RE: “Grateful for book's shout-out to Shadis,” [Letters, May 9].
Wow, Peter Alexander, you and Ray Shadis have discovered the dastardly secret that Entergy is a for-profit corporation, out to use the free-market system to earn the best return it can for its shareholders.
Gasp.
Wonder where all you anti-nukers will be when the lights go out in Brattleboro and your energy bills skyrocket.
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Good day, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! The Arctic has been unleashed into southern Vermont. Actually, thanks to a large ridge of high pressure over Alaska and northwestern North America, a “cross-polar” flow has been established. This flow is pulling frigid Siberian air over the North Pole and down into New England. So say hello to Siberia! Actually, you'll be saying hello to it for the entire week, so with that, let's jump into the daily...
Lisa Merton and Alan Dater's new documentary, Burned, is excellent in many ways, though weak in a few. Arlene Distler's review of the film captures a lot accurately but is also flawed on a couple of main points. Their task has not been an easy one. The film covers a lot of ground: southeastern U.S. clear-cut logging that fuels huge electricity-producing plants in Europe; Berlin, N.H., answering its economic woes by hosting New England's biggest biomass power plant; the community...
This April, student work from Dover, NewBrook, Jamaica, Townshend, and Wardsboro schools will be on display at the Moore Free Library and Crowell Gallery. Unified Arts teachers in the West River and River Valley school districts have been collaborating in connection with Vermont's Red Clover books. The Red Clover Book Award is designed for children in kindergarten through fourth grade. Each year, thousands of Vermont school children read the 10 nominated picture books and vote for their favorite in the...
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