
Burial will follow the service
in St. Charles Cemetery in
Westminster.
• Norma
D o r o t h y
( L a c e y )
Gagnon, 94,
of Brattleboro,
formerly of
Hillsboro, N.H..
Died July 4 at
Thompson House in Brattleboro.
Wife of the late Raymond
Gagnon. Mother of Richard N.
Gagnon and his wife, Jennifer;
Deborah Gagnon Ronzano and
the late Denise Gagnon. This
extraordinary woman will be
missed by all who knew her.
MEMOR I A L I N FOR M ATION : A
funeral service will be held on
Saturday, July 25, at 10 a.m.in
St. Mary’s Church in Hillsboro.
Burial will follow in St. Charles
Cemetery in Hillsboro. A lunch
and reminiscence to follow at the
American Legion in Hillsboro.
Donations to Hillsboro District
Food Pantry, 7 Church St,
Hillsboro, NH 03244, or the
Thompson House, 80 Maple St.,
Brattleboro, VT, 05301.
• Joy c e L o u i s e G ay, 8 4 ,
of North Westminster. Died
July 4 following a struggle with
cancer. Wife of Robert L. Gay
Jr. for 68 years. Mother of
Sandra Gaspardino of North
Walpole, N.H., Robert Gay III
of Springfield, Vt., Daniel Gay
of Saxtons River, and John Gay
of Underhill Center. Sister of
Lillian Turner, Loretta Grover,
and the late Pauline Gibbs,
Barbara Willard, Thelma Lake,
Marjorie Schroeder, and Vernon
and Richard Horton. Also survived by 13 grandchildren and
19 great-grandchildren. Born in
Randolph, the daughter of the
late Hattie Parker and Henry
Locke, she moved to Saxtons
River in 1942. She got married in
1947 and raised her children in
Saxtons River initially, and later
in North Westminster. She dedicated herself to her family and
there will be a significant void in
the lives of those who knew her.
She treasured time with family,
enjoyed writing poetry, having
back yard get-togethers, playing Bingo, and taking trips to
casinos with family and friends.
She was very passionate about
the Pittsburgh Steelers and
Boston Red Sox. MEMOR I A L
INFORMATION: A private burial
will be held at the convenience
of the family. Donations to the
American Cancer Society or
to Share Southern Vermont
(sharesv.net).
• Hector R. Greve, 89, of
Vernon. Died July 9 at Vernon
Green Nursing Home. Husband
of the late Daisy Imhoff for
48 years. Father of William
C. Greve and Phyllis Newton
and her husband, David, all
of Vernon. Sister of Phyllis
Schramm of Park Ridge, N.J.
Born in Teaneck, N.J., the son
of the late Charles and Marion
(Campbell) Greve, he attended
Westwood High School in
New Jersey and then the Casey
Jones School of Aeronautics
in Newark, N.J. He served his
country in World War II in the
U.S. Marine Corps in the Sixth
Division. He was awarded a
Purple Heart for wounds received in action during the invasion of Okinawa. He and his
family moved to Bernardston,
Mass., in 1969 from Hillsdale,
N.J. He was a former member
of the Westwood Reformed
Church, then the Emerson Bible
Church and Northfield Baptist
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Church and served as deacon,
Sunday School teacher, youth
director, and sang in the choir
in both of the latter churches. He
served on the board of the former Christian Heritage School in
Brattleboro. He was employed by
the State of Massachusetts as an
elevator inspector. He was very
active in serving others, taking
people to doctors appointments,
grocery shopping, and served
with Meals on Wheels in Vernon
for several years. MEMOR I A L
INFOR MATION : A funeral service will be held Saturday, July
18, at 10 a.m., at the Advent
Christian Church, 4554 Ft.
Bridgman Rd. Vernon. Burial
will follow in Center Cemetery
in Bernardston. Calling hours
will be Friday July 17, from
6 to 8 p.m., at the Kidder
Funeral Home, 1 Parker Ave.
Northfield. Donations to Advent
Christian Homes, 61 Greenway
Dr. Vernon, VT 05354, or the
Northfield Baptist Church, 87
Main St. Northfield, MA 01306.
