Certainly, Vermont should not be adding a dirty-fossil-fuel plant! How about a solar facility with non-toxic aqueous battery storage instead?
Keep moving forward. Don't backslide!
BRATTLEBORO-When I first heard of the horrific terrorist attacks on the music festival and peaceful...
BRATTLEBORO-I am deeply disturbed by this letter by a group of local Jews who call...
BRATTLEBORO-The current state-sponsored denial of all food, water, medical supplies, and humanitarian assistance to the...
BRATTLEBORO-An open letter to the Brattleboro town manager: "Pride goeth before the fall." -Proverbs 16:18.
Marlboro College's undergraduate and graduate campuses are only about a dozen miles apart. But when college President Kevin Quigley was interviewing for that job in early 2015, he noticed a much greater divide. “It was quite striking to me to think of two programs, part of the same institution, but there seemed to be this enormous cultural gap,” Quigley recalled. Marlboro administrators hope that's about to change, as the two campuses are scheduled to officially unite this weekend. They say...
Potent teen voices ripple through Listen Up!, an original music theater piece currently touring Vermont, created by multi-award-winning director and producer Bess O'Brien and a company of teen and adult collaborators. “Just because you knew me doesn't mean I'm still the same,” they sing in collaboratively written lyrics. “Just because I'm born and raised doesn't mean I'm going to stay./Just because I'm gay doesn't mean I want to dance./I never had a dad but that don't mean I'm not a...
On May 13, Gleyber Torres, an infielder for the New York Yankees was confirmed in a press release from his team to have contracted COVID-19. The very next day, while outside of a Domino's Pizza that was still takeout only, I was accosted by a man who was angry about the continued use of masks. If he had been voicing his opinion in an online forum or a letter to the editor, I would have sympathized. But I know there...
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