BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.
A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
How did the Robb Family Farm's maple syrup end up on actress Brooke Shields' holiday gift list in People magazine? “Dumb luck, I guess,” says Helen Robb, who runs the farm with her husband, Charlie, and her son, Charlie Jr. In any event, having a celebrity plug their maple syrup in a national magazine with an estimated readership of 46 million people has meant the Robbs are selling a lot of syrup. Helen said Shields never set foot on her...
A combined show of artists Gil Perry and Charles Norris-Brown, entitled “Distant Thunder,” will be up at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River through June 16. Perry, of Springfield, Vt., will show selections from his work in landscape oils and from graphite fantasy drawings. His paintings reflect his interest in capturing the variations of light in nature. “For the past 27 years, I have been working in the landscape tradition of painting in the open air, exploring new ways to...
My colleague Richard January wrote about the safety of Vermont Yankee's used fuel, saying it is safe in the fuel pool. He is right. Here's why. In operation a reactor gets 93 percent of its heat from atom splitting and 7 percent from the decay of the radioactive atom splitting pieces (fission products or other atoms). When the atom splitting stops (reactor shutdown), that heat stops immediately. The heat from the fission products continues. The fission products are radioactive, which...
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