BRATTLEBORO — RE: “V-Why?” [Letters, Sept. 25].
Why do the vast majority of anti-Vermont Yankee protesters emanate from outside Vermont?
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
To prep for a forthcoming chat with bicycle fabricator Frank Wadelton, I looked him up by his alias, “Frank the Welder,” on the internet. I found - along with the expected nuts and bolts - an unexpected trove of blog posts. One, a January 2016 posting called “onehundredpercent,” caught my eye. “Prior to my first 'professional' job in the bike business[...], I worked on bike-related projects in my folks' garage during the long summer days and endless nights. I started...
Daniel Webster, the 19th-century senator from New Hampshire, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” Responding to an attempt by one or more states to tax an entity out of existence, the renowned orator sounded a cautionary note that the governor and Legislature of Vermont would do well to consider. The current target for extinction by taxation is, of course, Vermont Yankee. Today, the state's largest electrical power plant pays $5 million...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invites the public to a conversation with photographer Susan Mikula and curator Charlie Hunter about "Island," an exhibit featuring Mikula's images of the historically rich, 30-acre so-called island in Bellows Falls, Vermont. On display at BMAC until Feb. 9, named for a giant shelf of bedrock forcing the Connecticut River to make an abrupt eastward hitch in Bellows Falls, "Island" features dream-like images. Mikula achieved her ghost-like images, which were created specifically for...
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