BRATTLEBORO — This is a great story and tribute to Marty Rancourt. I can say I've known him since he was born.
Good luck to him as he opens a new door.
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...
In less than a week, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon will stop generating power and shut down after over four decades. By the afternoon of Dec. 22, Senior Nuclear Training Instructor Brian Stewart had completed the last training in the control room simulator - an exact replica of the actual control room at the nuclear station - at the Entergy headquarters, a few miles north of the plant on Old Ferry Road. He stood in the 1960s-era...
Woodcarver Michelle Holzapfel is one of the artists featured in the upcoming episode of Craft in America on April 21, at 10 p.m., on PBS. “She's the first and, thus far, only Vermont artist to be included in the series,” says her husband, David Holzapfel, with whom she shares a studio and gallery located in Marlboro. After its premiere airing, this, as well as all the other episodes of the Peabody Award-winning series, can be viewed online at PBS.org or...
Much has been said about Jimmy Carter in the outpouring of grief that came with the announcement of his death on Dec. 29, 2024 at the age of 100. Most striking is the overwhelming consensus that the 39th president of the United States was so rare in character. The primary lesson we should take from President Carter's life is not that he should be celebrated for standing so far apart from others in how he aligned his faith and his...
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