DUMMERSTON — RE: The premature and shortsighted closing of Vermont Yankee:
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members of a dwindling fellowship - veterans of World War II. Stone served in the Army's 623rd Engineer Light Equipment Company as a combat engineer. His unit, assigned to the 1103rd Engineer Combat Group, landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 23, 1944, just 17 days after D-Day. Driving a Caterpillar D7 armored bulldozer across Europe through some of the toughest battles in the European...
Are we at a turning point in Brattleboro in how we look at budgets and energy? Are we starting to look more deeply at the longer term and at life cycle costs and not just initial investment? Does that approach line up better with energy savings and thus more effectively also address climate change? I believe we have signs of such a turning point, as evidenced by a mixed bag of recent decisions by the Selectboard. Every year there is...
Violinist Ying Xue and pianist Qing Jiang return to Yellow Barn to complete the work that they began during an artist residency last season. Their program, titled “Refractions,” focuses on sonatas of J.S. Bach and Maurice Ravel, juxtaposed with works written over the past decade by Tonia Ko, Eric Nathan, Sean Shepherd, and Daniel Temkin. They will give the premiere performance of this new program in their free public concert on Sunday, Feb. 23. The performance will begin at 7:30...
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