• Joseph Leland Johnston,
7 0 , of Walla Walla, Wash.
Died April 11. Son of the late
Marsha (Gale) and Leland
Johnston. Brother of Gail
Clodius of Walla Walla, and the
late Mary Chapman. Born in
Brattleboro, he grew up in the
Brattleboro area and lived in
West Chesterfield and Hinsdale,
N.H., and Dummerston before he moved west to MiltonFreewater, Ore. and the Walla
Walla area. He attended
Hinsdale High School and graduated in 1964. He then joined
the Army and was stationed in
Germany. He returned to the
Brattleboro area and worked
as a cement finisher with his father. Later, he became an independent painting contractor and
did this until sidelined by heartrelated health issues. He had a
dry sense of humor and could
break the ice at any function he
attended. He loved classic and
antique automobiles and owned
several over the years. He was
a warm and giving person who
would help others. MEMORIAL
I N FOR M AT ION : A memorial
service was held July 11 at the
West Townshend Seventh-day
Adventist Church. Donations
to your local Humane Society.
the late Maurice Leland and
Esther Mather Brown, he grew
up in Connecticut but also
spent much of his time growing up in the green mountains
of Vermont, where he made
his home in Athens years later.
Each new chapter of his life
brought a new abode, moving
from Vermont to Michigan to
Texas to Mississippi, back to
Texas and finally in Providence
for his final farewell. He was an
artisan in wood, leather, and
stained glass, but he was mostly a
master of the art of telling a good
tale. He had a strong work ethic
and a heart of gold. He shared
his smile with all he knew and
lived a full life, rich with friends
and family from coast to coast.
celebration of his life will be held
at a date to be announced.
• Gary H. Lucier, 80, of Eagle
Mills, N.Y. Died July 7. Husband
of the late Gail Mackey Lucier.
Father of Christine Brimmer of
Vernon, Sharon Frazee, and her
husband, Brad, of Speigletown,
N.Y.; David Lucier and his
wife, Jane, of Denver, Colo.,
and James Lucier and his wife,
Amanda, of Wynantskill, N.Y.
Brother of Paul Lucier, and his
wife, Mary Alice, of Pittstown,
N.Y.; D. Bruce Lucier and his
wife, Peggy, of Gainesville, Fla.;
and the late G. Wayne Lucier.
Born in Troy, N.Y., son of the
late Henry W. Lucier and Edith
M. Connally Lucier, he served
in the Air Force from 1955 to
1958. He worked as a self-employed fire investigator for many
years. He loved old cars and
traveling with his wife. He was
a very proud father and grandfather. His grandchildren were
his biggest joy. MEMORIAL INFOR MATION : A graveside service was held July 9 at St. Agnes
Cemetery in Memands, N.Y.
• Persis Gilbert Stillson, 98,
of Brattleboro. Died June 18 at
Thompson House in Brattleboro,
after a short illness. Wife of the
late Robert Stillson. Mother of
Hollie Bowen of Brattleboro
and Dick Stillson of Manchester
Center. Sister of Walter Gilbert
of Forty Fort, Pa., and the late
Pauline French. The oldest child
of the late Walter and Charlotte
(Crawford) Gilbert, she attended
the North Hartland School and
was proud of attending and graduating from the Lyndon Institute
in Lyndonville. She attended
many reunions at LI, the most
recent being her 75th in 2009.
She was the first in her family
to attend college (Stoneleigh in
Rye, N.H.) After graduation, she
worked for the State of Vermont
in old age assistance, covering
much of southern Vermont.
She had tales of driving over the
Green Mountains when many
state roads were little more than
dirt or gravel, and commuting
by train from Bellows Falls to
Rutland due to wartime gas rationing. After his discharge from
the Army at the end of World
War II, she married Mr. Stillson
in 1946 in Hartland, where they
lived, worked, and raised their
family. Her last job before retirement in 1982 was as Hartland’s
Town Clerk, a job she held for 19
years. From 1965 onwards, she
was also the Town Treasurer.
