RE: “Can a bicycle replace the family car?” [News, Nov. 7]:
A spot of inspiring news! If people in Vermont can ride bikes even in the winter, we certainly can here in California!
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...
Despite detailed misgivings, the Vermont Public Service Board has granted Louisiana-based Entergy Corp. a required Certificate of Public Good (CPG) to continue operating its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon until the end of the year. “In its 12 years of operating in Vermont, Entergy VY has failed to comply with numerous Board orders and statutory requirements,” the board said in its March 28 ruling. In its 98-page final order, the three-member PSB board wrote that granting the nuclear...
To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many changes in people's lives is an understatement. It has certainly diminished the frequency with which we see friends and even family. We have learned to plan ahead with great care and to efficiently run errands less frequently. We have also learned to improvise meals, projects, and personal entertainment based on whatever we have on hand. In short, we have learned to simplify many tasks to minimize going out in public and...
Mount Island has announced winners of the digital magazine's Lucy Terry Prince Prize, for rural poets of color. Grand prize winner is Brittny Ray Crowell, for the poem “Blood Petition: A Prayer of Reckoning.” The runner up poems are “The Big Day” by Jordan Charlton and “Can You Taste The Ivory Coast Chocolate” by Mervyn Seivwright. “During times such as these, poetry is often one of the vehicles that reminds us of the importance of bearing witness,” writes Shanta Lee...
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