BELLOWS FALLS — Elayne Clift should put the blame where it belongs: on herself and the few others who interfered with the work of public officials who had no agenda, but were led by the facts to an unhappy but inevitable conclusion.
Her interference caused months of disruption, heartache, and unnecessary tax dollars to be wasted. Her entitled behavior belongs at her doorstep.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
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Vermont's congressional delegation is asking federal regulators to “give local stakeholders a seat at the table” when nuclear plants decommission. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., joined a dozen other legislators in writing to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as that agency begins developing new regulations for shut-down plants. As Vermont Yankee transitions toward decommissioning, a frequent complaint has been the lack of participation for host communities and state governments. So that is an...
I have a landline and a rotary phone on my kitchen counter, underneath a kitchen cabinet with an orange sticker on the inside of the door - it's from the 1980s. It has the telephone number for Rescue Inc. I yearn to be able to call Rescue for our next medical emergency but, to quote Bob Dylan, "the pump don't work, 'cause the vandals took the handles." The Brattleboro Selectboard's decision to choose the fire-EMS model and to reject Rescue...
The Stone Church, 210 Main St., presents a “Vermont Carnival Breakdown” with the Celebration Brass Band and VT Shakedown on Friday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. The night of cajun brass and Afro-beat funk will include some cajun-themed food specials. VT Shakedown plays funk and Afro-beat, with a tight rhythm section interacting with ripping horn solos, polyrhythms interwoven with vocals, hypnotic bass and guitar lines, and funked-up drums. Celebration Brass Band emerged in 2009 under the leadership of New Orleans...
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