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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 — Issue 242

ATHENS — “This is not normal,” a New York City resident observed the other day about the polar vortex, snow, ice, then spring-like days followed by more snow and more ice. “The Earth is off its axis or something.”

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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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Dummerston rep. resigns from WSESD board

By
Virginia Ray
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 — Issue 798

BRATTLEBORO-After serving two years of her three-year term on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school board, Dummerston representative Eva Nolan has resigned. "I have made the difficult decision to resign from WSESD so that voters can have ample time to choose their representative for the rest of the year," Nolan wrote in her resignation letter, effective Jan. 1. "I genuinely feel that under the current board structure there isn't a clear path toward meaningful progress." Asked to further explain...

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NorthStar should be held to previous decommissioning standards

By
Amelia Shea
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 — Issue 440

Paul Hawken, the author of The Ecology of Commerce, has written that the planet came with a manual of operating instructions that we seem to have lost. The instructions included: don't contaminate the soil, don't poison the water and the air, watch for overpopulation, and don't turn up the thermostat. There has been a movement afoot to find that manual, to work to compensate for the damage that has already been done, and to develop what Hawken calls a new...

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Arts

Epsilon Spires presents ‘Downtown 81,’ a portrait of underground NYC art scene

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 — Issue 617

At sundown on Friday, June 25, the arts organization Epsilon Spires will turn the parking lot of the historic First Baptist Church into an open-air movie theater for the fourth installment of the Backlot Cinema Series. Audience members are encouraged to bring blankets, pillows, and chairs to make themselves comfortable for the screening of Downtown 81, a day-in-the-life film following a young artist in New York City, played by a teenaged Jean-Michel Basquiat. The footage for Downtown 81 was shot...

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