Certainly, Vermont should not be adding a dirty-fossil-fuel plant! How about a solar facility with non-toxic aqueous battery storage instead?
Keep moving forward. Don't backslide!
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 Union High School senior Ben Berg has received a congressional nomination to the Air Force Academy. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt. recognized 19 young Vermonters who are being nominated to be members of the class of 2028 at U.S. service academies. The nominees were recognized at a reception at the Vermont State House on Dec. 30. Applicants to the academies - the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the United States...
When it comes to candidates for Brattleboro Selectboard, Richard Davis is the real deal. I have known Richard for over 40 years. We worked together at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. We started the Windham County Heat Fund in 2005, raising almost $1 million and providing heat for over 2,000 families. Richard has served on many nonprofit boards. He also helped start Guilford Cares. When Richard says he will do something, he not only keeps his word but he accomplishes the task...
On Friday, April 9, at 5 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Fest continues the celebration of its 20th anniversary year with a free virtual gathering celebrating Vermont author Julia Cooke's new book, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am. A news release describes the book as an account of “glamour, danger, and liberation in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight.” Cooke will be in conversation with author and former TWA stewardess Ann Hood. Cooke's intimate...
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