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Cheaper for country to create dry casks for waste

By
Glenn Carroll
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 — Issue 201

RE: “Getting the area to prepare for long-term storage” [News, April 24]:

Thank you for running this lengthy, informative article on spent nuclear fuel. The price tag for moving the nation's highly radioactive spent fuel out of the pools into safer, longer term dry casks would be $7 billion, Robert Alvarez has stated elsewhere, and the nuclear industry estimates are even cheaper: $3.5 billion.

This compares quite favorably with the $8.3 billion the U.S. has offered to put up to build new reactors with private industry, and it is a positive idea to allow nuclear waste funds to ensure safer storage of the nation's nuclear-waste inventory.

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Stepping up and pulling together

By
Fric Spruyt

Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...

Teachers missed out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

By
Amy Moore

BRATTLEBORO-The recent eclipse that Vermonters were able to experience was beyond breathtaking. My husband and...

Another choice for end-of-life autonomy

By
Burt Tepfer

PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...

Short-term rentals, short-term gains

By
Holly Bartel

BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...

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Planning Commission gets a earful from public on draft of new Town Plan

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With comments addressing issues of zoning changes and economic development issues, members of the public had their chance at Monday's Planning Commission meeting to comment on the town plan in progress - “an entirely new plan” that will replace the town's 2008 document, according to a Planning Commission report. The Town Plan serves as a guide to boards and commissions, like the Selectboard or Development Review Board, when reviewing development proposals on the proposed 2012 town plan. Brattleboro's current town...

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Still searching for democracy at Putney Food Co-op

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015 — Issue 292

As a writer, social-justice activist, and outspoken critical thinker, I'm no stranger to controversy, but the controversy generated over the shift in governance at the Putney Food Co-op has been a little stranger than most. On the one side fly accusations of being “misinformed” and “alarmist”; on the other, wry comments about “drinking the Kool-Aid” and the “Whole-Food-ization” of co-ops hint at “Stepfordized” paradigms co-opting progressive ideals. All this over a food co-operative!? But the more I investigate, the more...

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Honoring a literary pioneer

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 — Issue 531

On Thursday, Oct. 17, at 11 a.m., the West Brattleboro Association, in conjunction with the Brattleboro Words Project and Brattleboro Literary Festival, will unveil a state Historic Marker commemorating acclaimed local author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and four historic schools that stood near the current site of today's Academy School. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was repeatedly voted the most popular female author during the 19th century. Best known for her short stories, she published over 250 in her lifetime. Freeman...

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