YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
Voices

VY will be missed

By
John Dougherty
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 — Issue 204

RE: “As Vermont moves to green power, VY won't be missed” [Letters, May 8]:

The fallacy of the VY-won't-be-missed response is simply that it will be missed.

No amount of wind or solar power will replace Vermont Yankee. Wind and solar are intermittent power sources, while Vermont Yankee is a base-load plant. If one understands how the grid functions, it is obvious that these power sources are not interchangeable.

If VY shuts down, fossil fuel power sources will replace VY, not wind and solar. If VY shuts down, Vermont will further contribute to carbon emission, global warming, and hurt the local economy.

Let's take a reasonable approach and support renewable power sources and VY in a coordinated and logical way.

Voices

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...

Subscribe to the newsletter for weekly updates

Other Great Stories in The Commons

News

Nonprofit looks to take over Austine campus

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 — Issue 315

The Winston Prouty Center for Child Development has outgrown its building located off of Guilford Street. The school that supports early childhood education and family programs is looking to other nonprofits to share ownership of the former Austine School and Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing's (VCDHH) approximately 200-acre campus. Winston Prouty Executive Director Chloe Learey told The Commons this spring that the center had planned to break ground on a $2 million dollar expansion at its...

Read More

Voices

Winston Prouty Center raises $25,000

By
Chloe Learey
Sunday, July 30, 2023 — Issue 724

I would like to thank the community for supporting The Winston Prouty Center's annual Par for the Cause fundraiser. This year we raised over $25,000! We are grateful to the more than 100 businesses and individuals who supported our fundraiser by placing an ad in the event program, donating products and services to our raffle, or contributing to our family-fun experience. This year the event drew more than 150 people to our campus for a morning of pretend play, bouncy...

Read More

Arts

Concert benefits Tanzanian school

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 — Issue 410

Gogi Abroad will depart this July with a team of high school students to experience the Maasai culture in Longido, Tanzania. While in Longido, one of the team's projects will be assisting at the MELOC School. The acronym MELOC in Maasai means “something sweet,” according to a news release. Although mainstream students will also attend, the school's specialty will be working with the blind and deaf children in the area. The Gogi group will work directly with the children, build...

Read More

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1212, Brattleboro, VT 05302

Physical address:
139 Main St, Suites 601A and 604, Brattleboro, VT 05302

888-511-5150
[email protected]

Categories

More Info

The Commons is published by Vermont Independent Media, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.