WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
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...
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...
The most common misconception people have about River Gallery School, located in the Wilder Building in the heart of downtown Brattleboro, is that it is a private institution. So believes Donna C. Hawes, the Development Coordinator/Administrator at the School, who wants to make clear that it is a nonprofit dedicated to serving the community of Southern Vermont. “Too many people are afraid to come through our doors,” she says. “They won't take any classes or workshops because they believe they...
Beginning on June 9, which happens to be International Children's Day, and culminating on June 16, Fathers Day, a Week of Action was held at the “emergency influx facility for migrant youth” in Homestead, Fla. The administration's inhumane treatment of asylum seekers coming across the southern border includes isolating children younger than 18 years old and placing them in “detention centers.” The largest such center is a for-profit facility at the former Homestead Air Force Base. Since it is on...
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