BRATTLEBORO — RE: “V-Why?” [Letters, Sept. 25].
Why do the vast majority of anti-Vermont Yankee protesters emanate from outside Vermont?
Nancy Braus, a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. Since she submitted this piece,
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Jeanne Deyo says she always wanted to help in a soup kitchen. So the minute a former minister of the First Baptist Church suggested that the congregation host one, Deyo was committed. “We saw a need,” she says. The weekly meal was named in honor of Deyo's grandmother, Grace Thomas Deyo Wood, who died one month shy of her 100th birthday on May 21, 2006. “She would make something out of nothing,” Deyo remembers of her grandmother's cooking. In Deyo's...
Charles Dudley Warner, editor of the Hartford Courant and a good friend of Mark Twain, once remarked that while everybody talks about the weather, nobody seems to do anything about it. Today, as extreme weather becomes increasingly common and the science of climate change more widely accepted, many people are wondering whether there is anything they can, in fact, do about the weather. This month, The Nature Museum at Grafton presents two events that take an optimistic, can-do approach to...
In this land of the rich, the corporates, the bullies, the disempowered, and the ultra-regional, here's a not-so-hearty welcome to Messrs. Kerry, Lew, Brennan, and Hagel, the four old white guys who've been summoned to state, treasury, intelligence, and “defense” posts in Washington, D.C. You know, it's a pity we also don't have a new (old) Harry Reid yet, to replace the Senate majority leader in recognition of his shabby work on filibuster “reform,” the Amgen theft of $500 million...
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