BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...
In 1996, when Pat Burke was invited to attend a meeting of the Brattleboro Area Affordable Housing (BAAH) board, she went. She was young, new to the area and to human resources work, and she was flattered that someone thought her input would be valuable. She's been going to monthly BAAH meetings ever since. The September 2023 meeting was her last; she is leaving the volunteer board, but she won't stop working to assist people in need. "There was always...
Candidly, this is all about the profits for Iberdrola and Meadowsend. If Meadowsend were truly concerned about preserving the Stiles Brook, as Jeremy Turner contends, then the company would do what any responsible citizen would do and establish a land trust. In my home state of Rhode Island, environmentally concerned citizens lacking the resources of Meadowsend willingly deed their valuable Block Island oceanfront land (probably valued at more than $1 million an acre) over to public land trusts to prevent...
Karla Bonoff and Livingston Taylor come "Home for the Holidays" with what Ray's the Roof Productions calls a "seasonally spiced concert" at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Saturday, Dec. 16. Ray's the Roof is partnering with Next Stage Arts, KOOL-FM, and Falcetti Pianos to bring this show to Bellows Falls. "These are quintessential performers," said Ezra Veitch of Ray's the Roof Productions in a news release. "Both are superb songwriters, and both really know how to connect with audiences.
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