ROCKINGHAM-I am concerned and dismayed over the recent decision by the management of North Star...
BRATTLEBORO-Denise Gebroe is correct that the issues motivating the No Surveillance in Health Care campaign...
Marvin Resnikoff is an international consultant on radioactive waste issues. A nuclear physicist and a...
LEYDEN, MASS.-In response to Holland Mills' recent letter, it's essential to address significant omissions and...
A new economic study of Windham and Bennington counties begins with this succinct assessment: “Southern Vermont is in trouble.” The bulk of the report, mandated by this year's creation of the Southern Vermont Economic Development Zone, is dedicated to potential solutions to the region's financial and demographic troubles. Those include creating a regional economic strategy; funding a recruiting and marketing campaign; developing a broadband-financing plan; and starting a public-private partnership to lure investment capital. The document will be delivered to...
Throughout history, including, at times, in our own country many years ago, the forcible separation of families has been used as an instrument of terror. I struggle to imagine a more damaging and inhumane governmental policy than to forcibly and needlessly tear children away from their parents. For decades, the United States has rightly led the world in condemning such practices as flagrant abuses of government power and human rights. Yet today, in an extraordinary breach of our most basic...
On Friday, April 6, at 7 p.m., Vermont Academy will present the New England premiere of a short film, Off the Street, that was filmed on the school's campus during a summer arts camp 50 years prior. The event is free and open to the public, according to a news release. The evening will include a question-and-answer session with one of the art students featured in the film, Bernard Stanley Hoyes, now an internationally known artist. In 1968, Jere Michael...
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