Opposition to Vermont Yankee is more like a religion than a war.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Good day to you! The coming week is going to feature mainly sunny skies, warmer-than-normal temperatures, and low humidity. In other words, there's not too much to discuss this week. However, even with this week's dearth of atmospheric activity, such a respite may be coming to a close by the time we get into the middle of next week. Our pattern is beginning to look more active, with cooler and wetter risks entering our daily sensible weather mix. In other...
WILLIAMSVILLE-Rock River Players present Jean Genet's edgy, surrealist drama The Maids, the first weekend in November (Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2) in Williamsville, and the second weekend (Friday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, Nov. 9) in Brattleboro. French dramatist Genet originally wrote The Maids in 1947, though he had changed the ending in subsequent iterations. It's since been produced widely across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States on film, and even on Danish television, with a range...
Michael Knapp is a software developer and entrepreneur who is passionate about social justice. GUILFORD-As a Jewish Vermonter who has spent the past three decades working to improve our synagogue's safety and counter local antisemitism, I feel compelled to clarify that concerns about local antisemitism are neither unfounded nor a mere reflex. They are deeply anchored in the stark realities of our history and the present-day situation. Recent letters to the editor, including those by Jewish authors, deny the reality...
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