BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members heard from the Hinsdale, New Hampshire, town administrator that that town's Selectboard would...
BRATTLEBORO-Plans to create a downtown restroom/police sub-station in the town-owned Brattleboro Transportation Center on Flat...
SAXTONS RIVER-Ethan Tapper grew up here. On Friday, July 25, the forester, best-selling author, and...
Much has been written about the effort expended on changing the way Vermont's education is...
The bulk of the responsibility to recycle now falls on the heads of individuals. But the Vermont Legislature would like to eventually shift this responsibility to companies and require them to collect all the products and packaging they produce to keep them out of the waste stream. That is the broad concept behind H.218, the Expanded Producer Responsibility Bill that is now under discussion in the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy. According to the Vermont Product Stewardship Council's...
The first time a black bear visited our house in the Dummerston woods, about a decade ago, we grabbed our cameras. We watched in fascination while the bear popped the lids off plastic garbage bins as if they were the tops of Pringles containers. Then, we called our neighbors, who put the grandkids in the car and came to watch. The next day, on the front page of the Reformer, there was a picture of our bear with a white...
As part of their third annual New England tour, this one for their new double record Lunar, Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma will stop in Bellows Falls to perform a Stone Church Arts concert on Saturday, May 19, at 7:30 pm. Based on the island of Crete in Greece, Daly and Thoma are masters of the Mediterranean lyra. In this performance, their only one in Vermont on their brief New England tour, they will be joined by Tev Stevig (oud)
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