Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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Entergy Corp.'s newly amended petition to run the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant past its initial 40-year licensing period is giving the Vermont Department of Public Service pause. Chris Recchia, commissioner of the department, said there are two main moves his team is considering. “The options are to support it with conditions or oppose it unless there are conditions,” he said. For more than a year, Entergy has been embroiled in the process of applying for a new permit to...
Is there a “Brattleboro sound”? Luke Csehak, leader of The Lentils, thinks so. The Brattleboro sound earned street cred in the national and international underground music worlds, Csehak says. He describes it as “a small, small niche,” and maintains that one still hears it referenced as the Brattleboro sound. Csehak places The Lentils firmly in the Brattleboro zeitgeist. In his view, the local scene is marked by “a spirit of true freakdom” that's rare to find. He also worries “that...
In 1995, Teresa Savel met Pulliyah, an energetic 8-year-old orphan boy staying at a boarding-school hostel in the Indian state of Telangana. Pulliyah was sharing the 16-foot-by-16-foot cement-floor room with 50 other boys in grades 1 through 10. This school and hostel had been founded and administered by Father Guilbert, a South Indian Carmelite priest, part of a Carmelite monastery. Teresa had connected with Father Guilbert through a Kansas-based foundation for children and the aging, and had enlisted as a...
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