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...
In so many aspects of Vermont living, the arts - photography, ceramics, woodworking, printing, dance, circus, fine art, theater, puppetry, literary arts, and music from classical to jazz to eclectic - figure in. The greater Brattleboro area itself is a microcosm of the Vermont scene with its high concentration of arts activity. At an April 23 gathering, the Economic & Social Impact of the Arts in Vermont, hosted by Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) at Brattleboro's Stone Church, it...
I attended the Brattleboro Union High School student walkout on March 14 to support my daughter and her classmates in protesting the lack of reasonable gun laws in our country. Because of my distress over the lives lost everyday to gun violence, and specifically the growing threat of a shooting in our schools, I chose to carry a U.S. flag upside down. I have spent half my life working on the ocean, where it is well known that flying a...
Elégie, the theatrical stage poem and the accompanying album by Cellista, comes out on Saturday, March 23. On Thursday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m., Cellista presents a workshop/recital of Elégie at New England Center for Circus Arts' (NECCA) "Big Studio " at the Cotton Mill, Room A-354. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for working artists and youths under 12, and are available at necenterforcircusarts.org. In signature Cellista style, organizers say, Elégie "defies standard categorization." The one-hour stage poem follows...
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