🌱 How will BMH’s new financial shake-up affect local healthcare?

Good day Brattleboro! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How will BMH’s new financial shake-up affect local healthcare?
• Do Edward Heights and Lawton Drive residents need to boil water now?
• Why a Brattleboro man was tracked by K-9 and drone

Also on today's calendar: Brattleboro Senior Meal and 1 more event.

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Not as cold, with a high of 31 and low of 17 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
• Wednesday: Not as cold with some sun, temps: high: 41, low: 22.
• Thursday: Intervals of clouds and sun, with a high of 39 and low of 35 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Chief financial officer of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital departs (reformer.com) — Leadership is shifting again at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital as Chief Financial Officer Laura Bruno departs and interim financial leaders step in while the hospital faces serious budget shortfalls. Regulators have questioned BMH’s solvency, and looming changes to drug pricing rules and state law could deepen projected multimillion‑dollar losses, raising stakes for the hospital’s long‑term stability and local patient care.
   

• Boil Water Notice issued for Edward Heights and Lawton Drive in Brattleboro (reformer.com) — If you live on Edward Heights or Lawton Drive in Brattleboro, you’re being asked to boil all water for drinking, cooking, ice, and brushing teeth after a water main break. The town says there’s no sign of contamination but is acting out of caution while lab tests are completed, and residents should keep boiling water until officials formally lift the notice.
   

• Brattleboro Man Arrested After Fleeing Traffic Stop, Crashing Car in Hillsboro (mykeenenow.com) — A 45-year-old Brattleboro man was arrested in Hillsboro, New Hampshire after allegedly fleeing a traffic stop, crashing on West Main Street, and hiding in the woods before being found by a police K-9 and drone. He faces multiple driving and drug charges, had outstanding warrants from Vermont and Hinsdale, and is being held pending a court appearance.
   

📸 Around Brattleboro

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Brattleboro

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday December 18

• Death-Over-Drinks: A Die-A-Logue (BRATTLEBORO, VT)
  Saxtons Distillery, 155 Chickering Dr, Brattleboro
  6:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday December 18

• BUHS Winter Recital
  BUHS auditorium
  6:30 pm

Tuesday December 23

• Brattleboro Senior Meal
  Gibson Aiken Center , 207 Main St , Brattleboro
  12:00 pm

Wednesday December 31

• New Years Eve Concerts (times: tbd)
  Brattleboro Music Center , 72 Blanche Moyse Wy , Brattleboro
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
  Meeting Room A , 224 Main Street , Brattleboro
  1:30 pm

Thursday December 18

• Guilford Cares Food Weekly Food Pantry
  Broad Brook Community Center , 3940 Guilford Center Rd , Guilford
  3:00 pm
• BUHS Winter Recital
  BUHS auditorium
  6:30 pm

Friday December 19

• Halifax Community Meal
  Halifax Town Clerk , 246 Branch Rd , West Halifax
  12:00 pm
• Teen Movie Night!
  Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room , 224 Main Street , Brattleboro
  6:30 pm

Saturday December 20

• Kids Fishing Club
  Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room , 224 Main Street , Brattleboro
  11:00 am
• Holiday Cookie Swap — Broad Brook Community Center
  Broad Brook Community Center , 3940 Guilford Center Rd , Guilford
  1:00 pm
• Brattleboro in Stitches
  Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room , 224 Main Street , Brattleboro
  1:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Dummerston

• Superintendent evaluation policy not satisfactory for teachers union (reformer.com)

Putney

• Next Stage Arts hosts Winter Solstice celebration and Community Sing on Dec. 21 (reformer.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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