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...
Visitors to town often ask, “What are those huge, old, buildings covered with slate on Birge Street?” Those familiar with local history know that these longstanding structures, considered to be the largest group of slate-sheathed buildings in the United States, were once owned by the Estey Organ Company. At one point, the company was one of the world's largest organ manufacturers, employing more than 700 employees and craftspeople. Each organ they created proclaimed in fine black print that it was...
Graeme King, of King Boatworks in Putney, has been hard at work in recent months building an ark. No, King doesn't have the skinny on another great flood. As it happens, he's building the ark at the request of Opera Theatre of Weston co-producers Lise Messier and Nan Nall, who plan to put it to work as set design for their production of Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood) by Benjamin Britten. The company will celebrate the centennial of the British composer's...
I urge all Vermonters to ask their state senators and representatives to push the Death With Dignity Bill out of committee and let the full Legislature debate the issue. The bills, H.274 and S.103, follow the precedent set by passage over 10 years ago of the law in Oregon. This is not a religious issue, or one about slippery slopes or euthanasia. It will not disadvantage the disabled or the elderly. It's simply about choice. It's about allowing an individual...
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