Bob Audette

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Another one turned to dust

3 weeks ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

WEST DOVER — Most of Vermont's 1,100 or so dams are privately owned and no longer serve a purpose, with many of them filled with silt and boulders washed down from upstream. Just above Handle Road in West Dover, Jack's Brook tumbles under a walking bridge before flowing over a concrete dam built in 1913 to collect drinking water for a nearby home.
Another one turned to dust

3 weeks ago | benningtonbanner.com | Bob Audette

WEST DOVER — Most of Vermont's 1,100 or so dams are privately owned and no longer serve a purpose, with many of them filled with silt and boulders washed down from upstream. Just above Handle Road in West Dover, Jack's Brook tumbles under a walking bridge before flowing over a concrete dam built in 1913 to collect drinking water for a nearby home.
Western Avenue/Guilford Street to be focus of discussion on June 10

3 weeks ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Planning Department is hosting a public forum on Monday, June 10, starting at 6 p.m. in the Select Board Meeting Room to discuss just what should be done about one of the most problematic stretches of road in town — Western Avenue from Interstate 91 to its intersection with Guilford Street.
Microbiologist cares for 'The world's smallest worm farm' at Cotton Mill

3 weeks ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

BRATTLEBORO — Inside a small room at the entrance of the Cotton Mill building in Brattleboro worms are busy, quietly turning compost into nutrient rich castings that gardeners love to use to enrich their soil. "It's the world's smallest worm farm," said Jay Baade, a microbiologist who moved with his wife, Jessie, an actor, comic and writer, to Brattleboro 11 years ago. Stacked up on homemade racks in the small room are bins holding coconut coir, cardboard, and meal scraps from a local restaurant.
Staffing shortage results in postal deliver delays

4 weeks ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

BRATTLEBORO — Folks in and around town are experiencing delays in mail delivery, up to a week recently, due to staffing shortages at the United States Postal Service in Brattleboro. "I have received no postal mail delivery since last week," wrote George Carvill on social media. "We haven't had mail delivery since last Thursday," wrote Prudence Baird, who said her husband stopped by the post office where he learned mail might be delivered soon.
The flames of Burning Man come to Westmoreland

1 month ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

WESTMORELAND, N.H. — Burning Man made a visit to the hills over the Connecticut River during the Memorial Day Weekend in the form of a fire-breathing, tentacled, boggle-eyed mechanism standing nearly 28 feet tall. El Pulpo Magnífico, which has been described as a "demented windup toy," by its creator, Duane Flatmo, is a mobile kinetic sculpture with articulating legs, eyes, and mouths.
Former BF man gets 14 days in jail for assaulting a police officer

1 month ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

BRATTLEBORO — A man accused of assaulting a police officer with his vehicle was sentenced to eight to 12 months all suspended, with 14 days to serve. Matthew Saunders, 33, pleaded guilty to assault of a police officer and grossly negligent operation Friday afternoon, and was ordered to serve half of the 14 days right away, and the other half in September, minus two days for time served following his arrest in 2024.
Land use review board overturns Act 250 decision for Bent Apple Farm in Londonderry

1 month ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

LONDONDERRY — The State of Vermont Land Use Review Board has overturned a decision by the Act 250 district coordinator that required the owner of a bed and breakfast complex in Londonderry to file an Act 250 application before he does any work on his properties. A request for a jurisdictional opinion was filed in April 2024 by attorney Merrill Bent on behalf of a neighbor, Bret Williams, who contended Bent Apple's rental properties constituted a commercial use and needed an Act 250 permit.
Accused bank robber transferred to Vt. Dept. of Mental Health

1 month ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

BRATTLEBORO — A 41-year-old Brattleboro man accused of robbing TD Bank on Main Street in Brattleboro on Thursday was transferred into the custody of the Vermont Department of Mental Health following his arraignment in Windham Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Friday afternoon. "The court will a suspend bail at this time, while Mr. Tate is in the care and custody of the commissioner of the Department of Mental Health," Judge John Treadwell said of the suspect, Christopher A. Tate.
Accused bank robber in court today

1 month ago | reformer.com | Bob Audette

BRATTLEBORO — A 41-year-old Brattleboro man will be arraigned Friday afternoon, accused of robbing TD Bank on Main Street in Brattleboro. According to information from the Brattleboro Police Department, Christopher A. Tate robbed the bank at just before 3 p.m. on Thursday. After Tate allegedly robbed the bank, he got into a vehicle and left the scene. A Brattleboro Resource Assistance Team officer was on foot patrol on Flat Street and located the vehicle in the Preston Lot.

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