BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Despite damp, cold weather, a large crowd attended Monday's open house at the Bellows Falls Garage Housing Project, listening to speeches and getting the chance to tour the completed fourth floor of the building. Project organizers explained that there are still another six weeks of work until completion of the building, where wiring still hangs from fixtures and drywall mud spatters the floors on the other levels. Applications for the building's 27 apartments started coming in last week, and tenants...
It is not productive to have a public forum where people get to attack and act inappropriately, so I can only say that Curtiss Reed Jr. did the right thing in shutting it down. That there are people out there who express their racism by denying its existence or relevance is the crux of a problem we face in Vermont. In a workshop I was giving, I had one woman say, “Just by talking about race we are being racist.”
The Jamaica Community Arts Council welcomes Laura Molinelli and friends for a Mother's Day concert on Sunday, May 13, from 4 to 6 p.m. Molinelli will be joined by friends Patti Casey, Susannah Blachly, and Sally Newton in a round-robin song share “to delight everyone, not just moms,” according to a news release. This will be the second year that Laura has hosted a special show at the historic Jamaica Town Hall on Mother's Day. Blachly is a fiddler and...
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