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Voices

VY pays for weather station

By
David Crawford
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 — Issue 327

This is to all the anti-Vermont Yankee people: What about the weather station they generously pay for on the two-way radio?

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An American birthday party

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Anita Rafael

Anita Rafael is a Wardsboro writer whose work has appeared in myriad newspapers and magazines,

Civics can lead to something greater: virtue

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Meg Mott

Meg Mott (megmott.com) is a professor emerita, former town moderator, and self-described Constitution Wrangler and...

Does Paul Revere belong in the Fourth of July parade?

By
Tim Stevenson

Tim Stevenson ([email protected]) is a community organizer with Post Oil Solutions. He is the author...

The case that redefined U.S. schools

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Bill Holiday

Bill Holiday, a retired veteran social studies teacher of 48 years, believes in exposing students...

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Kellie D'Elia-Laskin is a shining example of what true mettle really looks like. The widowed, single mom and entrepreneur was on the cusp of opening her new cannabis shop at 2022 North Main St., when a state of emergency was declared in Vermont as epic flooding engulfed Londonderry on July 10. All D'Elia-Laskin's hard work since she signed a lease on April 20 with Center Merrill for the old service station, where she planned to open Green Mountain Therapeutics, was...

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017 — Issue 407

New England Youth Theatre's Theatre Adventure presents: The Princess and The Goblin, May 17-19, at 10:30 a.m, at the West Village Meeting House, 29 South St. A special “sensory friendly” performance will be held on the May 17. The Theatre Adventure Wednesday Troupe brings to life this classic fairy tale, originally written in 1872 by George MacDonald and adapted by Carol Lawson in 1941, and NEYT's Theatre Adventure in 2011. An ever-present Great Great Grandmother, a doting nursemaid, a devoted...

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Postcarding: a small step to help elect candidates who reflect popular opinion

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You know what? There really was a vast right-wing conspiracy. I've watched it play out over my lifetime, and with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, now it's achieved one of its major goals. It would have been better had we prevented that, seeing as we vastly outnumber those who support the position taken by the court (many of the positions!), but we didn't. Too pure, too left, too lazy, not paying attention - it doesn't matter why. That's all...

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