BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a...
BRATTLEBORO-With this month's effective end to the state's motel voucher program on July 1, a...
BRATTLEBORO-The annual Brattleboro Goes Fourth! parade on July 4 featured plenty of vehicles from all...
BRATTLEBORO-When the Vermont Legislature adjourned on June 16, it had run more than a month...
The legal world holds its breath awaiting Federal Judge J. Garvan Murtha's ruling on the Entergy v. Vermont case. Meanwhile, the debate over safety and the Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee power station rolls on. Representatives from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Entergy, and the public spoke before the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel (VSNAP) on Dec. 14. NRC Senior Resident Inspector Scott Rutenkroger, previously stationed at James A. FitzPatrick nuclear power in Scriba, N.Y., outlined his daily work rounds for...
It may be a well-written story, but when using a very common name such as Steven Jones, it might be helpful to add a middle initial. Unfortunately, I am a local accountant, age 45, and I was not buying cocaine from Sultan Rashed just before his death.
In preparation for an upcoming visit from a prominent author, local attorney Ray Massucco orchestrated a crowdsourced search for a flat-top lectern. “Mr. Sedaris prefers a lectern that is not very slanted, so the hunt is on,” Massucco wrote on Facebook on Sunday. Within a couple of days, local book merchant Pat Fowler informed Massucco that she had found one - a suitably quirky piece of furniture that should please one David Sedaris, the 64-year-old humorist and essayist whose work...
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