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BRATTLEBORO â As information on the potential impact of breaking up the Windham Southeast School District is coming out, so is a lot of opposition.
On March 2, voters in the WSESD will be asked if their town should withdraw from the district. Theyâll also consider if their town should approve and ratify the withdrawal of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford and/or Putney from the district.
If a town votes no on the first article, it will remain part of WSESD. If a town votes no on the second article, it will prohibit other towns from withdrawing.
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Town Meeting Day is coming up in just over a week, and this year brings two simple-sounding but dramatic ballot articles for voters in Brattleboro, Putney, Dummerston, and Guilford: âShall the voters of the Town of.authorize the Town to withdraw from the Windham Southeast School District?â and âShall the voters of the Town of . conditionally approve and ratify the withdrawal of the [the other towns in the district] from the Windham Southeast School District, subject to the certification of results from the respective Town votes to withdraw on March 2, 2021?â
For all four towns, these articles are on the townâs Australian ballot, and voters can vote either in person or absentee; while Putney has already sent Town Meeting ballots to all registered voters, to encourage them to vote absentee, voters in Brattleboro, Dummerston and Guilford need to request an absentee ballot if they want one. Whether voters ch
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PHNOM PENH â Itâs been 40 years since W. Patrick Murphy graduated from Brattleboro Union High School and embarked upon his career in Foreign Service, but Brattleboro has never been far from his heart.
âIâve spent half my life overseas, in a dozen or so countries, with time in Washington as well, and it all started with the BUHS Swiss Exchange started by French teacher Maggie Cassidy,â said Murphy, the U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, during a Zoom interview with the Reformer.
Through the Swiss Exchange, many of Cassidyâs French students and their Swiss counterparts spent part of their school year in their host communities.
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BRATTLEBORO â In 2017, Jessica Callahan Gelter joined the Brattleboro Planning Commission as a way to give back to the community.
âAnd itâs been really wonderful,â she said. âI want to do more.â
Much of the commissionâs work is long term without impacts being seen right away, Gelter said. She hopes serving on the Select Board will provide opportunities to bring about more immediate effects.
âI guess Iâm feeling antsy amidst the pandemic,â she said, finding more time to get involved in local government.
Sheâs one of six candidates running for two one-year terms on the board in the March 2 election. Other candidates include incumbent Daniel Quipp, Evan Chadwick, Kurt Daims, Rikki Risatti and Jackson Stein. Gary Stroud dropped out of the race, citing a diagnosis of prostate cancer.