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Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
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The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
Denise Germon, absentee town clerk and treasurer, has resigned. At the Jan. 31 regular Selectboard meeting, Germon's attorney, Fletcher Proctor, submitted her letter of resignation to Interim Town Manager Chip Stearns, Administrative Assistant Karen Astley, and the three Selectboard members, Steve Hed, Scott Henry, and Josh Laughlin. The Selectboard unanimously voted to accept her resignation. Laughlin thanked Germon for “her service to the town of many years,” and added, “we wish her all the best.” Laughlin read Germon's letter into...
A few additions to Emma Cotton's informative review of the ongoing decommissioning of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon are in order. Scott State, CEO of NorthStar, the company decommissioning the plant, suggests that the spent fuel at the plant will remain there "as it stands today [...] for some time." "Some time" is of course a relative term, given Mr. State's concession that "in perpetuity is how long that fuel can stay there." This raises the question:
Three students from Windham County will travel to the Barre Opera House on March 9 to compete in the 2016 Vermont Poetry Out Loud State Competition. These young people will meet students from other Vermont high schools to vie for the State Championship in the national poetry recitation competition. The state winner will compete in the National Competition in Washington, D.C., in May. “The Poetry Out Loud program not only connects students to an incredibly diverse literary heritage, it fosters...
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