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Vernon briefs

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 — Issue 363

Fuel bids accepted

VERNON — VERNON - At the June 6 regular Selectboard meeting, the Board accepted a variety of fuel bids to cover the town's needs.

Roads Commissioner David Walker presented the Board with the bids and recommended splitting them among two different vendors to get the best deals for the town.

The Board voted to accept Barrows and Fisher's bid for #2 heating oil at $1.55 per gallon and unleaded gasoline at $1.935 per gallon; and A.R. Sandri's bid for winter #3 blend diesel at $2.13 per gallon and summer diesel at $1.93 per gallon.

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Rally takes over the street

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 — Issue 476

They came on foot and on bicycle. Approximately 100 cyclists took over Western Avenue on Sept. 8 as they participated in the Windham County Rise for Climate Rally and Ride. The riders took a turn, glided down Green Street, turned left onto Elliot Street, and finally pedaled their way along Main Street to the Town Common, where they were met by more than 100 marchers who walked from Plaza Park across from the Brattleboro Food Co-op. The rally and ride...

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Voices

Who bears responsibility for the atrocities of war?

By
Stephen Minkin
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 — Issue 786

BRATTLEBORO-A recent photograph in The New York Times shows President Biden warmly greeting the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A few days earlier, on Sept. 18, Nicholas Kristof's article, "I Just Went to Darfur. Here's What Shattered Me," appeared in the newspaper. In it, he documents massacres of males followed by the rape of girls and young women and starvation in the Darfur region of Sudan. These widespread atrocities are part of a strategy openly carried out by...

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Arts

Latchis Theatre celebrates Halloween with Wicked Weekend

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 — Issue 533

The Latchis Theatre gets into the Halloween spirit with Wicked Weekend, featuring three special programs running a wild, weird, and wicked gamut from Oct. 25 through Oct. 27. Wicked Weekend kicks off with an invitation to Do the Time Warp Again! as Latchis Arts presents its annual screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday, Oct. 25, at 10 p.m. This cult classic starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick first hooked audiences in 1975 and has inspired...

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