WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
Starting June 28, an outside contractor will provide armed, round-the-clock security for Vermont Yankee and its radioactive spent nuclear fuel. Entergy announced Tuesday that it is outsourcing protection of the Vernon plant to Securitas Critical Infrastructure Services, a subsidiary of Securitas AB — a Swedish company that bills itself as “one of the world’s largest providers of security services.” Officials say the five-year deal will save millions of dollars and will ease Entergy’s “administrative burden” at the shut-down plant SCIS...
The third Monday in April is Patriots' Day, a state holiday in Massachusetts. It marks the day in 1775 when, in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,/Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,/Here once the embattled farmers stood,/And fired the shot heard round the world.” Massachusetts, my native state, is the only state in the union with two holidays commemorating the kicking of British ass. (The other is Evacuation Day, on March 17,
Bartleby's Books is hosting its annual exhibit of Nicki Steel photography for the month of February. Steel will be showing her popular “Hearts in Nature” series of photos, as well as new material from 2016. Steel describes this past year as her “year of the birds.” She spent seven weeks in Marlboro, photographing 13 great blue herons as they grew from newly hatched chicks to fledglings. She also spent time taking pictures of the loons which nested on Lake Raponda,
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