All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
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...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
Man's best friends here are leading in a new way to help build community and make for a more dog-loving, tourist-friendly town. The Wilmington Dog-Friendly Downtown Group and Wilmington Works, a downtown organization that collaborates with businesses on public projects to improve and support a vital downtown, petitioned the Selectboard for $1,010 from the local option sales tax to buy four “poop stations” to be located on trails throughout the downtown. At their July 6 meeting, board members agreed. “Dog...
Your recent article about the impact of the new anti-immigrant agenda on local educational institutions was eye-opening and very discouraging. The United States was founded by immigrants and almost all of us have ancestors who were immigrants. Immigrants enrich our country in so many ways. They are hard working and entrepreneurial; 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. Some in this administration are forgetting that the fundamental protections embodied in our Constitution...
"Still Life," a series of recent watercolors by Alice Freeman, is now on exhibit at the Putney Public Library through March 2. "For me painting is all about color and the joy it produces: in the doing of it and in the looking at it," Freeman said in a news release. "Watercolor is my preferred medium because of its unexpected quality and the knowledge that I never have complete control over it. Much of the magic happens on the paper...
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