BRATTLEBORO — Great coverage of a terrific event! Thank you to the Brattleboro Chamber, and specifically to Kate O'Connor and Greg Lesch, for all of their hard work on the recent governor's debate!
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...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the...
Entergy has filed official notice of the next round of layoffs at Vermont Yankee, telling state and local officials that 97 positions will be cut May 5. That's a smaller number than the 150 layoffs that initially had been estimated. But a spokesman said that's only because employees have been leaving the Vernon plant, so overall staffing levels are lower than had been anticipated. After the May layoffs, administrators expect there to be roughly 150 staffers remaining at Vermont Yankee,
I thank all of you who voted for and approved our operating budget for the coming school year. For those who did not vote for the budget, I promise to do all I can so that our school earns your trust and confidence so that in the future you will feel compelled to support us. Besides their rigorous academics and participation in sports, theater, and arts, our students contribute to the community in numerous ways, from shoveling snow (not as...
Given that Susan Dedell is the director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir and Orchestra, it isn't too surprising that when she speaks about her “enduring and evolving first love,” she is referring not to some remarkable person from her past, but rather to a piece of choral music: Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem. “Brahms' German Requiem is music that is both triumphant and full of joy, even frisky at times, all unusual things for a requiem,” Dedell says. “There is...
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