BELLOWS FALLS-Rockingham for Progress (RFP), the citizens group that owns and is working to restore...
-Vermont's landmark education bill, recently signed into law, queues up some big changes to the...
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board recently approved new deer hunting rules including one that...
BRATTLEBORO-Town officials from Brattleboro and Hinsdale, New Hampshire remain at odds over the disposition of...
Entergy is accelerating its plans to move Vermont Yankee's spent nuclear fuel into more stable storage, with administrators saying they've developed a “safe and efficient” proposal for getting the job done on time. If a state permitting process goes as expected, crews will start transferring the Vernon plant's spent fuel to dry cask storage in 2017 – two years earlier than initially planned. Entergy announced the change on Dec. 16, but had first disclosed consideration of a schedule shift in...
Photographer David Holzapfel believes that sometimes art comes from the mundane, random accidents of life, such as when one's DVD player fails to work properly. That is the subject of his new series of photographs, “DwarfGlitch,” which he will be displaying at A Candle in the Night on 181 Main St. throughout May. A reception for the opening of the show is Friday, May 3, during Gallery Walk. Holzapfel explains, “'DwarfGlitch' comes from lived experience, from the techno-nonsense that is...
His name was Sam. To know Sam was to know, intimately and sometimes unfortunately, the innermost workings of an animal rescue organization. And then, there is Rocky. To know Rocky is to reawaken the hope, love, and passion that brought me into animal welfare. In the fall of 2012, I began working as a canine caregiver for a small shelter in southern Vermont. From there, I continued my education through two other shelters, and I obtained my degree in canine...
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