BRATTLEBORO-Windham County educators and community members have been quick to stand up for diversity, equity,
Selectboard members were all ears at an April 8 "listening session" and spent most of...
BRATTLEBORO-U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard...
BELLOWS FALLS-Longtime area educator Kate Kane has been named the new principal of Central Elementary...
The State Board of Libraries Geographic Naming Committee unanimously voted down a petition to rename a brook in Townshend after former resident Susanna Toby. Board member Linda Saarinjoki made the motion to reject the petition with an explanation attached. “We're in favor of changing the name, but not to Susanna Toby,” Saarinjoki said. Like a core sample marking the Earth's history of volcanos, floods, forest fires, and fossils in compact layers of rock and sediment, the June 17 public hearing...
As a member of and communications director for the Vermont Energy Partnership, I have been vocal in my support for the continuation for Vermont Yankee. Regarding the negative impact of Vermont Yankee closure: what Gary Sachs [“As Vermont moves to green power, VY won't be missed,” Letters, May 8] dismisses as PR spin, I regard as prudent energy planning. VY provides something no other single, in-state power generator supplies: a large quantity of market-cost, low-carbon electricity. As Vermont progresses toward...
The Gallery at the Garden in downtown Brattleboro features two new exhibits for the month of November: The Golden Cage, an exhibit of photographs and interviews focused on Vermont's dairy farmers and migrant workers, and The Beauty of Relaxation, with creations by Maureen Mansfield. The gallery is located at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden, home of Strolling of the Heifers, at 157 Main St. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except during special events at...
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