I found Karl Meyer's Viewpoint [“Failed salmon program doesn't deserve new life,” Oct. 12] to be grossly inaccurate.
I think it would be better suited for publication in the National Enquirer.
Karl, you might want to consider working for that paper.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
What does fossil-fuel stock divestment have in common with the closure of Vermont Yankee? Three state senators claim the answer is simple - bad government. Sens. Dick Mazza, D-Grand Isle; Robert Starr, D-Essex/Orleans; and Peg Flory, R-Rutland have penned a letter sharply criticizing Gov. Peter Shumlin's push to divest the state's pension fund from investments in coal and ExxonMobil stocks. In doing so, they draw a straight line from divestment to the state's - and Shumlin's - long-standing, staunch opposition...
With last year's passage of Act 164, cities and towns across the state will be deciding if they want to opt in to allowing recreational cannabis sales. The complex and dense bill still has a long road ahead before we have a clear vision of what recreational sales will look like in practice. Due to delays at the state level, the state's Cannabis Control Board has not yet provided us with any promised clarifications. Its members were appointed in late...
In January and February, the Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., is displaying work by self-taught artist Jeffrey Reddick. Reddick's Putney connection comes through a 10-year correspondence with Gordon Hayward. In 1967, aged 16, Reddick and his five siblings experienced the violent death of their parents at their father's hand. In 1983, Reddick, by then an ex-Marine, was convicted for assault with a deadly weapon and has since been serving a life sentence at a medium security prison in North...
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