RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
On Tuesday morning, a big part of Vermont Yankee's footprint vanished. That's because the shut-down nuclear plant's 10-mile emergency planning zone, which touches 18 towns in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, expired due to a license change approved last year by federal regulators. The EPZ's demise means there will be no more sirens or tone-alert radios to warn residents of an incident at the Vernon facility, where radioactive spent nuclear fuel is expected to remain until 2052. But Entergy administrators...
The Groundworks Collaborative's vision of a homeless shelter and a suite of services at 39 Frost St. has been a hot topic, but the whole story is even hotter and has been mostly overlooked. The project is not yet final, and neighbors of the proposed site have serious concerns. There has been rare mention of the neighborhood, the flesh-and-blood people who would be living next door or nearby, nor the fact that the project depends in part on their silence,
BRATTLEBORO-Boston-based Juventas New Music Ensemble presents "Sounds of New England," a program of music inspired by natural places in each New England state. From the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the lighthouses of Rhode Island, this concert offers a musical tour, set for Friday, May 30, at 7 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center. The program includes Stacy Garrop's "Beacon of the Bay," Oliver Caplan's In the Direction of Dreams, Rachel Panitch's "Sand and Snow," Jason Cain's "Granite Peaks...
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