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Voices

They still sound great

By
Betsy Nichols
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 — Issue 294

Wonderful article - thanks. It prompted me to listen to Feathers tonight for the first time in a few years; the group still sounds great.

I'm going to look for Ruth Garbus's solo music online now!

Voices

‘Nobody knows what I’m going to do’

By
MacLean Gander

MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...

On being Jewish now

By
Deborah Lee Luskin

Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...

Some notes on bravery (and Brahms)

By
Meg Donahue

Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...

Looking beyond generalizations

By
Emily Carris Duncan

Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...

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Around the Towns

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 — Issue 287

Petitions available for Brattleboro town elections BRATTLEBORO - Petitions for Town and Town School District officers and Town Meeting Members are available at the Town Clerk's office. Town elections are Tuesday, March 3, in the Selectboard Meeting Room of the Municipal Center. Annual Representatives Town Meeting is Saturday, March 21, in the BAMS multi-purpose room. Petitions for town officers must contain at least 30 valid signatures of registered Brattleboro voters and be filed in the clerk's office no later than...

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Voices

Being able to move a meter needle does not equal dangerous

By
Howard Shaffer
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 — Issue 418

The headline is right, the letter is wrong. If the Vermont Yankee buildings were there for a fossil-fuel plant, demolishing them would require industrial safety measures, which would be overseen by demolition experts, not the plant operational staff. It will be that way for the nuclear plant, too. As shown by NorthStar, large-building and industrial-facility removal has evolved as a speciality, with the special hazards of each type of plant - chemical, petroleum, radioactive, etc. - planned for. The radioactive...

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Arts

No permission required

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — Issue 510

Actor Jon Mack believes that sometimes a performance of a play, even if it is performed word-for-word as originally written, need not completely adhere to the intentions of the author. Take, for instance, the new production of David Mamet's Oleanna, which the Rock River Players will present on two weekends this month. Directed by Bahman Mahdavi, this two-character drama features Jon Mack and Rebecca Musgrove in a play about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his...

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