Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
The owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant won a crucial victory in federal court on Monday when U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha issued an injunction that prevents the state of Vermont from closing the nuclear plant when VY's current state permit expires on March 21. Murtha granted Entergy's request regarding spent fuel storage, saying that the state cannot shut the plant “pending the appeal of the Court's final judgment and merits decision to the Second Circuit, from...
I have served in the House of Representatives since 2015 as an elected independent for rural communities here in southern Vermont. While our state is full of innovators and cutting-edge businesses, it is the scenic farms and villages, rural startups and arts culture, trails and smallness of places like our Deerfield towns, that Vermonters identify with, that comfort us and that beckon to new Vermonters. But our rural communities have fallen behind in our demographics and economy and our physical...
The seventh- and eighth-grade students at The Grammar School in Putney will perform scenes from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. This production is the culmination of an intensive artist residency with Vermont teaching artist John Hadden, an accomplished actor and director. This residency was made possible by a generous grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Hadden is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox,
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