The Brandon Selectboard convened for its regular meeting on Monday evening. For the first time in months, the town budget was not on the agenda, having passed on its third public vote last week.

“Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic” is a 2015 original play by New York–based playwright Matt Cox.

While on a seek-and-find mission for Loso gravestones in St. Dominic’s Cemetery in Proctor [Lost Names, Part 24], I photographed two other stones that propelled me to dig deeper into the identity of two women whose families belonged among other lost French-Canadian names.

After three votes and several months of heated debate, Brandon voters approved a budget for Fiscal Year 2025.