BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
At the NRC hearing [see main story], Clay Turnbull, a staff member with the New England Coalition, announced that the anti-nuclear advocacy group and NorthStar have formed the Citizens Advisory Group at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. NorthStar Decommissioning is the current owner of Vermont Yankee and is in the process of dismantling the plant. In a joint press release, both parties said that the advisory group represents “a new process for public engagement in the decommissioning of nuclear power...
I was disappointed to see Randolph T. Holhut's article, “Sanders pushes progressive priorities during speech in Brattleboro” [News, Sept. 8] make no mention of the violent arrest which took place at the Labor Day event. And I was distressed to find it mentioned only in William Johnson's poorly reported letter [Voices, Sept. 8], which misrepresents several key facts. I was one of several concerned citizens who filmed the incident as it unfolded, and I have made my recording available at...
PUTNEY-Considered one of the finest pianists in Europe until her brother Wolfgang came along, Maria Anna Mozart, nicknamed "Nannerl," was born in 1751 in Salzburg, Austria. She was nearly five years older than her brother, and they were both considered musical geniuses. Her father, Leopold, started her on the piano at age 8. She and her brother performed all over Europe until she was 16, when she stopped performing in public because she was a woman. To date, all of...
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