She was a lifelong member of
the First Universalist Society of
Hartland. She enjoyed spending
the winters in Florida with her
husband where they spent many
hours exploring the “boonies.”
Her husband’s green thumb kept
both homes looking wonderful,
with many kinds of citrus fruit on
the table in Florida. She also enjoyed family, music, travel, and
reading her newspapers — the
last a habit she inherited from
her father. In addition to driving
trips with her husband and later
with her son, daughter or other
family members, she enjoyed a
wonderful trip to Ireland with
her sister-in-law and daughter.
graveside service is planned for
Sunday, Sept. 6, at 1 p.m., at the
Hartland Village Cemetery. A
gathering for family and friends
will follow directly afterwards at
the First Universalist Church in
Hartland. Donations to the First
Universalist Society of Hartland,
P.O. Box 75, Hartland Four
Corners, VT 05049. Graveside
arrangements are under the direction of Knight Funeral Home
in Windsor.
• Jan “Smiley” Leland, 65,
formerly of Athens. Died July 2
at his home in Providence, R.I.,
after a trying battle with cancer.
Husband of Leonila Leland.
Father of Fern Earthwood and
her husband, Christopher; April
Earthwood and her husband,
Seth; Hope (Dustin) Earthwood
and her husband, Dustin, Carley
Leland, Matthew Leland, and
the late Amber Leland. Brother
of Patience Trainor, Martha
Leland, and Scott Leland. Born
in Rochester, N.Y., the son of
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First Baptist Church Overflow Shelter, 190 Main St., Brattleboro
802-257-5415
Closed for the season.
Morningside Shelter, Brattleboro
Housing available only by pre-approval
802-257-0066 ext.
104 (24 hours)
8 a.m.–11 p.m.
COMMUNITY MEALS/FOOD SHELVES
Location
Phone
Day & Time
Agape Christian Fellowship, 30 Canal St., Brattleboro
802-257-4069
Soup kitchen: Sunday, 1:30–3 p.m.
Food pantry: Thursday, 6:30–8 p.m.
Brattleboro Drop-In Center, 60 South Main St., Brattleboro
802-257-5415
ext. 225
Monday–Friday, 8a.m.–5 p.m.
Tuesdays 10 a.m.–noon (seniors); 1–3 p.m. (everyone else)
Brattleboro Senior Meals, 207 Main St., Brattleboro
802-257-1236
Monday–Friday, noon–12:30 p.m. Breakfast Tuesdays and Fridays, 7:45 to
8:15 a.m. Over 60 years of age: $3.50 or by donation. All Others: $6
Senior Meals on Wheels, 207 Main St., Brattleboro
802-257-1236
Deliveries to those 60 and older who are “food insecure” and unable to
attend community meals.
Brigid’s Kitchen, 19 Walnut Street, Brattleboro
802-254-1112
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Loaves and Fishes, Centre Congregational, 193 Main St., Brattleboro
802-254-4730
Tuesday and Friday, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Grace’s Kitchen, First Baptist Church, Main Street, Brattleboro
802-254-9566
Wednesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Community breakfast, Sundays, 8:30–9:30 a.m.
Great Falls Community Kitchen,
Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Church St., Bellows Falls
802-463-3100
Monday 5 p.m., dinner.
Our Place Drop-In Center, 4 Island St., Bellows Falls
802-463-2217
Weekdays: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free breakfast (9–10:30 a.m.) and lunch (11:30–
12:30 a.m.). Food shelf.
Blue Door Community Suppers,
Christ’s Church, 24 Main St., Saxtons River
802-869-2582
Soup and bread, Wednesdays, 5:30–7 p.m. Blue door entrance off River
Street at back of building.
HIS Pantry, Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales,
238 West Main St., Bennington
802-442-3141
Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.;
Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon.
Joan’s Food Pantry, Asbury Methodist Church, Rt. 63, Chesterfield, N.H.
603-363-8348
Saturday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. or in case of emergency.
Deerfield Valley Food Pantry, 7 Church St., Wilmington
802-464-0148
Thursday preceding third Saturday of the month, 1-3 p.m.
