BRATTLEBORO — RE: “V-Why?” [Letters, Sept. 25].
Why do the vast majority of anti-Vermont Yankee protesters emanate from outside Vermont?
Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
Robin O'Neill told the Vermont State Police she didn't remember what happened next. The next thing the 62-year-old remembered was that she either “picked up a gun or she had the gun in her hand,” wrote VSP Det. Sgt. Scott Dunlap in an affidavit. Steven Lott, 60, and his son, Jamis, 28, “were on the floor lying in a lot of blood,” O'Neill told troopers after a fatal shooting on Nov. 18. The two men were found dead by Vermont...
There hasn't been a big fossil-fuel-burning plant in the area yet, and a gas plant in Vernon would cross a threshold into the past. Maximizing efficiency and output at the old, existing Vernon Dam hydroelectric plant would be a big first step to boosting clean energy. A nice solar facility and small-to mid-scale vertical axis wind turbine array would be great. Winds funnel nicely down that part of the river valley; it's a perfect spot for harvesting wind, water, and...
Main Street Arts and the Saxtons River Historical Society are again pairing for a series of Fireside Chats to highlight the area's history on Sundays in January, from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., in the dining room of the Saxtons River Inn. The series begins Jan. 7 with the Back-to-the-Land Movement as told through the experiences of Peter Gould, author of Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm. Gould moved to Total Loss Farm in Guilford in the 1970s at the...
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