The Windham County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is attempting to change the way that local law...
HomeShare Vermont, a nonprofit that connects people with extra space in their homes to those...
ROCKINGHAM-Rural gardeners and farmers have long known that the common earthworm (also known as the...
EAST DUMMERSTON-A three-alarm fire on Aug. 16 has destroyed a Windham County agricultural landmark. A...
As operations chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District, Frank Fedele oversees a $47 million budget, 33 flood-management projects and 116 recreation areas. Lately, though, he and his staff have been hearing a lot about one particular Army Corps property – Townshend Dam. And the conversations have not been pleasant, with town officials joining state and federal legislators in raising economic and environmental concerns about the site. Fedele said the Army Corps, after hearing from Vermont's...
Ever since the Reagan administration, and probably before that, we have been subjected to the Republican/right-wing Democratic dismantling of the role of government in the lives of ordinary people. Progressive activists have spent decades struggling for the sort of country where ordinary people could have some agency at a time when the U.S. was becoming more of a playground for the wealthiest every year. It was abundantly clear that we would never be able to rely on Washington to use...
On Friday, June 11, the parking lot of Epsilon Spires will transform into an open-air movie theater for the second installment of the 2021 Backlot Cinema Series. The evening features films that use anaglyph 3D technology, a process of combining images tinted red and blue to create a stereoscopic effect when viewed with special glasses. Programming Director Jamie Mohr said in a news release that she was inspired by how 3D films “allow the audience to actively participate in the...
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