Third Saturday of the month, 9-11 a.m.
Deerfield Valley Meals, Rt. 100, Jacksonville Muncipal Building,
Jacksonville
802-368-7567
Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays, noon.
Suggested donation, $5 ($3 for age 60 and older)
The Neighbor’s Pantry, Second Congregational Church UCC,
2051 N. Main St., Londonderry
802-824-6453
Food pantry, third Friday, 1–4 p.m.
Jamaica/Wardsboro Community Food Pantry, 135 Main St., Wardsboro
802-874-7234
Last Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8 p.m.
Putney Foodshelf, 10 Christian Square, Putney
802-387-2120
Tuesdays, 6-7 p.m.; Saturdays, 9-10 a.m.
Townshend Community Food Shelf,
The Townshend Church, Common Rd., Townshend
802-365-4348
Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m.
Guilford Cares Food Pantry , Broad Brook Grange, Guilford Center
Road, Guilford
802-579-1350
“We always have cereal, pasta, mac and cheese, tuna, canned vegetables,
soups, canned pasta, and peanut butter. We often have assorted frozen
meats, fresh produce, juice, yogurt, cheese and eggs.” Thursdays, 5–6 p.m.
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SECTION B
SPORTS
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 • page D4
page D4
Brattleboro Little League,
Babe Ruth teams begin playoffs
I
Brattleboro
t’s playoff time for the
Brattleboro Little League
All-Stars.
The 11-12-year-old
team is in the midst of a
best-of-seven series against
Bennington for the District
2 championship. The winner
plays in the state tournament.
The tournament began last
Saturday night in Bennington
as the hosts crushed
Brattleboro, 13-0.
For Bennington, the momentum they thought they had
going into Game 2 at South
Main Street Field on Sunday
vanished as Brattleboro came
back from a 5-1 deficit to win
7-6 in seven innings.
Pitcher Tyler Millerick got
the starting assignment for
Brattleboro. He gave up a run
in the first inning, but got it
back in the home half when he
doubled, took third on a passed
ball and scored on a double
steal.
Bennington’s slugging power
showed up in the second inning
as Quentin McIntyre hit a tworun homer to right. Tanner
King’s RBI single later in the
inning pushed the lead to 4-1.
A sacrifice fly in the third inning by Logan Sprague then
made it 5-1.
Brattleboro began to chip
at the lead in their half of the
third when Millerick reached
on an error and scored on another error.
Millerick was replaced on
the mound with two outs in
the fourth by Zinabu McNeice,
who finished the game and
eventually got the win thanks
to timely hitting and some
great defensive plays.
Brattleboro cut the gap to
5-4 in the fourth on RBI singles
by Millerick and catcher Shane
Cyr, and sent the game into extra innings when Alex Lier singled and eventually scored on a
wild pitch in the sixth inning to
tie the game.
Bennington had a golden
chance to win it in the seventh.
They had the bases loaded
with one out, but McIntyre hit
a grounder to McNeice, who
threw to Cyr to get an out at
home. Cyr then gunned the
ball to first to complete an inning-ending double play that
brought the crowd to its feet.
After a play like that, one
knew that the end was going to
come swiftly in the Brattleboro
seventh. And it did.
With one out, Shea Buckley
reached on an error on his infield hit. Heathcliff Slocombe
came up to the plate, and drove
a fastball to the center field
wall. Buckley raced around
the bases to score the winning run and touch off a wild
celebration.
“We didn’t want to go down
RANDOLPH T.
HOLHUT
Sports Roundup
2-0 in the series. We saw a totally different team today,”
said Brattleboro coach Mike
Brigham. “We’ve got guys that
are solid and have good attitudes. Every one of these guys
wanted to make the big play
and none of them got down
when we got behind.”
At press time, Game 3 was
scheduled for July 14 at South
Main Street Field. Game 4 is
set for Bennington on July 16
at 6 p.m., while Game 5 will be
in Brattleboro on July 18 at 4
p.m. Game 6, if necessary, will
be in Bennington at a to-be-determined date, and the site of
Game 7, if needed, will be decided by a coin flip.
