The Brandon Selectboard, the Brandon Budget Committee, and the Brandon town managers held a public meeting on Thursday, January 30 at the Brandon Town Hall to outline the proposed 2025-2026 town budget for Brandon voters in advance of Town Meeting, which will be held this year on Monday, March 3. 

At a Brandon Selectboard meeting last year, a resident set off a minor firestorm when they said Brandon was becoming “Disneyland.” The comment was meant to be critical of Brandon’s emphasis on fun activities, but many Brandonites took it as a compliment.

This round of alliterative surnames started with recollections of my late Mayflower Society friend, “Mrs. Cecil Goodheart,” née Helen Clara Churchill, who lived at 61 Park Street in Brandon.

The Hill Cemetery in Sudbury stands on a bluff just north of the town green, on the west side of Route 30. It’s a breathtaking location, with sweeping westward views of the Champlain Valley and the Adirondacks beyond.