BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
Think of it as a green-building advocate's version of “touch a truck.” Brattleboro-based Sustainable Energy Outreach Network is hosting its first “sustainable home tour” on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It features seven specially outfitted, environmentally friendly houses in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, and Saxtons River. The idea is to let the public get up close and personal with new and renovated homes that have been designated as “high performance.” Energy efficiency plays a big role...
Named "Best Folk/Soul Artist" at the 2022 Richmond International Film & Music Festival, Stone & Snow is an Americana pairing of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Karen Bridges and Clint Thomson. "Their collaboration is filled with close harmonies and thoughtful lyrics, with a name that nods to mountain landscapes of the West," notes the artists' (1)website. Their latest album, Delicate and Wild, released this year, was recorded with (2)producer David Mayfield. Stone & Snow are on tour and, through a late-breaking unexpected...
Saving money in a safe way: that has been the commitment and focus for Vermont Yankee shutdown and decommissioning ever since the plant ceased operations in 2014. The decommissioning trust fund is large (almost $600 million now) but finite. It must be used prudently to finish a lengthy, complicated job with very high safety and security standards. So Entergy deserves credit for moving up its plan to save the trust fund $1.2 million per month by appropriately reducing the security...
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