Six New Art Exhibits Debut Downtown This Weekend
Brattleboro, VT · November 13, 2026
Cold rain is drumming against the windowpanes today, but the weekend ahead is packed with enough theater, gallery openings, and live music to shake off November gray.
The Lead
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital interim chief Dave Sanville laid out the medical center’s road map to financial sustainability this week, outlining a cautious path forward following a turbulent year of budget deficits. With the hospital’s endangered birthing center officially secured, BMH is leaning on a $4 million endowment gift from local manufacturer Willy Buhlmann and state transformation grant funding to stabilize operations. As one of the area’s largest employers with 600 staff members, the hospital serves as an indispensable economic driver alongside its clinical mission. State regulators at the Green Mountain Care Board granted BMH extra runway this fall to refine its fiscal strategy, focusing on outpatient scheduling, coding improvements, and regional healthcare partnerships rather than slashing vital community services. The hospital’s revised operating benchmark report goes before state overseers later this month.
Local Pulse
Selectboard Endorses Scaled-Back Putney Road Redesign Roads State engineers will add a shared-use path and improve corridor intersections while avoiding extensive property impacts along Route 5.
Human Services Committee Closes Candidate Search City Hall Selectboard members plan to review resident applications next week before appointing advisors to guide upcoming community grant distribution.
Library Launches Haiku Workshops Ahead of Festival Community Adult writers can practice short-form poetry this month as downtown storefronts prepare for the annual winter miniature stroll.
Today's Outlook
- High 43°F · Low 34°F — Rain (88% chance of precipitation)
- Grab your waterproof boots and umbrella before heading out into the steady chill.
What's On Around Town
Today
Putney Community Supper Next Stage Arts (15 Kimball Hill), Putney, 5:30 PM · Free Landmark College hosts a shared warm meal open to everyone.
Assassins the Musical Next Stage Arts (15 Kimball Hill), Putney, 7:30 PM · $30 Wild Goose Players present Stephen Sondheim’s dark, sharp Broadway classic.
Dead Ahead Stone Church (210 Main St), 8:00 PM · Paid Improvisational Grateful Dead and soul grooves light up the sanctuary stage.
Tomorrow
- Kids Night Out New England Center for Circus Arts (10 Town Crier Dr), 5:00–9:00 PM · $30–80
- Opening Party: Six New Exhibits Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (10 Vernon St), 5:00–7:00 PM · Free
- Thao with Al Olender Stone Church (210 Main St), 8:00 PM · Paid
Sunday
- Art Talk: Hayal Pozanti & Sarah Freeman Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (10 Vernon St), 4:00–5:30 PM
- Knorrwood Stone Church (210 Main St), 7:00 PM · Paid
Spotlight & Story
- Harris Hill Ski Jump
- In 1922, Dartmouth Outing Club founder and local native Fred Harris built a timber launch off a steep cow pasture with his own savings. A century later, it remains New England's only 90-meter Olympic-caliber jump, still drawing winter tailgaters and clanging cowbells.
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