WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-This weekend's opening of 2025's Ten Minute Play Festival (TMPF) at Actors Theatre...
BELLOWS FALLS-With a career spanning more than 50 years, Jorma Kaukonen has done it all.
BRATTLEBORO-June is recognized by the Alzheimer's Association as "Alzheimer's and Brain Health Awareness Month" (ABAM)
BRATTLEBORO-Former Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord and former Brooklyn, New York, Poet Laureate D. Nurkse...
Entergy Corp. has agreed to resume pumping tritiated groundwater from the soils within the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant compound by the end of December. The Louisiana-based corporation has also said it will step up its environmental monitoring efforts. Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin toured Vermont Yankee on Friday and met with Entergy officials to discuss a formal request he issued to the company and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In his letter last week to Michael Colomb, Vermont Yankee site vice-president, and...
High liability/low probability events cannot be insured using the standard method. Take, for example, the recently renewed terrorism risk insurance program. Private insurers refuse to insure businesses against a terrorist act except at a very high premium. But just to be clear about how the Price-Anderson Act works, any nuclear accident claims above $12.6 billion (2011 value) would be covered by a congressional mandate to retroactively increase nuclear utility liability or would be covered by the federal government. So there...
The Marlboro Studio School is gearing up for its second term of studio classes beginning Sunday, Oct. 8, on the 500-plus–acre Potash Hill campus on South Road. Fall 2023 course offerings include residential one-week workshops and eight-week studio classes. Enrollment is open for all fall 2023 courses, and space is still available. The Marlboro Studio School is a newly developing art center with established facilities that offer hands-on instruction to all levels of students in a variety of craft and...
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