Certainly, Vermont should not be adding a dirty-fossil-fuel plant! How about a solar facility with non-toxic aqueous battery storage instead?
Keep moving forward. Don't backslide!
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
Enacting measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, while necessary, has also put large sectors of the economy on hold. Over several weeks, Governor Phil Scott has issued multiple executive orders: from closing schools, to directing restaurants to provide take-out only, to telling Vermonters to stay home and work remotely if possible. On Monday, Scott issued an addendum to a March 25 executive order, asking for people entering the state to self-quarantine for 14 days. This order restricting travel,
Vida King perpetuates the myth that masking prevents the spread of virus and other unseen pathogens. Viruses, smaller than bacteria, are by definition microbes and not visible to the naked eye or under an ordinary microscope. Viruses are only visible under an electron microscope. I'm wondering how writer Vida King expects a mere mask to prevent the spread of viruses. Ms. King also seems to think that individuals have the power to keep their neighbor's body healthy. In reality, your...
April's First Wednesday event at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., is “The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America,” and takes place live, April 6 at 7 p.m. Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander will join Christal Brown, associate professor of dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience. Diana Whitney's edited work, You Don't Have to Be...
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