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Memories of Putney Grade School

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Ralph Maratea
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 — Issue 319

This story was a great read, and it brought back many memories.

I'm looking forward to the Putney Grade School reunion, and seeing all of you. Thank you for all your hard work.

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Southern Vermont has been here before

By
Adam Grinold

Adam Grinold is executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation. For more about the...

A fully democratic process

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Dan DeWalt

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...

A resistance emboldened by love

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Town Meeting: an extremely rare direct democracy

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Bahman Mahdavi

NEWFANE-Town Meeting, a state holiday usually held on the first Tuesday in March, is a...

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Nuclear community planners face uncertainty

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 — Issue 329

As public officials and experts gathered here to talk about the impact of nuclear-plant closures, there was a common theme: uncertainty. That word applies to the surprisingly scattershot federal nuclear decommissioning regulations. Speakers at the Oct. 21 conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst used the words “mess” and “travesty” to describe the lack of clear guidelines. But there's also much uncertainty over the ways in which a shutdown affects a community, given all the factors that make a nuclear...

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Voices

Little beyond resentment of Trump, fondness for Democrats

By
Olaf Errwigge
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 — Issue 406

Elayne Clift rightly laments “the fear of having a catastrophic health crisis, worrying about climate change, deregulation, deportations, the return to banking practices that brought this country to its knees, global instability, the possibility of war, rising hate crimes, the silencing of media, and much more.” But she very wrongly characterizes them as uniquely “Trumpian.” All of these “stressors” have been steadily growing since Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton remade their respective parties to pursue neoliberal austerity at home and...

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Gould presents ‘Horse-Drawn Yogurt Radio’

Wednesday, June 26, 2019 — Issue 516

New England Youth Theatre, 100 Flat St., will present an Alumni Anniversary Production of “Horse Drawn Yogurt Radio Hour,” written and directed by Peter Gould, to be performed at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29. Gould's Vermont memoir, Horse Drawn Yogurt, is a collection of stories of his life as a young man on a farm commune at the height of the back-to-the-land movement. The book is a Green Writers Press original, and Gould has done...

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