BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Meg McCarthy, for your well-written commentary.
It is important that Vermont keep its prisoners here in Vermont - especially when they have lived the majority of their lives here.
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
Facing the four overseers of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during a Sept. 9 hearing, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch saw an opportunity to ask about Vermont Yankee. His two primary questions: Can the NRC allow more state and local input on nuclear-plant decommissioning? And can the federal government hasten the decades-long cleanup at VY? The NRC's answers were, respectively, “maybe,” and “no.” In the most telling exchange between commission Chairman Stephen Burns and Vermont's sole representative in the House, Burns said...
I urge Windham County voters to join me in casting a vote for Dave Schoales for the Vermont State Senate. Schoales has said he is running to replace Senator Jeanette White. As chair of the Government Operations Committee, Senator White has been the Legislature's leading proponent for allowing corporations to finance Vermont political campaigns. In 2011, she took the extreme step of not bringing a campaign finance reform bill that had been approved by her committee to the secretary of...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents two online talks in January related to “Rachel Portesi: Hair Portraits,” an exhibit of tintype photographs on view through Feb. 14. Helen Sheumaker, Ph.D., author of Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America, presents “Linking Us Fondly: Hairwork in 19th Century America” on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. Her talk will explore the practice of transforming hair into mementos, one of the inspirations for Portesi's photographs of women with...
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