All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Details about the event appear in a news story this issue. BRATTLEBORO-On June 14, Flag...
BENNINGTON, VERMONT / ZIKHRON YAAKOV, ISRAEL-The Shalom Alliance is working to advance the cause of...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons has recently published a number of commentaries and letters to the editor regarding...
Good day to you, denizens of southeastern Vermont, I hope that you had a peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! Aside from some mixed rain, sleet, and snow late Thursday night in elevations above 1,000 to 1,500 feet in the southern Green Mountains, we can expect fair and seasonable weather to dominate the upcoming week. Thanks to a strong Pacific jet stream, we've been in the doldrums in terms of our weather pattern. This jet stream has caused mainly a west...
It might well be that I spend too much energy and care on interactions with people - some actual friends, some who are nearly strangers to me - whom I encounter on social media (mostly Facebook). These online connections run the gamut politically and culturally, and in terms of their spiritual lives, too. Most of the time, I'm grateful for, or at least tolerant of, those differences. Diversity really is a source of richness, of course. But it's events like...
The Vermont Jazz Center will host a 10-week session of classes beginning the week of Sept. 18. Courses include an expanded youth program for ages 10 to 16, an ensemble led by bebop master Scott Mullett (Blue Note Ensemble), Anna Patton's popular Soubrette Choir, the VJC's Latin Jazz Ensemble, and Julian Gerstin's Afro-Caribbean Percussion & Rhythms. A new offering this year is Ben Carr's Jazz Uke Ensemble. “Consider joining a combo and learning to perform classic jazz compositions while being...
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