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Selectboard agrees to restore $2,500 budget line to republish Brookfield history book

2955933 · January 7, 2025
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Members of the Heritage Commission described a plan to reprint and digitally republish a local history book; the Selectboard agreed to restore $2,500 to the Heritage Commission budget line to pay for digitization and reprinting services.

The Brookfield Selectboard agreed to restore $2,500 to the Heritage Commission budget line for work to republish the town history book originally printed in 1999. Heritage Commission members said the book was copyrighted by the original author and that in 2018 the town completed steps to transfer or secure necessary copyrights and to register for republication.

Heritage Commission members outlined the problem: existing paper copies are exhausted and printing vendors have been unwilling to reproduce the book without a digital master and updated…

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