This is to all the anti-Vermont Yankee people: What about the weather station they generously pay for on the two-way radio?
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
As nature preserves go, the ridgeline property rising up from the West River as it straddles the towns of Dummerston, Brookline, and Newfane doesn't look much different from the rest of the vistas one sees while driving on Route 30 west of Brattleboro. Yet these 626 acres make up a parcel so biodiverse that it includes representatives of nearly every important species of flora and fauna in the Green Mountain State. It is one of the few large semi-wilderness areas...
I would happily make a sandwich, with mayo, on the floor of most breweries these days. They're as clean, if not cleaner, than hospitals, for the simple reason that a lack of sanitation is the quickest way to produce bad beer. Bad in terms of flavor, and badly behaved, too - beers that gush out of bottles like a garden hose run amok. Ray McNeill did things a little differently, in brewing as in life. For a while, he had...
In spring 2019, artist Madge Evers saw Emily Dickinson's “Herbarium” for the first time. Later that year, during a walk in Northampton, Massachusetts, Evers began to conceptualize a herbarium of her own. “There, in the cracks and along the sidewalk, plants were busting out all over,” Evers said in an interview with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) for the museum's blog, Art Loves Company. “Tendrils of frost grape vine were raising their arms, literally waving at me. Lush...
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