BRATTLEBORO — Why do the vast majority of pro-Vermont Yankee pieces printed herewith emanate from New Hampshire?
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
It's safe to say there's no love lost between the state of Vermont and Entergy, owner of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. But when the time came to weigh in on Entergy's attempts to build a second spent fuel storage facility at the Vernon property, it wasn't the state raising the most ruckus - it was the local planning commission. The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) last week aired detailed concerns about how the company chose the proposed site for long-term...
At this time of year, people are concerned about how their tax dollars are being spent. Vermont teachers are struggling to keep their contracts and jobs in the face of mounting opposition from school supervisory unions that are reluctant to meet the teachers' demands. Undoubtedly, teacher salaries are at the heart of the problem. There is not enough money available to educate our children and provide for the many social services that people require. So where is the money going...
“Sports is the toy department of life.” That quote, often attributed to the late sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith, refers to the tag, the Toy Department, that got stuck onto sports staffs at newspapers and other media outlets for decades afterward. For the past two decades, author Bill Littlefield, host of National Public Radio's “Only A Game,” has been working to prove Red Smith wrong. His weekly program shows the truth of an oft-repeated aphorism of recent years in...
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