Terry Allen recently reported in In These Times on gun-drug runners carving a deep, two-way trench down the Northeast, leaving a toxic trail of violence, misery, and addiction. You can read her piece in the print edition of The Commons this week in Voices, where it appears with the kind permission of the magazine. To read it online: inthesetimes.com/article/18168/guns-heroin-vermont-new-york.
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BRATTLEBORO-The recent eclipse that Vermonters were able to experience was beyond breathtaking. My husband and...
PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
Here's a list of what towns in Windham County are doing on Green Up Day, and whom to contact if you want more information: • Athens: Lynn Morgan, 802-869-2227 or [email protected]. Leave full bags and large debris along roadsides. Routes may be worked on anytime through May 7. • Brattleboro: Brattleboro Subaru, 1234 Putney Rd., (bag pickup and drop-off); Robin Rieske, 802-275-7232 or [email protected] or Hilary Francis, 802-251-8157 or [email protected]. Bags available on Green Up Day from 8 a.m. to...
Point of clarification: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be holding a public meeting, not a public hearing. In a meeting, there is no test of truthfulness. In a hearing, everything the NRC says in under oath and on the record. NRC regulations require the agency to come hold this one public meeting on the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report. However, whenever NRC licensing actions involve nuclear reactors, as is the case at Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, an opportunity to file requests...
Visual artist and musician Roger Miller is bringing Surrealist Games to 118 Elliot for a return visit to Brattleboro. Two years ago, Miller presented the event at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, which allowed attendees to create art, not just look at it. The reaction from participants was overwhelmingly positive. Vaune Trachtman said she loved that it was “non-competitive fun. Everyone's a winner!” Rolf Parker described the evening as “awesome,” and the highlight for Ely Coughlin was “laughing so...
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