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!
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
Turning Point of Windham County is making a significant turn itself, as 13-year Executive Director Susan “Suzie” Walker leaves that leadership role. Not all at once, however. Walker's leaving will be a transition process, as she is at the heart of Turning Point, to ensure continuity and community. The job will be advertised in the next several weeks, and her role is expected to be filled in early 2022. “I've decided to step away from my director role and resume...
Dan DeWalt reveals that not only does he not like algebra but, in fact, many others also do not. As part of a commendable commentary outlining the shortcomings of our standard history textbooks in accurately presenting all sides in several situations he opines that “No one would expect white Americans to enjoy reading [the corrected version],” which includes what America really did to the Cubans during the Spanish-American War; that Custer, before his last stand, wiped out a peaceful encampment...
The very private and much-loved artist, Mallory Lake, died in 2017 at her home in Marlboro. While there has been no memorial service up to this point - her husband, Bob Engel, was diagnosed with a brain tumor only days after her passing and died in February - there is now a memorial exhibit at William Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton, Mass. Baczek has been showing Lake's work for 30 years. He was given access to her estate and is...
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