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TOWNSHEND â A new name is being proposed for Negro Brook, which flows down Bald Mountain in Townshend State Park.
At a remote meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday, the Vermont Board of Libraries will be resuming a public hearing on renaming it Susanna Toby Brook, after an early Black settler and longtime resident of Townshend who died in 1855 and whose husband fought in the Revolutionary War in place of his slaveholderâs son. Log-in information can be found at libraries.vermont.gov/about us/board.
West River Mutual Aid and the West River Community Project sent out messages encouraging local residents to participate in the meeting.
PUTNEY Police are investigating a second incident in which the Black Lives Matter mural painted on the roadway in front of Putney Central School was defaced with tire marks.
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BRATTLEBORO â Wichie Artu hopes the success of vaccination clinics reaching racial groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19 is used as a model in future health initiatives and infrastructure.
âI plan to be in conversations with different racial justice organizations in Vermont including in those places that usually donât have advocacy,â said Artu, who is second vice president of the Windham County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. âItâs just got to keep going.â
Work towards a more equitable health care system doesnât stop after the COVID-19 pandemic, Artu said. He noted the Vermont Legislature is considering a bill that would create the Office of Health Equity.