Brattleboro plan for new low-income housing suffers setback

Whetstone Brook flows by Melrose Terrace in West Brattleboro. Housing officials want to relocate the remaining residents of Melrose, which was damaged during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Photo by Mike Faher/VTDigger
BRATTLEBORO – It may take longer than expected to move low-income residents out of a floodplain in West Brattleboro.
Brattleboro Housing Partnerships has scrapped a plan, announced earlier this year, to build a 20- to 25-unit apartment complex on roughly 3 acres near the botto