BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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In 1892, the Vermont Legislature, heeding a call from Dr. Henry Holton and other concerned residents in town, incorporated the pioneering Brattleboro Home for the Aged and Disabled. “Physical comfort and care are combined with a social freedom and variety that are unusual,” historian Mary Cabot went on to write in Annals of Brattleboro. “The number of elderly people who look forward to the age at which they can be eligible to this Home is a witness to its happy...
The Estey Organ Museum will provide a creative singing and musical history experience, as well as bring the many health benefits of singing for seniors in Windham County starting this May for seven weeks of musical classes. No singing experience is required, and the program is free for adults aged 60 and older. According to a news release, a Creative Aging Grant from the Vermont Arts Council, supporting community-building in and through the arts for older adults in Vermont, was...
I'm in the process of learning about Enphase Energy and its IQ8, which advances the technology behind its microinverters and batteries to become grid-agnostic and, eventually, allow for non-grid usage. In the not terribly-long-from-now future, we should be able to make our own microgrids without Green Mountain Power's involvement at all. Zola Electric has completed field testing with the Enphase products in Africa, and the technology looks tremendously promising.
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