BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
BRATTLEBORO-It was no April Fool's Day Joke. On April 1, five Administration for Children regional...
Moss Kahler has served as recycling coordinator in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard members are facing difficult...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-At no other time since its inception in 1970 has preserving what remains of...
BRATTLEBORO-May the 4th: Be with us! Edible Brattleboro is rallying the community to kick off...
The March 15 School Strike for Climate, an international walkout to demand immediate action to deal with climate change, saw area students joining with more than 1.5 million youths in more than 100 countries in one of the largest-ever global climate demonstrations. The youth-led strike was inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who last August helped start a movement that evolved from her solitary vigil outside the Swedish Parliament every Friday into the recent massive global walkout. Students participated...
The recent defeat of the cruel and hastily crafted health care bill was not solely due to the incompetence and venal nature of the party in power. I have listened to the corporate media, and it would be easy to miss the tens of thousands of people - probably millions - who called their representatives or attended town meetings to speak out. The numbers were startling. Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma cited calls running 1,000-to-1 opposed to this bill! If...
Virtually everyone knows about Samson and Delilah. In the story, perhaps best exemplified in the 1949 Hollywood film of the same name with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr that was revived at the Latchis last month, an Israelite strongman meets the seductress Delilah who cuts off his hair so that he loses his strength and becomes the captive of the Philistines who blind him. Nevertheless, he musters enough strength in the end to knock down the temple, killing all the...
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