BRATTLEBORO — Shela Linton has always been awesome for Brattleboro. She wants to empower other people.
In light of this kind of commitment, activism becomes clear as humanitarianism.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
A look at the three regional nuclear plants Entergy will be decommissioning: Vermont Yankee Location: Vernon Year opened: 1972 Entergy purchased: 2002 Shutdown: 2014 Power output: 605 megawatts Employment: About 300; about 550 prior to shutdown Decommissioning trust fund: $664.56 million Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Location: Plymouth, Mass. Year opened: 1972 Entergy purchased: 1999 Shutdown: No later than 2019 Power output: 688 megawatts Employment: 650 Decommissioning trust fund: $896.42 million James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant Location: Scriba, N.Y. Year...
Vermont Theatre Company brings Christmas cheer to downtown Brattleboro once more with its second annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, adapted from Dickens's original story and directed by James Gelter. It is a highly faithful adaptation which pulls text and dialogue directly from Dickens' original novella. “There are countless stage and film adaptations of A Christmas Carol,” says Gelter, “Each with its own spin or variation on the story. And while Heaven knows I love The Muppets version,
Imagine you are walking near a river and you see a river otter playing in the water, twisting and turning. It is a few feet long, maybe 2 to 3 feet. Sleek and dark, tumbling over others of its kind. It looks like it's dancing! Believe it or not, these otters are in danger of getting trapped. Hi, my name is Luca, and I am a fifth grader at Academy School. We have been studying Vermont river otters for about...
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