BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A legacy of music” [Letters, June 5]:
Thank you, Jim Kurty, from the Burdo family. I'm thankful for the start you gave all four boys. Words fail me when I consider your involvement with decades of beginning musicians at three schools!
And thank you, Andy Davis, for speaking for us all.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
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Fired Brattleboro Union High School Principal Steven Perrin has filed a civil lawsuit against the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU), the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD), and its board members. A March 21 filing names the two entities as well as board members at the time of Perrin's firing and his subsequent hearing to appeal that action. Those defendants are Anne Beckman, Lana Dever, Michelle Luetjen Green, Emily Murphy Kaur, Tim Maciel, Robin Morgan, Shaun Murphy, Deborah Stanford, and Kelly...
Last month, Vermont Yankee completed the transfer of all spent fuel into dry-cask storage. It is noteworthy that Vermont Yankee accomplished this task without money from the Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund, which is well-positioned to support NorthStar's decommissioning project. Finishing the fuel transfer within budget and two years ahead of schedule invites the community's confidence in the overall decommissioning plan, and it lays a strong foundation for NorthStar's prompt, efficient decommissioning work. Site restoration should be completed in about 10...
The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) has collaborated with Vermont landscape painter Kathleen Kolb and Vermont poet and performer Verandah Porche to create a singularly beautiful 17-picture and poetry exhibit about the working forest for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC). The exhibit, called Shedding Light on the Working Forest, is opening at the museum on Oct. 2 and will run until Jan. 3, 2016. It combines Kolb's paintings of men working in the forests and in the mills with...
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