Vernon should focus on baseload power.
Decentralized intermittent generation gobbles up open lands. Vernon should preserve its history of agricultural and open lands.
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...
WEST TOWNSHEND-After five years of fundraising and planning, the restoration of the historic Follett Stone Arch Bridge here has started. The 110-year-old bridge is one of six dry stone masonry arch bridges in Townshend - all on the National Register of Historic Places and built between 1894 and 1910 by Civil War veteran James Otis Follett. Follett served in Company D of the 16th Vermont Infantry Regiment volunteers and fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he became...
Brattleboro residents have a chance to bring a fresh perspective to the Selectboard by electing Ian Goodnow, a young, committed, energetic, and thoughtful member of the community. Ian fell in love with Brattleboro before #lovebrattleboro was a hashtag, and he fell in love with my daughter Ruth 10 years before that, at the University of Vermont. He's currently in his second year of reading law at Costello, Valente & Gentry, a path he chose instead of law school, both to...
On Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. Get Thee to the Funnery Shakespeare Camps present the documentary, Qualities of “Mercy?” It will be streamed on YouTube at bit.ly/595-shakespeare. In 2020, the Vermont youth camp took on actors from India and tackled the problematic Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice. Campers used the text to confront prejudice, violence, and hate speech. They dealt with the pandemic lockdown, responded to the Black Lives Matter movement, and put on a play. From distances spanning...
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