Thanks so much for publishing such an excellent piece on Dave Shapiro's sad and untimely passing [“How could this happen?”, The Commons, May 4].
I really appreciated that you took the time to look at this in depth.
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
When Jack Boyle arrived at Vermont Yankee in December 2012 to take the engineering director's job, he believed the Vernon nuclear plant would be operating for years to come. Just nine months later, though, Entergy announced that the facility would cease producing power at the end of 2014. And now, 17 months after shutdown, Boyle has become Vermont Yankee's top administrator - the man in charge of the site's challenging decommissioning process. The 40-year industry veteran acknowledges that post-shutdown operations...
“I like solving problems,” says Vermont businessman Robert Johnson. His latest conundrum is what to do with a white elephant of a church in downtown Brattleboro. Under Johnson's initiative, the First Baptist Church on Main Street is undergoing a major renovation that will transform the site into Epsilon Spires, a center for the arts that will be opening later this year. “With its Estey organ, double balcony, and exemplary acoustics, this historic church building has served the town as a...
The need to protect the trees and playground in Crowell Park, inadequate parking, lack of public toilets, lack of access to drinking water, concerns for pedestrian safety, graffiti, trash, and noise (vs. sound): these issues all speak to a much larger one: the quality of life in a residential neighborhood. This might not be such a pressing issue if the park space in question was larger than 2.1 acres. (The park land is actually over 4 acres, but most of...
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