PUTNEY — So, we'll finally get VPR in Putney [“VPR station for Brattleboro will soon broadcast,” June 13]? Hallelujah!
I've always been able to get VPR in my cars, but not in the house. I hope it works.
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BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
The Police-Fire Facilities Project will return to the drawing board. Town Manager Peter Elwell said at the July 21 Selectboard meeting that he wanted architects to develop new concept plans for the Central Fire Station and Police Station. Plans for Station Two, the fire station in West Brattleboro, are okay to go. The board approved $7,500 from the operating budget to develop the new concept plans. Elwell added that he came before the board for approval because he thought the...
On Thursday, June 26, The Open Music Collective celebrates its fifth year with a reception and summer jazz concert featuring faculty and three student groups. In its five years, OMC has put on many concerts and workshops, including 10 semesters of ensemble classes including vocal, jazz, classical guitar, kids' composition, rock camps, and bluegrass. This also marks the offering of a fifth weeklong jazz intensive, taught this year by Harvey Diamond on piano, Claire Arenius on drums, Carl Clements on...
At his Feb. 17 press conference at the Vermont Statehouse, Andrew Fisk, executive director of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, made some vague claims about Vermont Yankee's warm water discharge affecting the shad population. I asked him two questions that any self-professed authority on local aquatic life should have answered easily. 1. “Are you familiar with the presence and function of Station 7 [Vermont Yankee's up-river monitoring station) and Station 3 (the down-river monitoring station]?” 2. “Do you know that...
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