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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...
After nearly two centuries here, the Windham County Sheriff's Office will move to Brattleboro. Windham County has bought the former Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee Joint Information Center at 185 Old Ferry Rd., which was once the world headquarters of Famolare Shoes, to house the Sheriff's Office and the county courthouse. Assistant Judges Patricia Duff and Lamont Barnett closed the deal for $500,000 on the property, valued by the town at $810,000, on Feb. 14. The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant...
Yup, a hard rain fell. And some more hard rain's a-gonna fall. And then some more. A year after Tropical Storm (née Hurricane) Irene hit Vermont and changed just about everything, a few people were still arguing whether it was a once-in-a-10-year storm or a once-in-100-year storm. But most acknowledged this uneasy truth: we've entered the Era of Climate Change, and Irene might only be the beginning. A report by the Environment America Research and Policy Center called “Global Warming...
Rock River Players (RRP) launches its 2022–23 season with Oscar Wilde's satire, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nov. 4 to 13 at the Williamsville Hall on Dover Road. Directed by RRP founder/co-artistic director Annie Landenberger, Wilde's greatest hit is the second large-cast comedy classic offered by the RRP since the pandemic, following last year's sell out, The Front Page. “Though Wilde labelled it 'a trivial comedy for serious people,' Earnest is a pretty irreverent satire, a poke in the fleshy...
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