WESTMINSTER WEST — If you are about to toss an apple core or a banana peel out your car window, please take care to toss it a good distance from the edge of the road.
The discovery of such a find might be a welcome thing for a foraging rodent or bird. But if it's too close to the road, it can put the feasting creature at risk from passing vehicles.
Throw it far!
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PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
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With the passing of two agenda items at the Sept. 18 regular Selectboard meeting, the replacement of the Hinsdale Bridge - a project over 40 years in the making - inches ever closer. The bridge - which consists of two bridges, separated by an island - that connects Brattleboro to Hinsdale was identified as having serious deficiencies by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) in 1977. Since then, every few years the project seems to build up steam again,
Democratic candidate Sue Minter has advanced policy initiatives that will require raising more taxes on struggling Vermonters while worsening our affordability crisis, which her Republican challenger, Phil Scott, was the first candidate to champion. Scott will eliminate annual budget deficits without raising taxes. In the last six years of the Democratic majority in the legislature, Vermont has run up deficits of $700 million and passed those costs onto Vermonters with a series of new annual taxes. Vermont simply cannot afford...
A Tale of The Tontlawald, an evening of entertainment featuring music by The Bluebird Orchestra, film shorts, and a marionette show, will be presented at the Cotton Mill in Room 357. The first half of the evening will feature The Bluebird Orchestra playing some of their original songs and improvising music to two very short silent films: “Princess Nicotine” and “Artistic Creation” from the turn of the (last) century. After a brief intermission, The Bluebird Theater will present “A Tale...
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