BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
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...
Good morning, afternoon, or evening to you, depending on what time of day you've picked up the paper! After our unseasonable early snowfall last week, we're flipping the cards with some unseasonable warmth that will visit our environs for Wednesday and Thursday. Shortly thereafter, a disturbance and associated cold front will push through southern Vermont by Friday morning, dropping us squarely into Autumn once again. To the details! For Wednesday, high pressure will dominate, and we'll enjoy a partly sunny,
Don't judge Gurf Morlix only by the company he keeps, even if it does provide a fine starting point: eminent musical artists such as Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Warren Zevon, Ian McLagan, Patty Griffin, Robert Earl Keen, Michael Penn, Buddy Miller, Mary Gauthier, Tom Russell, Jim Lauderdale, and Slaid Cleaves. Instead, listen to “Gurf Morlix Finds the Present Tense” (2013), his sixth solo album, and you'll understand why his blue-ribbon associations as a producer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist have led...
Unfortunately, the cost to provide emergency shelter and protection in a different facility while preparing a permanent home for the fire department is guaranteed to cost the town of Brattleboro more than any previous estimate. Scrambling is extraordinarily expensive in time, energy, and resources. The Brattleboro Fire Department is willing to place premium price tags on every life firefighters rescue 24/7. In the last five years, downtown Brattleboro has been literally saved more than once by the courageous men in...
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