What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
A Vermont Yankee employee's deliberate failure to check radiation exposure monitors was a “personal accountability issue,” and no other staffers engaged in such behavior, the company says. In a new filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy says it conducted an extensive review after federal inspectors discovered that a staffer hadn't checked the functionality of personnel contamination monitors for eight months in 2016. The technician in question was fired, Entergy says. The company found no evidence of similar problems after...
Main Street Arts (MSA) will offer two summer camp programs - Trish Roberts's Wildbrook Forest Theater Camp and The Un-Lost Island of Atlantis with Putnam Smith. No theater experience is necessary, and no audition will be required. Space is limited, with slots available by sign-up on a first-come, first-served basis. The return to offering summer camp is part of MSA's focus on strengthening the well-being of area children. The camps will explore how to connect deeply to the natural world...
BRATTLEBORO-In the public discourse of the Israeli-Gaza conflict, I am struck by how few comments I have heard that represent both-and thinking - not only in local news and opinion outlets, but everywhere. Is it not possible to hold both the sorrow for the merciless attacks on Israeli civilians and the rampant killing of Palestinians? Except for those in the most extreme camps of this bloody debate, I cannot imagine that people who speak for one side or the other...
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