BRATTLEBORO-The Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy of the People will lead audiences to question "the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will head to Windham County to present two cutting-edge music presentations...
BRATTLEBORO-Throughout the month of April, River Gallery School will exhibit "Places We Know: Local Landscapes...
BRATTLEBORO-ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., is supporting the Vermont Reads community program by...
Vermont Yankee's radioactive spent fuel soon will be on the move. In April, a contractor will begin loading the shut-down Vernon nuclear plant's fuel into sealed casks, which will be placed on a concrete pad. The fuel is not going far: The pad is a short walk from the plant's reactor building, where thousands of spent fuel assemblies currently are stored. But the move is important for two reasons: It's central to a proposed sale of Vermont Yankee, and it...
Most likely, the name Zachary Stephens has a familiar ring if you've read the Brattleboro Reformer at all this past decade. Or if you were a student taking classes at the In-Sight Photography Project. Or if you knew someone who was. Stephens, the Reformer's principal photojournalist for several years, has served as program director at In-Sight over the past decade. Two years ago, he decided to get his master's degree. He pursued this goal while raising his family and still...
Just as Vermont is the state that launched Bernie Sanders onto a national stage, we also have an opportunity to nominate candidates for governor and lieutenant governor who have bold, progressive ideas. Matt Dunne and David Zuckerman are both fighters for a sustainable and just future. Some ideas they both share include: • an understanding of the existential peril posed by climate disruption. Vermonters tend to pay attention to weather. We know the extreme heat and drought of this summer...
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