MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is seeking $4 million in expense reductions and new revenue in the...
While Vermont Yankee's $143 million fuel storage project still has a long way to go, federal inspectors like what they've seen so far. Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors have visited the Vernon plant to observe the transfer of radioactive spent fuel into more secure storage. Federal officials also have interviewed workers at the site and reviewed records. The bottom line, the NRC says in an Aug. 16 report, is that “no findings of safety significance were identified.” Entergy wants to sell...
The sky was still dark when a parade of pigs trotted out of the woods and stomped into our barnyard. There were about 30 of them - sows, boars, shoats, gilts, and a few piglets - all squealing and bellowing. The two horses and two mini-donkeys left their feed tubs and craned their necks out of their stall doors, heads raised, eyes wide, nostrils flared. I walked outside and stepped into the crowd. The pigs stopped clamoring. An old sow...
When the Leland and Gray (L&G) Players, the theater program at Leland & Gray Union Middle/High School, was left without direction at the end of the summer, the administration hustled: "It was very funny, actually," recalls Doran "Dory" Hamm, 38, the newly appointed Players' director. "The previous theater director left relatively quickly, so they put out a call." The three "main people who applied were us three," Hamm said, referencing himself and the other two people in a Zoom interview...
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