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Voices

Not new

By
Edward Childs
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 — Issue 158

DUMMERSTON — RE: “Vermont Yankee investigates electrical failure,” June 20:

So very, very reliable (I say sarcastically).

Not clean. Not green. Not safe. Not cheap. Not necessary.

Not new. It's old, very old. It should be called “oldclear.”

Peace.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Results hold for Rockingham School District race

By
Robert F. Smith
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 — Issue 806

BELLOWS FALLS-A recount of ballots for the Rockingham School District three-year seat added one more vote for each of the candidates, but the results remained: Write-in candidate Christopher Kibbe beat Priscilla Lambert by three votes. A committee of seven citizens performed the recount March 10 in the Rockingham Town Hall under the watchful eye of Town Clerk Kathleen Kelly. Dennis Harty was elected to chair the group, and the recount took about 90 minutes as Lambert and Kibbe looked on.

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Voices

Closing VY would ignore the good that Entergy provides

By
Ben Egnew
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 — Issue 111

What charitable organization could afford to have a loss of 27 percent in its fundraising? In 2010, the United Way of Windham County raised $500,000 through community fundraising. Of that amount, Vermont Yankee employees, through personal contributions and a corporate match, provided $136,000, which was 27 percent of the entire amount generated by the campaign that year. How many local companies or businesses would be able to assist in the recovery of funds that would be lost if Vermont Yankee...

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Arts

National Poetry Month celebrated with ‘Poems Around Town’

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 — Issue 760

BRATTLEBORO-In celebration of the art and craft of poetry, a group of organizations led by Write Action has filled downtown with poems submitted by poets living in the area, throughout the state, or in the tri-state area of southern Vermont. Commemorating National Poetry Month in April, "Poems Around Town" is co-sponsored by Brooks Memorial Library and the Brattleboro Literary Festival, with the participation of numerous downtown businesses in whose shop windows the poems will appear through the entire month. Poets...

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