BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
At the end of May, the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness and the Chittenden County Homeless Alliance released their annual count of homelessness. The report counted the number of homeless people on one night: Jan. 31, 2018. It includes data - sometimes across multiple years - on the demographics of homeless people, where they are sheltered if they have shelter, whether children are included in the household, and for how long they have been homeless. The numbers don't paint a...
I am excited to support the campaigns of Wichie Artu and Nader Hashim. These two young men have proven track records delivering results for the people of Windham County and will bring needed new energy and experience to the Vermont Senate. Both Wichie and Nader care deeply about our community. I first connected with Wichie when he, as a vice president of the Windham County NAACP, helped my husband and me obtain a Covid vaccine. He showed initiative and concern...
When Elijah Jensen, who has cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities, was in school, he couldn't participate in many activities in an environment where “they weren't aware that that meant they needed to make accommodations for someone who had a disability,” his mother, Darlene Jensen, said. As she talked with Laura Lawson Tucker, who operated the home childhood center where Elijah spent his time, she recalled how she was “just exclaiming how there was so little for us to participate in.”
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