• The Brattleboro 9-10
All Stars are also playing
Bennington, and Bennington
took a 2-0 lead in the best-offive series with an 8-3 win last
Saturday and a 15-3 win on
Sunday. Bennington hosts the
state 9-10 tournament, which
gives them a little extra motivation to win.
At press time, Game 3 was
scheduled to be played on July
14 in Bennington.
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT/THE COMMONS
Shea Buckley, right, celebrates after scoring the winning run in Brattleboro’s 7-6 win over Bennington
in Game 2 of their best-of-seven District 2 Little League playoff series on Sunday at South Main Street
Field. At left is Bennington catcher Logan Sprague.
Babe Ruth
roundup
Legion Baseball tournament.
Then Post 37 lost six games
• Brattleboro has teams in
in six days in an epic free fall
three state Babe Ruth Baseball that has left Bellows Falls’ playtournaments this year, and all
off hopes in tatters.
three began play last Saturday.
It all began on July 5, when
In the 13-15-year-old
Post 37 got swept by Rutland
tourney in St. Johnsbury,
Post 31 in a pair of six-inning
Brattleboro drew the host
defeats, 12-2 and 15-5, at St.
team, and beat them, 7-1, to
Peter’s Field.
advance to the championship
In the two games, Bellows
round. On Sunday, Brattleboro Falls used six pitchers and
clinched a spot in the chamcommitted nine errors in all.
pionship with a 17-0 win over
In game one, Rutland scored
Suburban in five innings.
seven runs in the fifth inning
At the 14-year-old tourney
to chase losing pitcher Colby
in St. Albans, Brattleboro faced Howe. Post 31 pitcher Jacob
Franklin County and lost, 13Godfrey scattered eight hits to
4. Brattleboro stayed alive in
pick up the win.
the double-elimination tournaThe second game was a
ment with a 7-3 win over St.
back-and-forth affair until
Johnsbury on Sunday.
Rutland scored five runs in the
Brattleboro had an early
sixth inning to clinch their secexit from the 13-year-old tour- ond mercy rule win of the day.
ney at S.D. Ireland Field in
Tommy Kenosh held Post 37
Burlington. In the first game,
to four hits to pick up the win.
Brattleboro took on the host
Nate Greene was the losing
team, Burlington, and lost, 6-4. pitcher.
Brattleboro then lost the elimiIt was then Brattleboro Post
nation bracket game against
5’s turn to take a pair of games
Franklin County, 12-5.
from Post 37.
On July 7, Post 5 rolled to
Legion roundup
a 14-2 win in five innings at
• On July 2, Bellows Falls
Tenney Field. Bellows Falls
Post 37 had a 3-3 record and
made seven errors and was unlooked like it was playing well
characteristically sloppy on deenough to qualify for a playfense. Brattleboro was happy
off spot in the state American
to take advantage, scoring
three runs in the first and seven
runs in the second to put the
game out of reach early. Dan
Richardson was the winning
pitcher for Post 5.
The skid continued on July 8
wiith a 7-3 loss to Brattleboro
Post 5 at Hadley Field.
Brattleboro’s George Atkins
was the winning pitcher, despite giving up three runs in the
first three innings. It was his
fourth complete game win of
the season.
Ed Shambo was the losing
pitcher, giving up five runs in
just 2 1/3 innings of work. In
all, Post 5 drew nine walks and
had two hit batsmen to go with
the seven hits they got off Post
37’s pitchers. The Post 37 defense was better, though, with
five double plays and only two
errors.
Chris Lasch had a total of
four hits in the two games for
Post 5.
The next day, it was Lakes
Region’s turn to beat up on
Bellows Falls, with a 13-3 sixinning win at Castleton.
This was an important game
for both teams, as they are
fighting for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Southern
Division. A Post 37 win would
have put them in control of
fourth place. Instead, Lakes
Region exited the game with a
3-6 record, while Post 37 fell
to 3-8.
