RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
The urine collectors of southeast Windham County have a new place to deposit their contributions. On July 17, the Rich Earth Institute held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open their new urine depot, located in the former Estey Organ Factory complex on Birge Street. The nonprofit, EPA-funded REI, co-founded in 2012 by Kim Nace and Abe Noe-Hays, “engages in research, education, and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource in order to conserve water, prevent...
Due to a performer testing positive for COVID-19, The Baker Street Readers postponed their performances of An Evening with Jeeeves & Wooster from Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 30 and 31, to Friday and Saturday, Jan. 19 and 20. The show will still be performed at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, 139 Main St. The Readers are most known for reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries but are changing things up with another of England's famed literary duos. Bertie Wooster and his trusty...
With recordbreaking drought and heat waves this summer, the relationship between nuclear power and water has become crystal clear. Nuclear power plants use massive amount of water for cooling. Nuclear reactors in the U.S., including Vermont Yankee, were forced to reduce power or shut down this July because the river water was too hot going into the reactors to cool them sufficiently. And if the water is too hot going in, it's going to be hot coming out. Fifty to...
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