Vernon should focus on baseload power.
Decentralized intermittent generation gobbles up open lands. Vernon should preserve its history of agricultural and open lands.
AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Hungry for a holiday from cooking breakfast this Christmas? Jadi Flynn and Megan Walker would be happy to serve you. Flynn and Walker are the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Charlie Slate, who started Brattleboro's free annual Christmas Breakfast, an event that his family and friends are set to continue for hundreds of diners. Slate, who died in 2008, began the tradition in 1982 upon noticing most restaurants closed for the holiday. This year, volunteers will arrive before dawn at American...
Friends of Music at Guilford seeks additional voices for its Chamber Singers in preparation for its yearly “A Cappella à la Carte” event. This 50th Anniversary Season finale is set for Saturday, June 25, at a hilltop property in Guilford. The gathering will include a brief annual meeting, a potluck meal, and concert sets by the Chamber Singers and the Singcrony women's quartet. Other music-making may emerge as plans develop for this half-century birthday celebration. The Chamber Singers will perform...
Spoon Agave, a former member of the Selectboard and Development Review Board in Brattleboro, serves as a Representative Town Meeting member for District 8. Having known Kurt Daims and his organization Brattleboro Common Sense for many years, I have followed with interest the brouhaha he created when he bought, at his own expense, a couple of old RVs and parked them in his driveway to shelter a few of the homeless population. I did see these vehicles and, though they...
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