BRATTLEBORO — Great coverage of a terrific event! Thank you to the Brattleboro Chamber, and specifically to Kate O'Connor and Greg Lesch, for all of their hard work on the recent governor's debate!
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
Vermont Yankee owner Entergy has dropped its bid to withdraw cash from the plant's decommissioning trust fund without first notifying the federal government. It's a victory for the state of Vermont, which had challenged Entergy's attempt to amend its license and eliminate a required 30-day advance notice for fund withdrawals. In late August, the federal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board had granted the state a hearing on the matter. The company is not admitting defeat on the substance of that...
Two 11th-graders from Leland & Gray Union High School, Anthony Carona and Kelsey Hescock, are co-artists for the month of April at the Wardsboro Public Library. Both are Wardsboro residents. Carona started drawing dinosaurs at the age of three. In middle school, influenced by Japanese animation, he adapted his drawings to computers. Now he hand-draws and hand-inks his artwork, then scans and colors it with Adobe Illustrator, which he uses to animate it as well. Carona designed costumes for the...
All that state Rep. Seth Bongartz (D-Manchester) and his colleagues are doing is facing the fact that lovely Vermont just isn’t what it thinks it is anymore. The bill they’re proposing to enable housing development by banning single-family zoning and allowing duplexes and even three-and-four-unit homes in some municipalities just makes sense. A couple of decades ago I began to understand what Vermont had become. Driving from our Weathersfield house to a friend’s place a few miles down the Center...
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