All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
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...
Marlboro College announced on Aug. 15 that it had sold the former downtown home of its graduate center to Renaud Brothers, a Vernon-based construction firm. According to a news release, Renaud Brothers Construction agreed to a price of $3 million for the 42,000-square-foot office building. The property will now be known as 28 Vernon Street, named after the limited liability corporation that was formed to buy and manage the property. “We are pleased to be selling this valuable facility to...
Stone Church Arts brings Pete's Posse, a roots trio to heat up a winter's eve at the stone church on 20 Church St., on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Dillon Walsh of The Vermont Standard wrote, “For three people who initially weren't going to become a band, some things, like their chemistry together, were meant to be.” Pete's Posse is composed of Pete Sutherland (fiddle, piano, banjo and vocals), Oliver Scanlon (fiddle, mandolin, dobro, foot percussion and vocals) and...
On some level, I'm attracted to the notion of the Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting ad hoc Futures Committee - maybe because I see less and less of my future. But the minutes of this new committee are troubling. The truth is, most people's attention span can hardly make it to the next day, much less the next week or following year. Some of the comments like “apparent inertia of our system,” “to get at why the system does not work,”
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