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!
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Ian Graham is the new director of the Rockingham Free Public Library. Graham comes to the RFPL from Rhode Island where, for the past five years, he was associate librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in Providence. He was previously director of library collections for a decade at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where he still has a home. He started at the RFPL on Nov. 1. How's it going? “I think it's going great. You might...
Retiring Gov. Peter Shumlin and his outgoing administration promoted “all-inclusive population-based payment” for hospital and medical diagnosis, care, and treatment during recent public forums about the Vermont All-Payer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model. They did not say how much this all-inclusive payment will cost. I asked at the Rutland forum and learned that it will cost $4,960 annually per commercially insured patient and $8,165 annually per Medicare patient. They also did not say that “capitation, now referred to as all-inclusive...
SAXTONS RIVER-"Semitones," artist Ricky McEachern's new gallery show at Main Street Arts (MSA), 32 Main St., opens with a reception on Saturday, April 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. Semitones will feature several new oil paintings by McEachern. The show will run from Thursday, April 25, to May 12. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. The paintings will be available for purchase. McEachern said that, with these works, he sought to express ideas inspired by...
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