Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
In late January, the Vermont Commission on Women celebrated a milestone - the 100th signer of the state's equal pay compact. Recently, Brattleboro-based Windham Regional Commission became the compact's 127th signatory. That kind of growth - a 25 percent boost in roughly four months - is a positive sign for those who continue to fight to bring women's wages up to the same level as men's. The compact is in many ways a symbolic gesture. But its significance wasn't lost...
This is great news ! Vermont at one time had looked into diesel multiple unit (DMU) trains, but then Colorado Rail went under. Now, at least two DMU trains meet Federal Railroad Administration regulations and could be used along this route for fast, lower-cost service. Has anyone looked into this? So now what happens to UMass-Amherst campus train service? Again, here is where a UMass DMU train could run between the campus and Springfield, Mass., say, to match up with...
When jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan was informed that she was the 2012 recipient of the nation's highest honor in jazz, the National Endowment of the Arts' Jazz Masters Award, her initial response was, “Are you kidding?” She really meant it. When the 83-year-old singer answered the phone, she believed the caller was trying to sell her something. “You know how those guys sound,” she says. “So when he asked if I was Sheila Jordan, I answered, 'Yeah,' a little exasperated.”
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