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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Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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What started as a “third-rate burglary” ended with the resignation of a president of the United States. On Sunday, Oct. 22, at 4 p.m., the 1976 film All the President's Men will be shown free of charge on the big screen at the Latchis Theatre, followed by a panel discussion on the importance today of investigative journalism. On the panel will be Randy Holhut, deputy editor of The Commons; Susan Smallheer, long-time reporter for the Rutland Herald; and Kate Casa,
There is plenty to criticize in Tom Salmon's ode to Vermont Yankee, but two paragraphs are particularly odious. He writes, “Eight years ago […] I began to notice the heat being turned up on Vermont Yankee. A rather fierce ideological battle from the hard left ensued. Some were Vermonters, but the vast majority lived in other states. […] “However, in Windham County, a hardy band of citizens said, 'We want to be heard on these issues.' And so the nonprofit...
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