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BRATTLEBORO â The Brattleboro Union High School Music Department is once again offering the Merry Mulch Christmas tree collection service to Brattleboro residents. This program, in its 30th year, is endorsed by the Vermont Department of Agriculture as well as the New Hampshire/Vermont Christmas Tree Association.
For a $10 donation, members of the band and chorus will transport undecorated trees from homes to a community garden in West Brattleboro where they will be chipped into mulch to be used by the gardeners. Since the town does not offer curbside pick-up of trees, the service saves residents the hassle of transporting their own trees.
To the editor:
I admit it â Southern Vermont has its quirky souls and eccentricities, but if there is any doubt whatsoever that we live in a caring community of extraordinarily generous souls who have risen to the challenges presented by the pandemic, one has only to listen to the administratorsâ reports at the WSESD board meeting of Dec. 16 (available on BCTV).
Leaders from every school in the district lauded the many individuals and organizations that donated time, talent and resources to feed and educate our students and to create the safest learning environments possible. There are far too many to recount in this letter, but I was particularly inspired by Principal Steve Perrinâs praise of Brattleboro Union High School students. âI want to thank our students,â he said. âOur teenagers are great . They are masking. They are keeping social distancing. They are reminding others to mask. Do they forget? Sure, but when we remind them they say, âYep.
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This commentary celebrating Beverly Cleary aired on Vermont Public Radio in 1993, when I was teaching at Brattleboro Union High School and my younger daughter was six years old. Now, Beverly Cleary is 104 years old, and her books are timeless: my daughter is a teacher and reads those books to her own daughter.
When I was in elementary school in the 1950s, I read and re-read Beverly Clearyâs books for children. A solitary child living in the country, I loved her characters on Klickitat Street: Henry Huggins and his mongrel dog Ribsy, his neighbor Beatrice Quimby, whom everyone called Beezus, and especially Beezusâs little sister, Ramona â Ramona who rode her tricycle at full speed right into the coffee table holding Beezusâs and Henryâs checker game, Ramona who got bubblegum in her hair and had to take the scissors to it.
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BRATTLEBORO â Green Street School shifted to remote learning until next month after getting a report of one positive test for COVID-19 and one probable case in the elementary school.
On Thursday, Principal Mark Speno received confirmation of a person in the school community testing positive for COVID-19. He said it was the first one of the school year.
âStudents and staff in presence of that classroom during that school day were sent home as soon as possible,â he said.
Parents were informed of the situation then Julia Duke, school nurse, and Speno had a conference call with the Vermont Department of Health, which helped with additional contact tracing. They decided to go remote on Friday and have a deep clean done on the building before continuing with the mix of in-person and remote learning Monday.
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BRATTLEBORO â Facilitators hired by the town for the Community Safety Review process are preparing to bring forward their findings before making their recommendations.
On Monday, the Community Safety Review Committee spent some time looking at Brattleboroâs fiscal year 2022 general fund budget proposed by town staff and currently being reviewed by the Select Board at meetings. The spending plan will be considered for approval at annual Representative Town Meeting in March.
âThis is just an orientation,â Shea Witzberger, one of the two facilitators, said at the committee meeting held remotely Monday. âNext week weâre going to share a whole lot more with you about the substance of what we learned by listening and combing through statistics and data.â