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To the editor: This is a copy of a letter I sent to Brattleboro Select Board member Daniel Quipp regarding an article in the Reformer ( Brattleboro invests in Cow Power, commits to new green energy fund, March 7) about a recent Select Board meeting.
Daniel: You were quoted in the paper as wanting to increase some kind of climate change fund from $30,000 to $70,000. Is this true? What is this program designed to do? And why should it go to 70k?
Once again I m beginning to get aggravated by this demand that the taxpayers of Brattleboro continue to fund these special projects concerning climate change. I don t think this is the proper way to do this and it seems like an end run around the state legislature (and the federal government) from doing its job. No market based solutions seem to get much traction so now certain minority groups are going to just grab money from the tax base. And I m especially concerned because we person
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Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
People head to the polls during a modified Town Meeting Day in Vermont on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
People head to the polls during a modified Town Meeting Day in Vermont on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
People head to the polls during a modified Town Meeting Day in Vermont on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
BRATTLEBORO â Ian Goodnow had quite the first year to serve on the Select Board.
âI donât think I could have chosen a more challenging time to join the Brattleboro Select Board but Iâm grateful I ran and was elected,â he said. âCOVID-19, the global pandemic, created a number of new challenges that we had to face as a town and having an opportunity to be part of the leadership to address those challenges was a real honor and Iâm really grateful for the opportunity.â
While COVID-19 will continue to be something to grapple with on many levels, Goodnow said heâs filled with âa deep sense of optimismâ moving forward as the pandemic has forced creative thinking on issues and led to more people being engaged in town government. He said he feels the town can âcapitalize on that energyâ and âwe can do really great things in Brattleboro.â
Article 3 on the March 2 ballot asks Brattleboro voters to decide whether the town charter should be amended to allow a greater degree of self-governance to be exercised by
Joe Gunther, Inc: Archer Mayor and the Bookstore
News Highlights: Joe Gunther, Inc: Archer Mayor and the Bookstore
Photo: Archer Mayor during his interview for this article. Photos by Randolph T. Holhut.
by Joyce Marcel, Vermont Business Magazine Vermont tends to get lyrical about its writers. From Rudyard Kipling to Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis to Galway Kinnell, Pearl Buck to Katherine Paterson, these and many, many other writers have found a quiet, safe and green haven here, even as their words circulate around the world. But if you think writing is just an art form, then you should talk to Archer Mayor.