PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
The Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to construct a new solar energy facility at the district's former landfill. The WSWMD, composed of 19 local communities in rural southeastern Vermont, owns the closed, 30-acre landfill on Old Ferry Road. The landfill operated from 1982 to 1995, and has a methane recovery system to generate electricity. In April 2014, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed legislation that will allow WSWMD to develop up to a 5-megawatt...
Last year, Protect Our Wildlife (POW) launched a statewide Living With Wildlife campaign to help towns pursue nonlethal methods to address human/wildlife conflicts. In Vermont, countless wild animals, including beavers, foxes, raccoons, and others, are killed under a dangerously vague statute that allows landowners and municipalities to kill wildlife that's merely suspected to cause damage to property. No reporting is required, so our state's own Fish and Wildlife Department has little to no data on how many animals are killed.
On Saturday, May 29, a new show - a particularly important one - goes up at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts. “Jackie Abrams: 45 Years of Making” brings together basketry from the Brattleboro artist's many series over her lifetime, from the traditional basketry of her early years to works in her “Precarious Shelters” series - more symbols of those shapes that hold our lives, as baskets hold our objects. Over the past 45 years, Abrams has collaborated with glass artist Josh Bernbaum...
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