BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
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...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-It has taken two years since researchers first began accumulating evidence, but on June 7, scientists announced that shortnose sturgeon are living in the Connecticut River as far north as the hydroelectric dam in Bellows Falls. Sturgeon exist in the fossil record going back 250 million years and, for thousands of years, have been native species in the Connecticut River. But this is the first time that sturgeon, which can grow up to 4.5 feet in length and live...
Readers, imagine, as you read this letter, that you have been accused of doing something terrible 30 years ago, or longer. Imagine yourself and your family undergoing national scrutiny by people who do not even personally know you but are taking the accuser's side. Imagine your accuser insists repeatedly it was you who committed the crime. Imagine that the accusation will affect your entire life and maybe even cost you a job or career. This is a horror many of...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will host a free, public celebration of its spring exhibits, with many of the exhibiting artists and curators in attendance, on Saturday, May 15, at 5:30 p.m. in the museum's galleries and under a tent on the front lawn. Refreshments will be served outdoors, and two new exhibits, “Scott Boyd: Endangered Alphabets” and “Delita Martin: Between Worlds,” will be on view, in addition to the five exhibits that opened in March. “Because of...
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