ATHENS — “This is not normal,” a New York City resident observed the other day about the polar vortex, snow, ice, then spring-like days followed by more snow and more ice. “The Earth is off its axis or something.”
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Rain fell hard at dawn on the Fourth of July, and it looked then as though there was no way a parade would be held in Brattleboro. However, the organizers at “By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth” had faith in the weather forecast and that the rain would let up by the 10 a.m. parade time. They made the call that the show would go on a little after 8 a.m. Roughly an hour later participants started gathering at Brattleboro...
Our corner of the state could be at the start of the biggest industrial project in Vermont's history: the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee. Someday, right across the street from the Vernon Elementary School, cranes and bulldozers will be taking down radiated buildings and digging up acres of toxic dirt at the nuclear power station. The complex was built in the late 1960s and early '70s, before the laws regulating toxic and hazardous materials were enacted. No one knows for sure...
Stone Church Arts brings Pete's Posse, a roots trio to heat up a winter's eve at the stone church on 20 Church St., on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Dillon Walsh of The Vermont Standard wrote, “For three people who initially weren't going to become a band, some things, like their chemistry together, were meant to be.” Pete's Posse is composed of Pete Sutherland (fiddle, piano, banjo and vocals), Oliver Scanlon (fiddle, mandolin, dobro, foot percussion and vocals) and...
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