BELLOWS FALLS — Bellows Falls has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to art and culture, and I'm proud to be a small part of that.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Entergy wants additional disposal options for Vermont Yankee's contaminated water, but federal regulators say they don't yet know enough about the liquid to approve that request. Citing “uncertainty in the concentration of radionuclides in the water,” the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding off on allowing Entergy to ship Vermont Yankee water to a facility in Idaho. “We're doing our due diligence to understand the radioactivity levels that would be involved with the shipments,” NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said. Vermont Yankee...
Main Street Arts and the Saxtons River Historical Society are again pairing for a series of Fireside Chats to highlight the area's history on Sundays in January, from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., in the dining room of the Saxtons River Inn. The series begins Jan. 7 with the Back-to-the-Land Movement as told through the experiences of Peter Gould, author of Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm. Gould moved to Total Loss Farm in Guilford in the 1970s at the...
Paul Hawken, the author of The Ecology of Commerce, has written that the planet came with a manual of operating instructions that we seem to have lost. The instructions included: don't contaminate the soil, don't poison the water and the air, watch for overpopulation, and don't turn up the thermostat. There has been a movement afoot to find that manual, to work to compensate for the damage that has already been done, and to develop what Hawken calls a new...
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