GUILFORD — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
Roger Katz was one of the good guys, one of the best. Very sad to say goodbye.
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
It will take a while for state and federal regulators to decide whether NorthStar Group Services can buy Vermont Yankee. But in the meantime, the New York company isn't just waiting around. New documents show NorthStar already has begun performing engineering and design work at Vermont Yankee under a separate, “pre-closing” contract with plant owner Entergy. NorthStar contractor Areva also has started similar work. Entergy says these preliminary projects will prove valuable no matter who ends up decommissioning Vermont Yankee.
In the early 1990s, during and after my time at Marlboro College, I spent countless hours at McNeill's Brewery in Brattleboro. Some months I spent more on beer than rent, probably - neither were very expensive. My favorites were the Extra Special Bitter, the Oatmeal Stout, and the legendary Dead Horse IPA (“you can't beat a Dead Horse”). I think every one of us who loved McNeill's could write a memoir. The darts, the sound of Jenga crashing, Holiday's chicken...
Before America had talking heads it had public intellectuals. These were men and women who were respected for the quality of their minds, their educations, their ideas, their contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the country and to the world. “The public intellectual (is) someone deeply committed to the life of the mind and to its impact on the society at large,” wrote Barry Gewen in The New York Times in 2008. “Public intellectuals were free-floating and unattached...
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