Marlboro News

Three Windham County projects have received funding through the Vermont Community Change Program, according to Gov.

In this week's issue of the magazine, I write about Marlboro Music , a legendary classical-music institution that brings together younger and older players in pursuit of ideal chamber-music performances.

Residents from the Marlboro area can attend a rally Tuesday to call for changes in the property-tax assessment system.

In April, Vermont legislators decided to eliminate one probate court judge in Windham County in a round of cutbacks designed to save the state government money.

On June 11, at 6 p.m. in the BUHS auditorium, Brattleboro's Students for Renew, a student organization raising funds and providing education to aid the relief and recovery of unexploded landmines and ordinance in Vietnam, is presenting a Celebration of Project Renew.

Thursday: Athens/Grafton Joint Contract School District, Athens School District and Grafton School District, special school board meeting, 3:45 p.m., at the Cricketers in Grafton.

Brattleboro-West Arts, a group of artists and craftspeople in West Brattleboro, Marlboro and the Whetstone Brook corridor, have formed an association to help boost and sustain their businesses, and create a supportive and congenial community among themselves.

Stephen Knapp's innovative lightpaintings have been called "the first new art medium of the 21st century." Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Knapp will give a talk titled "Lightpaintings: An Artist's Journey" at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, where several of his works are currently on exhibit.

Wednesday: Town Plan Advisory Group, 4 p.m., Marlboro Tech College, Room 2NE, Vernon Street.

Thursday: Athens/Grafton Joint Contract School District, Athens School District, and Grafton School District, School Board meeting, 6:30 p.m., at Grafton Elementary School.

Tuesday: Brattleboro Town School Board, special meeting, 11 a.m., in Windham Southeast Supervisory Union Central Office Conference Room, 53 Green St., purpose: One Percent Application Review/Action. -- Windham Southeast Supervisory Union Finance Committee, 4:45 p.m., in the WSESU Central Office Conference Room, 53 Green St.

Tuesday: Brattleboro Union High School Finance Committee, 7:30 a.m., in the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union Central Office Conference Room, 53 Green St.

SHELBURNE -- Winemakers Ken and Gail Albert couldn't sell glasses of their Shelburne Vineyard wine at parties in their tasting room.

Hudson Valley school districts will shed more than 300 jobs next school year to keep tax-levy increases low in budget proposals that go before voters May 19.

Thursday: Charter Revision Commission, 6:30 p.m., Hanna Cosman Meeting Room, Ste.

Vermont Electric Power Company is asking the public to review and give feedback on its 2009 Vermont Long Range Transmission Plan-Public Review Draft during a series of public forums.

If you're planning to attend Thursday night's Public Service Board meeting at 7 at Marlboro College, you might want to leave your compost at home.

The Vermont Public Service Board will be in Marlboro on Thursday to take public input on its upcoming decision on whether to issue a certificate of public good to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon.

The Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury has acquired the personal papers and book collection of Marlboro folk singer Margaret MacArthur .

Three Brattleboro Union High School students were able to see first-hand how Sweden deals with environmental issues when they traveled there with a group of Marlboro graduate students in December.