BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently announced that it will conduct a study of approximately 3,700 post offices around the nation, mostly in rural areas, to determine customer needs. The study comes as part of an effort to introduce a retail-replacement option for affected communities around the nation. One of those communities is Cambridgeport, a village near the Grafton town line that is part of the town of Rockingham. USPS spokesman Tom Rizzo, based in Portland, Maine, said it's important...
Though most of Martin Cohn's response to my Viewpoint on Ben & Jerry's decision to stop selling its ice cream in the occupied territories [“For now, two cheers for Ben & Jerry's,” Oct. 20] recycles well-known Israeli talking points, he deviates from the party line by implying that Israel's presence in the West Bank and other areas does, indeed, represent an occupation - albeit an occupation he considers to be justified. The authorized Zionist nomenclature for these territories is “disputed,”
Since construction of the Vernon Dam flooded the Retreat Meadows 110 years ago, Abenaki petroglyphs - ancient images carved in stone - have rested submerged, unseen evidence of the significant Native presence all around us. A special installment of the monthly Brattleboro Words Project's free Roundtable Discussion series will be held on the waters of the West River/Connecticut River confluence to explore this presence and celebrate ongoing Vermont Land Trust conservation efforts adjacent to the site at The Marina Restaurant...
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