Anyone who lives in a state such as Vermont, where there is minimal public transportation and everyone drives, and who opposes nuclear power is living in a dream world of misinformation and denial.
And they are hypocrites.
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...
Windham County's only daily passenger train, Amtrak's Vermonter, has not stopped in Brattleboro or Bellows Falls since March 26, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it may be weeks, if not months, before the train returns to the rails of Vermont. Neither Amtrak nor the Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT), the primary funder of the Vermonter, has given a specific date for the resumption of service of the daily train between St. Albans and Washington, D.C. Amtrak cut back the...
The Arts Council of Windham County (ACWC) has announced the grantees for this year's Brattleboro Town Arts Fund (TAF) program. Nine community-focused creative projects were selected from a competitive field of proposals received in this fourth year of the TAF program. According to a news release, TAF “promotes the development and presentation of creative projects that contribute positively to the greater community and to the vibrancy and diversity of Brattleboro's arts and cultural landscape. TAF projects explore social and quality-of-life...
I am thankful we have the school bus drivers we have. Every day they get up in the morning and come to work, always smiling, for the most part. (I mean, it's early-morning hours, and not everyone has had their coffee yet, right?) However, they go out to their buses and - kind of like Santa Claus at Christmas - they have a list and they check it twice to make sure the buses are in working order. By the...
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