BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon has been the subject of one of the longest and most intensive anti-nuke campaigns in the region. Even before the plant was constructed on the banks of the Connecticut River in 1972, anti-nuclear activists demonstrated against Vermont Yankee with a fervor that bordered on religious conviction. Anti-nuke groups formed - the New England Coalition, Citizens Awareness Network, Shut It Down Affinity Group, and the Safe and Green Campaign - and environmental organizations...
Ballots have been mailed to the members of the Vermont State Employees Credit Union (VSECU), seeking votes to support a merger with the New England Federal Credit Union. As a 40-year member of VSECU, I was curious about what this merger could mean for me and the family of VSECU members. VSECU is a Vermont state-chartered financial institution, and as such, it is locally owned by its members, who have control over how it is managed. I did a little...
When the call came out last fall from the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center to create an “Artful Ice Shanty,” a group of nine Brattleboro-West Arts members got inspired. Their shanty would be a part of the village that would be on view at the Retreat Farm across Route 30 from the Retreat Meadows, a popular spot for ice fishing and actual functioning ice shanties. “A full-on winter festival celebrating art, culture, and the great outdoors, coinciding with the 100th...
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