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...
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After more than a year of intense planning and contentious debate, the Vernon natural-gas plant project has come to an abrupt halt. Energy giant Kinder Morgan decided April 20 to pull the plug - at least for now - on its Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, and that means there will be no fuel supply for a proposed 600-megawatt gas-fired Vernon plant. Local officials noted that Kinder Morgan has “suspended” the pipeline project, meaning that work might resume at some point.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents “Unboxed: A Cultural History of Sneakers,” an online talk by Elizabeth Semmelhack, on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. This free event is presented in connection with the installation “Andy Yoder: Overboard.” Semmelhack will interlace the history of sneakers with stories of technological innovation, complex cultural politics, and shifting ideas of gender, tracing how these influences transformed sneakers into cultural icons. The creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum...
I found it interesting to find, side by side, in the June 26 issue of your paper, two articles. One commentary [“Inclusive or exclusive?,” Viewpoint] found the local business owners are “heartless capitalists” who wish to ignore the persons who are “begging or panhanding” on our streets. The other [“Waste not, want not,” Column] described how those same capitalists are actually providing, year round, literally tons of food free to these same unfortunate people. On the page following these articles,
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