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🌱 How you can help bring Saffron’s Afghan flavors back to Brattleboro

Hi there, Brattleboro! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How you can help bring Saffron’s Afghan flavors back to Brattleboro
  • What the Windham Southeast board decided about gender freedom and bullying
  • How Brattleboro’s 69a became a lifeline for unhoused neighbors

Also on today's calendar: Slam Poetry Hip Hop Spoken Word / Beat Poetry & Social Justice and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 69 and low of 52 degrees.
  • Saturday: Cloudy, temps: high: 63, low: 47.
  • Sunday: Cloudy, showers; cooler, with a high of 54 and low of 33 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Saving Saffron: New refugee-created restaurant needs community support (reformer.com) — A new Afghan refugee-owned restaurant, Saffron, has been forced to close its Brattleboro location at the Colonial Motel after utilities were shut off in a landlord dispute, leaving 15 employees in limbo. The owners, who invested their savings to bring Afghan flavors to town, are keeping staff paid while raising funds on GoFundMe to relocate and reopen in Brattleboro.
   

2. Windham Southeast School District Board Mtg 4/14/26 (brattleborotv.org) — Brattleboro-area residents can see what the Windham Southeast School District Board handled this week, from student climate data to new policies on gender freedom and bullying. The meeting also outlined how a vacated board seat will be filled and previewed an April 25 community forum at BUHS on Act 73 and other legislative changes affecting local schools.
   

3. Brattleboro art center provides community for those facing homelessness (wcax.com) — A Brattleboro art space called 69a is offering people facing homelessness a welcoming place to create art while also getting daily meals, hygiene supplies, and a safe bathroom. Open Wednesday through Sunday and run by people with lived experience of homelessness, the center is free to use and hopes to expand hours and space if community support grows.
   

4. 'Dear to my heart': Jessica Green was drawn to Hinsdale — and education (reformer.com) — A longtime Hinsdale resident with deep personal and professional ties to Brattleboro has shifted from running local travel agencies on Eliot Street and beyond to serving as a special education case manager and Hinsdale Select Board member. Her students now gain hands-on experience at Brattleboro organizations like the Humane Society and the Reformer, while she continues to celebrate the close connection between quieter Hinsdale and bustling Brattleboro across the new bridge.
   

5. Local youth showcase skills at 4‑H Regional Communications Day (reformer.com) — Brattleboro hosted the Windham and Windsor County 4-H Regional Communications Day at the UVM Extension office, where 17 local youth presented projects ranging from horse care to bread baking. Participants from several area clubs earned ribbons, gained public speaking experience, and prepared for upcoming statewide and regional 4-H competitions.
   

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  • I have been using this new expandable hose for my evening plant watering and it is so much easier to carry around than my old heavy rubber one.
    The different spray settings are so handy for everything from rinsing the patio to giving my flowers a soft drink. (Nextdoor Brattleboro)
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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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