Of course, there is the little issue of Richard Gagnon having the opportunity to serve out his sentence locally.
His victim, regrettably, will never have the opportunity to see his loved ones again.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
With more wins than any other late-model stock-car racer at Barre's Thunder Road Speedbowl, Gov. Phil Scott has plenty of experience with speed sports. But standing at the base of Brattleboro's Harris Hill over the weekend, he apologized for not taking a turn at Vermont's sole Olympic-size ski jump. “I fully intended to compete,” the 64-year-old Scott told a crowd of thousands upon Saturday's start of the annual Presidents Day weekend competition. “But unfortunately, I left my skis at home.”
The New England Center for Circus Arts has presented their reimagining of The Nutcracker since 2009. This year's production, The Flying Nut: 'Tis the Sea-son, in NECCA's custom-built circus trapezium, offers another high-flying celebration of circus joy - this time with a dose of midwinter tropical delight. Join the Stahlbaum family as their children receive a gift that starts them on a journey to strange and fascinating lands, where crabs do trapeze and flamingos dance on an oceanscape far from...
My husband, Richard Gottlieb, died Feb. 15, 2012 from multiple myeloma, with a secondary (more devastating) soft-tissues disease caused by that bone cancer: amyloidosis, which affected his swallowing mechanism and his heart. The damage to his heart proved fatal when his heart stopped on that day after Valentine's Day. When it was announced that strontium-90 was found in the wells at the Vermont Yankee plant, I did some research and found that this calcium-seeking toxin gets into the ground and...
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