Recent stories:
• Economic problems in southern Vermont - lack of jobs, etc.
• Opposition to Justice Center in Bellows Falls.
• Opposition to gas plant in Vernon.
• Opposition to wind power plant.
Gee, can there be a connection here?
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Federal officials have issued formal notification that Vermont Yankee emergency operations can be drastically scaled back due to a “significantly lower” risk of radiological accidents at the shutdown Vernon plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Dec. 10 approval of plant owner Entergy's requested license amendment means that the plant's 10-mile emergency planning zone will disappear next year, as will millions in state and municipal funding that goes with it. The NRC action also paves the way for the next big round...
Sandglass Theater's Winter Sunshine series continues the 12th season of puppet shows with Milo the Magnificent by puppeteering duo Alex & Olmsted on Saturday, March 2, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Milo the Magnificent is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. Using stunningly innovative puppetry, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks that don't always go as planned. According to a news release, Alex & Olmsted “unmask the tricks of magic, revealing the true magic of...
Now that I'm no longer a regular reporter at this newspaper, it's probably OK for me to admit this in public: One of my favorite assignments was interviewing Lester Dunklee. Oh, but I sure was intimidated. (Not that that stopped me, of course.) I moved to Brattleboro in 1994. About a year later, I got a job slinging coffee at Mocha Joe's. One afternoon, I was working with former owner Ellen Tucker-Capy, and she said she had to run an...
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