These people must know their travel to New York City produces greenhouse gases as well as pollution.
These are the same people who fought to close down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, a non-emitting power source that displaced millions of tons of pollution.
They have the audacity to call themselves environmentalists? They are hypocrites.
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PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
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For the second straight year, the annual Representative Town Meeting will be a virtual affair. This year's meeting will be held Saturday, March 19, starting at 8:30 a.m., via Zoom. The proposed fiscal year 2023 General Fund budget includes total revenues and expenditures of $20,063,642, an increase of $379,651, or 1.9 percent, over the fiscal year 2022 budget. Notable cost decreases from FY22 to FY23 include a transfer to the Capital Fund (down $91,000), debt service payments (down $149,775), and...
Years ago my wife and I came to an unscientific conclusion: that, past the age of 27, one's basic personality rarely changes. And later, more specifically, we included attitudes: about race, gender, color, nationality, or religion. We still think that is true: who we are as a person, including our attitudes about different others, is quite fixed before we're 30. So, every time we read about “sensitivity” or “implicit bias” training (or have undergone such training ourselves), we wonder whether...
The Gallery at the Garden in downtown Brattleboro features two new exhibits for the month of November: The Golden Cage, an exhibit of photographs and interviews focused on Vermont's dairy farmers and migrant workers, and The Beauty of Relaxation, with creations by Maureen Mansfield. The gallery is located at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden, home of Strolling of the Heifers, at 157 Main St. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except during special events at...
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