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🌱 What does the scaled-back Rapid Accountability Docket mean for Brattleboro?

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In today's newsletter:

  • What does the scaled-back Rapid Accountability Docket mean for Brattleboro?
  • Which Brattleboro folk concerts are coming up in the next weeks?
  • Which Brattleboro roads will see lane closures and night work this week?

Also on today's calendar: Wooden Horse – A Tribute to America & Crosby, Stills , Nash and Young at the Shea Theater and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why was the skeleton lonely? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 67 and low of 35 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Mostly sunny and cooler, temps: high: 55, low: 22.
  • Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 55 and low of 33 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Rapid Accountability Docket in Windham Superior Court to stay on a reduced schedule (magic967.com) — Brattleboro residents should know the Rapid Accountability Docket at Windham Superior Court will continue, but now only one morning a week, after handling hundreds of cases and linking many defendants to services. Local officials, including Town Manager John Potter, say the program has strengthened Brattleboro’s public safety network, even as prosecutors and public defenders warn it strains already limited staff and doesn’t fully address homelessness or treatment gaps.
   

2. Folk Show Music and Dance Calendar 10.25.26 (nhpr.org) — Brattleboro music lovers have several folk and roots shows coming up, including The Barr Brothers at the Stone Church this Wednesday and Joe Jencks at All Souls Church on November 7. The calendar also highlights December’s Windborne Singers “Music of Midwinter” concert at the Brattleboro Music Center, plus many nearby events in Putney, Bellows Falls, Burlington, and across New England.
   

3. AOT Road Construction Report for the week of October 26 (vermontbiz.com) — Drivers in Brattleboro should expect weekday lane closures and alternating traffic on U.S. 5 for bridge maintenance, plus night and evening work with single-lane closures on VT 9 and U.S. 5 near I-91 Exits 2 and 3. The statewide report details many other Vermont projects, but Brattleboro motorists especially need to plan for delays and wet paint zones this week.
   

4. Writing During Genocide: Gaza, Collective Trauma, and the Stages of Destruction (iputney.com) — Brattleboro neighbors are invited to a deep conversation on Gaza, genocide, and collective trauma with Palestinian scholar Dr. Ayman Nijim on Friday, October 30, at 118 Elliot Street. Hosted by Windham World Affairs Council with local justice-focused partners, the evening will explore resilience, community-wide impacts of violence, and what it means to bear witness while atrocities continue.
   

5. Eleanor J. Farnham (recorder.com) — Longtime area resident Eleanor J. Farnham, who once worked in Brattleboro and lived here after marrying her husband James, has died at age 90. Her life centered on caring for family, with four children, three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren mourning her loss. A private graveside service will be held in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why was the skeleton lonely?" — He had no body to play with. (Thank you Margie S. for sending it in!)
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