BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
BRATTLEBORO-On behalf of the Windham County Heat Fund and your friends and neighbors who benefit...
BRATTLEBORO-Open your door to Rescue Inc. for a pre-operation safety check of your living space.
Natalie Silver, a political consultant, submitted this open letter on behalf of more than 200...
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
For years, local officials and energy-efficiency advocates have been working to nurture and promote a “green building” industry in Windham County. Those efforts have taken on new urgency with the shutdown of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. And officials recently announced - with a boost from federal funding - creation of a new Green Building Cluster Study to identify the county's strongest assets in environmentally friendly construction and renovation. But energy efficiency is just one aspect of what some...
HINSDALE, N.H.-Third Act has it wrong. If you drive, ride, or take a bus to a protest, you benefited from fossil fuels. To protest a bank investment in fossil fuels makes a person not only uninformed but also a hypocrite. Everything from the clothes on your back to literally everything you consume was brought by fossil fuels (trucks). Your smartphone? That has plastics (based in petroleum), and if you have stayed or know someone in a hospital, petroleum-based plastics are...
The Commons sat down recently with Tim Merton and Jennifer Morsches to discuss the Sarasa Ensemble's 24th concert season, the chamber music group's upcoming Beethoven and Brahms program [story, this issue], and their unique cellos. Here's an excerpt from their conversation: Victoria Chertok: Let's start with National Arts and Humanities Month. Why are the arts important, and what can we do to encourage students to participate and enjoy them fully? Tim Merton: For us especially, the arts are important because...
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