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Wardsboro celebrates

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 — Issue 57

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Celebrating independence, striving for unity

This year, we celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday — its semiquincentennial. On July 4,

Vernon, state grapple with potential VY site redevelopment

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Greta Solssa

VERNON-After 40 years in operation, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon shuttered in...

Serious play

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Joyce Marcel

BRATTLEBORO-A clown is someone who pretends they have just been born, says Brattleboro’s Peter Gould.

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Governor, Retreat talk treatment needs

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Mike Faher
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 — Issue 406

Gov. Phil Scott has been in public office for more than 16 years, including six as lieutenant governor. Until May 1, however, he had never been to the Brattleboro Retreat. Scott and Retreat administrators spent part of the chilly spring morning touring the hospital's sprawling campus, talking about addiction and mental health services while visiting with staff and patients. With Scott finishing up the fourth month of his first term as governor, his Retreat stop was more of a relationship-building...

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Sam’s Sunday Set & Shed concludes 2012 season with vocalist showcase

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 — Issue 182

The 2012 season of Sam's Sunday Set & Shed mentor-protégé concert series closes Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Elliot Street Cafe, 134 Elliot St., with a 4 p.m. concert by Samirah Evans and five students who have studied jazz vocals with her. Evans will begin the program, performing a few songs with Jamie MacDonald (bass), Kate Parsons (piano) and Ben Carr (drums). Each of the five vocalists then will be invited to perform solo, with Evans joining on a few...

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Global warming, and the nature of the news

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 — Issue 125

I teach college courses in journalism, and one of the points I try to get across early on is that mainstream journalism is constrained by principles that are essential to the validity and reliability of the press, but that also mean that wrong ideas and misinformation are sometimes allowed to promulgate far beyond reasonable boundaries. The principle of objectivity and fairness requires that the press report both sides of a given story, and that it treat the statements of important...

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