BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Affordability. What does that word mean to you? To me, the word has come to mean necessary, to mean room to breathe, to mean thriving, to mean having enough resources to meet immediate needs like housing and food. Affordability means all that - and having resources to put away for a rainy day. And enough resources left over for dinner and a movie. As a Vermonter, it is painful to admit that our state is not affordable for many of...
My name is Aileen Chute, and I am running for re-election to the three-year Selectboard seat in Putney. I like to joke that I am the longest-serving member of the Putney Selectboard, and that is true because Putney has a young board. I have served on the Selectboard for one entire three-year term and have been honored with the seat of chair for the last two. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, much of my professional career has been in...
The Stone Church, 210 Main St., presents a “Vermont Carnival Breakdown” with the Celebration Brass Band and VT Shakedown on Friday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. The night of cajun brass and Afro-beat funk will include some cajun-themed food specials. VT Shakedown plays funk and Afro-beat, with a tight rhythm section interacting with ripping horn solos, polyrhythms interwoven with vocals, hypnotic bass and guitar lines, and funked-up drums. Celebration Brass Band emerged in 2009 under the leadership of New Orleans...
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