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!
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, artist, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran.
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
Vermont Natural Resources Board officials are giving Mount Snow an extra year to finish a snow-making upgrade fueled by $30 million in EB-5 foreign investment. The West Lake Water Project's completion-deadline extension to October 2018 is further fallout from Mount Snow's long wait for federal approval of its EB-5 money. Resort administrators still hope to have the project - which will give Mount Snow six times its current snow-making capacity - done before next winter. But that schedule apparently is...
Great editorial. Is every company that donates to charity using it as a cudgel? I was there at a Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting when dry compost was thrown. I don't remember any meeting with garbage dumped. Of course, the conflict was bound to be bitter. The founders of the New England Coalition are scared of nuclear power and made up their minds it was dangerous to them and not needed before Vermont Yankee's groundbreaking. The utilities that built the plant...
BRATTLEBORO-For more than two decades, Sandy Rouse has unflinchingly led the Brattleboro Literary Festival, the annual October event she co-founded. Rouse still - with a troupe of volunteers and supporters - researches writers, negotiates appearances, and pays the bills. She provides the perennial glue to sustain this mainstay among the town's many arts offerings, which returns Friday through Sunday, Oct.18 to 20, at sites throughout downtown. Known for honoring both emerging and award-winning authors, the Festival has hosted a long...
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