BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Brattleboro Union High School is reporting two of its students were treated last week for drug overdoses in the building. “We experienced two separate medical emergencies on campus involving the use of substances possibly laced with fentanyl,” interim Principal Cassie Damkoehler has emailed the families of 800 grade 9-12 students from the towns of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Putney, and Vernon. In both instances, the students were seen to be experiencing health problems and, as a result, received immediate medical care,
Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls is set to welcome a romance novelist and a maven of marijuana etiquette. Local novelist Eileen Charbonneau will share her knowledge of and love for romance novels on Aug. 17 - Bookstore Romance Day - at 11 a.m. This is a day designed to give independent bookstores an opportunity to celebrate romance fiction - its books, readers, and writers - and to strengthen the relationships between bookstores and the romance community. Charbonneau's historical novels...
I support Carolyn Partridge for assistant judge in Windham County. Carolyn's experience as a legislator recommends her highly for the office. As a committee chair in the House of Representatives for 14 years, she rightly earned a reputation for fairness, competence, and compassion. These qualities will serve her well on the bench. Her service as assistant judge will bring honor to the bench, justice to those who appear before her, and competence to the county she well serves.
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