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Voices

Entergy put money into the trust

By
Howard Shaffer
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 — Issue 395

Entergy was required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to contribute to the Decommissioning Trust Fund in 2009 or so, due to the market value falling below the required amount.

Shipping the basement water off site is a waste of money. With the political will, it could be safely put in the river.

Voices

Stand together and push back on April 5

By
Indivisible Brattleboro

BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...

Here’s how you can get in touch with federal lawmakers

By
Lori Larue

WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...

What will it take for us to get louder and more visible?

By
Calvin Dame

BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...

Attack on cultural diversity is mean, shameful, intentional

By
Paul Weber

TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...

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News

A celebration of community in food, song, and spirit

By
Rev. Lise Sparrow
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 — Issue 678

More than 300 people began streaming onto the Retreat Farm and into a big white tent on Aug. 13 as Sam Waymon - brother to the late musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone - and two backup vocalists set the upbeat rhythms for the third annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner, with guests joining in to sing together. Cliff Wood, a retired college president and a member of the Windham County Vermont NAACP leadership team, had organized the organization's members...

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Voices

Goodbye to Greg

By
Ray Massucco
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 — Issue 365

Today, I did something I have not done before. I attended a memorial service for a 29-year-old man who died in a motorcycle accident last Sunday. It is not an experience I want to repeat. Since my first funeral in the late '50s, I estimate that I have attended an average of seven funerals a year for 55 years or so. That's close to 400 of them. At some of them, I gave the eulogy. The service I attended today...

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Arts

MSA offers storytelling workshop for teens

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 — Issue 512

Everyone has a story to tell, and teens are no exception. Main Street Arts is offering teens a workshop on the art of storytelling June 17 to 21 to help them create oral and written stories from their lives. The workshop will run from 9 a.m. to noon under the leadership of Michelle Bos-Lun, a teacher of social studies and English at Okemo Mountain School who has worked for many years with youth and young adults in educational, study abroad,

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