BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].
Once again, The Commons hits the nail on the head! What a great bunch of news people you are.
Heidi Mario is an artist. BRATTLEBORO-Call this "A Tale of Two Shoe Stores." There has...
SOUTH NEWFANE-Thank you to all the first responders who came to the scene of our...
Editor's note: Given the not-unreasonable concern for her safety, we've withheld the letter writer's name.
JAMAICA-Listening to Rescue Inc. dispatch recently, I heard a paramedic asking if law enforcement would...
On Oct. 10, a giant yellow machine called a "concrete cracker" turned a building at the former Vermont Yankee nuclear plant into rubble. Workers have been deconstructing the building, which formerly housed a steam turbine, for several weeks. It was one component of the boiling-water reactor system that, at one time, produced 35% of the state's electric needs. The nuclear plant operated from 1972 until 2014, when its then-owner, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, closed the plant after it was no...
Insurance offered through Vermont's Health Benefit Exchange is not part of Vermont's future single-payer system. Required by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“Obamacare”), the exchange sells private plans for those needing insurance. Also, Catamount Health and Vermont Health Access Program (VHAP) will cease and Medicaid will be offered in their place to cover those needing insurance in 2014, three years before a single-payer system begins. The exchange will not save money. It perpetuates America's profitable...
On Saturday, Feb. 21, musician and educator Ben Carr is hosting two ukulele workshops followed by a solo ukulele performance at the Open Music Collective, located at 74 Cotton Mill Hill, Studio A-335. The Beginner Ukulele Workshop is from noon to 2 p.m. If you always wanted to learn how to play the uke but didn't know where to begin, this is your chance. Topics covered include posture, basic chords, strumming, singing, and a bit of uke history. Workshop cost...
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