VERNON-Liberal, progressive, conservative, orthodox, right wing, left wing - descriptive words that we use to...
SAXTONS RIVER-On Tuesday, Nov. 5, I will be voting for Leslie Goldman and Michelle Bos-Lun...
BRATTLEBORO-Dear Brattleboro Voter, You will be receiving an absentee ballot in the mail for the...
BRATTLEBORO-We were thrilled to discover Mollie Burke would be our representative to the State Legislature...
The state has lost a long-running battle over emergency planning at Vermont Yankee. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 23 denied Vermont's appeals of federal rulings that had allowed the shut-down plant's emergency operations to shrink dramatically as of mid-April. Regardless of federal action, state officials may have found their own way to continue enhanced emergency operations in the towns around the Vernon plant, having announced last month their intention to bill Entergy for such activities. But the NRC's rulings...
The proposal to shrink the state college system seems sudden. But in fact, it continues a process begun in the 1970s, when land grant and other public colleges and universities began charging substantial tuition. And, from the 1979-80 recession, tuitions increased steadily as states reduced support for higher education. Until then, states adhered to the spirit of the Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862, offering higher education affordable to “the sons of toil.” No longer. In 2019, state...
After a wide-ranging search, Colleen Harris has been selected to direct the graduating students in the ProTrack Training Program's end-of-year performance at the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA). This contemporary circus performance is the final Capstone Project for professionally ready students attending the three-year professional program at NECCA. NECCA Cofounder Serenity Smith Forchion said in a news release that Harris's extensive directorial experience in theater, along with a connection to contemporary circus, made her “an ideal directorial choice.”
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