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Voices

Pesticides make kids sick

By
Connor Noyes-Urffer
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 — Issue 440

BRATTLEBORO — I would like to teach you about farming.

I have to say: Kids pick our food. Farm owners spray pesticides on the food. The pesticides make kids sick.

People who work in this profession should get $4 to $20 per bucket or bag.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Washington, D.C. firm signed to dismantle Vermont Yankee reactor

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 — Issue 417

A Washington, D.C.-based company has signed a contract to take apart and ship away Vermont Yankee's reactor. Areva Nuclear Materials' deal with NorthStar Group Services is contingent on NorthStar's receiving state and federal permission to buy and decommission the idled Vernon nuclear plant. Areva's involvement in the cleanup project has been known since the proposed NorthStar deal went public last November. But administrators said the contract signing, announced July 11, “formalizes” the company's role in what would be a crucial,

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Voices

Economic harmony will bring peace

By
Emily Peyton
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 — Issue 737

The current war has one solution: peace. What is peace? Peace is treating every person with the respect they need. Peace is creating economic environments for everyone to thrive, where everyone has the dignity of enough money to be purposeful in life and not subjected to stress of abject poverty, where everyone is encouraged to fulfill a personal purpose and develop personal strengths. Nothing about our economic reality currently fulfills this. However, were the political and banking class to attend...

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Arts

Unconventional and absurdist

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 — Issue 395

Shoot the Moon Theater Company opens its 2017 season at the Hooker-Dunham Theater with a two-weekend run of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 17-18, and Feb. 24-25. The dramatic comedy by Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada made its New York City debut in 2014 with an English translation by Aya Ogawa. Time-Out New York awarded it four stars and The New York Times praised it as “a war on boredom.

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