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!
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Twenty residents at Groundworks Shelter (formerly Morningside Shelter) were displaced on Sept. 10, after a small fire broke out in a clothes dryer. No one was hurt, but the noontime fire resulted in extensive smoke damage to the Royal Road shelter. According to a news release, Groundworks' staff mobilized quickly and temporarily relocated residents of the shelter to the dormitory that is used for the winter warming shelter on the Winston Prouty (formerly Austine School) campus. The relocation could last...
I found BDCCs recent commentary, written in opposition to the town's consideration of a 1-percent local-option tax for property-tax relief, to be quite scattered and confusing. In it, we are told that “another local tax is a short-term and shortsighted fix to a decades-long problem.” But no one imagines this revenue to “fix” anything - it's meant to shift a small amount of burden away from property taxpayers, who now pay 85 percent of the entire operating needs of our...
PUTNEY-"Metalsum: Art Inspired by Nature and Imagined Through Found Objects" by Jane Kolias is now on exhibit at the Putney Public Library through Feb. 28. Kolias creates rustic metal art from found objects. Her previous work in metalsmithing includes jewelry fabrication and welding. Her finished wall pieces involve many elements intricately combined. They take on "a spirited playfulness" say organizers - cutlery is welded to form palm fronds, a sunflower form is created from screwdrivers welded to an iron agricultural...
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