RE: “New group brings post-Newtown debate to Vermont” [News, June 19]:
We do not need or want gun control in Vermont, Ann Braden. If you do not like our state's gun laws, you are welcome to return to Connecticut.
And there is not a right to be free from fear. Your fears do not trump my rights.
And to Rep. Linda Waite-Simpson (D-Essex Junction): We beat your attacks on our rights back once, and we stand ready to do it again.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is entering its third year of the six year process for re-licensing five hydroelectric facilities along the Connecticut River, in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. TransCanada owns the Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon projects to the north; while FirstLight Hydro Generating Company owns the Turners Falls and Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage in Massachusetts. It is a complicated process along a river that shares interstate boundaries and involves New Hampshire's Connecticut River Valley Resource Commission...
There is a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail set in the days of the Black Plague. Eric Idle moves through a village calling, “Bring out your dead!” John Cleese appears, a body slung over his shoulder. As he negotiates offloading the corpse to Idle, the body interrupts: “I'm not dead!” Cleese replies, “Well, he will be soon.” We're used to people declaring our rural economies dead or dying. They tell us that manufacturing is gone. That young...
The Holy Week tradition of Tenebrae - or the Service of Shadows - originated in the early centuries of Christianity, combining the monastic services of both matins (after midnight) and lauds (at dawn). While in the past this mid–Holy Week service has been presented by adults of St. Michael's Episcopal Church and area musicians, this year all the Tenebrae texts will be read by St. Michael's teenagers: Julia Fedoruk, Tori MacKay, Tian Ragle, Zadie Olmstead, Julian Segal, and Asa Taggert.
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