MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Rod McCullum has what you might call conflicting feelings about storage of spent nuclear fuel at Vermont Yankee. “The fuel will be safe here,” said McCullum, a senior director at the Nuclear Energy Institute. “The fuel shouldn't stay here.” By that, McCullum was saying he has full confidence in the safety of Vermont Yankee's planned dry cask storage system for the radioactive material. But he also was lamenting the lack of a long-term federal plan for moving that waste out...
Next Stage Arts presents Argentinian duo César Lerner and Marcello Moguilevsky playing their musical fusion of klezmer, tango, jazz, and South American folk music at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. The duo has played together for more than 40 years. "Lerner and Moguilevsky are masters of their craft, threading various cultural ideas together into something new and exciting," Keith Marks, executive director of Next Stage Arts, said in a news release. "The thought...
On Feb. 25, the New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution sponsored a talk in Brattleboro by Dr. Wilfred Eisenberg, a German pediatrician who has treated children and families who were victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. He lectures widely on the effects of nuclear energy on children. Dr. Eisenberg started by describing a normal morning in their German household when he went out to their garden to pick herbs to garnish their bread and butter. Later that day he learned...
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