DUMMERSTON — RE: The premature and shortsighted closing of Vermont Yankee:
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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After a June announcement that Springfield Medical Care Systems (SMCS) and Springfield Hospital have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the big question is what will happen next for these regional health-care providers. “Well, we can't keep doing the same thing that we've done, because that's the definition of insanity,” said Mike Halstead, interim chief executive officer of Springfield Hospital. That's why Halstead says that, in order to stay financially viable, SMCS and the hospital plan to join another health-care...
Marlboro Music, Vermont's cherished chamber music retreat, closes its 67th season with three fascinating programs on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 11 and 12, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 13, at 2:30 p.m., on the campus of Marlboro College, with most of the resident artists joining conductor Leon Fleisher in performances of Stravinsky's delightful “Pulcinella Suite” on Friday and Mozart's “Linz Symphony” on Sunday. Friday's program also includes Resident Composer Brett Dean's “Winter Songs” for tenor and woodwind quintet; George...
There is one significant issue that Tim Wessel did not address in his recent letter (where he wrote that "if you are on the streets demanding that Israel lay down arms and you are not asking the same of Hamas, you are siding with terrorists, and I question your moral compass"). This issue is also not generally addressed in other discussions about Palestine and Israel, so I'd like to do so here: I don't like fighting, and I wish people...
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