Brady Illingworth was the
losing pitcher as Post 37 got
rocked for nine runs in the
third inning. Five hits, two
walks, and a pair of errors
turned a 3-2 lead for Post
37 into a 11-3 lead for Lakes
Region.
While this was happening,
Post 5 was in Rutland to take
on Post 31, and Brattleboro
hung on to win a 14-10 slugfest. Pitcher Kevin Tao made
the most of a rare opportunity
to hit for himself, and drove in
five runs with a pair of doubles
and a single.
Post 5 got 10 hits in all off a
pair of young Rutland pitchers,
Tommy Knosh and Reece de
Carlo. Kassidi Ramirez drove
in four runs, while Cam Wright
and Chris McAulliffe each had
two hits and scored five runs
between them.
On the mound, Tao had a
no-decision after walking eight
batters and hitting six more.
He lasted until the seventh,
when he was lifted for Miles
Hearon, who also couldn’t get
out of the inning. Richardson
had to get the final out to close
the book on this game.
Post 5 caught a break on July
10 when Randolph Post 9 forfeited their scheduled game
due to a lack of players. That
left Brattleboro at 11-1 and
in first place in the Southern
Division.
Unfortunately, Post 37 got
no relief last Friday as Rutland
ran the Bellows Falls losing
streak to six with a 5-0 victory
at Hubbard Field in Walpole,
N.H. Godfrey picked up his
second straight win over Post
37 with the complete game effort for Post 31.
Austin Stack also went
the distance, but was the losing pitcher for Post 37. He
got roughed up for three runs
in the first inning and never
recovered.
from Bellows Falls. The boys
game follows at 7:30 p.m.
Sam Molner of Twin Valley
is the lone Windham County
representative.
Earlier in the day, at
Castleton State College’s
Spartan Stadium, is the 41st
Lions Twin State Soccer Cup.
New Hampshire has a 1715-8 record in the boys’ games
and a 17-10-5 record in the
girls’ games. Vermont, however, has won the last three
boys’ games and played the
Granite Staters to a 2-2 draw in
last year’s girls’ game.
The girls’ game is at 4 p.m.,
with the boys’ game to follow at 6:30 p.m. There are
no Windham County players
on the Vermont rosters, but
the Green Mountain boys will
be coached by Twin Valley’s
Buddy Hayford.
Going the
Distance ride
breaks records
• More than 70 riders
raised nearly $50,000 for the
Brattleboro Boys & Girls Club
in the sixth annual “Going the
Distance” fundraising bike ride
on June 27.
That’s a record for both the
number of riders as well as the
amount raised for the club.
The event saw an eclectic group of riders that represented all ages and came from
Vermont, and all over the
Northeast, plus Ohio, Illinois,
and even Israel. Routes ranged
from 100, 60 or 40 miles, all
following the Connecticut
River Valley with friendly food
stops along the way.
The funds raised by this bike
ride are always an important
All-Star games
part of the Club’s operating
this weekend
budget. It became even more
• This Saturday is the day for important this year due to the
the two biggest all-star games
unexpected loss of the Club’s
between the recently graduated 15-seat passenger van.
high school seniors of Vermont
Event organizer and longagainst their counterparts from time board member Bob
New Hampshire.
Nassau said that there was no
The 33rd edition of the
money budgeted to replace this
Twin State Basketball Classic
van, so this year’s proceeds go
will be played at Essex High
toward the purchase of a new
School. The Granite Staters
van.
have a 19-13 edge in both the
boys’ and girls’ games.
At press time Tuesday night,
The girls will open the show Brattleboro 12-year-olds beat
Bennington again, 14-9, to take
Brattleboro’s Huxley Holcolmbe, center, was the Brattleboro’s Tyler Millerick slides safely into home at 6 p.m. Local players on
a 2-1 series lead. The Bennington
Game 2 hero after his double to center field scored after scoring on a base hit by Shane Cyr in the fourth the Vermont squad include
Little League 10-year-old team
Shea Buckley for a 7-6 walk-off win over Bennington inning of their Little League playoff game against Haley Buffum from Leland
& Gray and Chelsea Wilder
swept Brattleboro, 13-3.
Bennington on Sunday.
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