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...
Tobacco Prevention Specialist Rolf Parker is unequivocal: “Juul tried to shut us down,” he said. Parker, who works with West River Valley Thrives and the Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition, set out to educate youth on the dangers of vaping by publicizing the dangers and the wide availability of the electronic cigarettes online using video and social-media outreach. Juul, the $16 billion company that manufactures the devices, claimed that Parker's efforts violate their trademarks and pressured YouTube and Facebook to remove...
Mainly Music Productions recently announced that Stephan Brandstatter, a local musician, composer, and percussionist, was awarded second place in the open age group (for entrants ages 12 and older) in Creative for Justice, a contest sponsored by the New England Arab American Organization (NEAAO). Selected from multiple dozens of entries, his composition “Sounds of Peace,” performed on pitched brass bowls, was called “soothingly peaceful” by the contest judges. It will be included on his debut CD to be released later...
I'm sad today because I just heard that Valerie Harper has passed. And I'm glad, because for a while I got to know her a little. Among the highlights of my almost 24-year CBS career was my assignment to sell shows produced by Mary Tyler Moore's company, MTM Enterprises, to audiences and advertisers. On more than one occasion, more than one person actually compared me to Mary Richards, Moore's character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. (Go figure - but...
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