RE: “On joy and justice” [Viewpoint, Sept. 4]:
I can assure Chad Simmons that neither Vermont Yankee employees nor their families will be dancing in the street or high-fiving anyone, today or “eventually.”
The reality of impending job losses is anything but fear-mongering in any VY household at the moment.
Perhaps it is Simmons' sense of reality that is skewed.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
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Good day to you, Windham County dwellers! After a veritable deluge yesterday due to our cold front swinging through the region and sweeping humid air seaward, we've got much nicer weather on the way! We can expect sunny and increasingly drier conditions to rule our roost from Wednesday through Saturday. After that point, we will be watching as low pressure looks to swing up the coast in a sort of winter-time pattern that may bring slightly cooler and rainy weather...
We hope that someday we can tell you the full story about why someone would take 1,500 copies of The Commons last week. Right now we have more questions than we do answers. Thanks to two eyewitnesses and security footage at a third location, this we do know: as afternoon turned to evening on Wednesday, July 1, two people - a tall, dark-haired man with a “strong brow,” accompanied by a young boy - shadowed our distribution efforts. They removed...
Brattleboro Music Center Artistic Advisors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson welcome two colleagues with thorough Vermont connections for a collaborative performance on Sunday, April 28, at 4 p.m. at the BMC. Husband and wife violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Gloria Chien join Laredo and Robinson for this special Chamber Music Series concert featuring two unassailable quartets for piano and strings. The two couples will present Quartet in E-flat Major by Mozart and Quartet in C minor by Gabriel Fauré. Kim...
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