DUMMERSTON — On Oct. 27 in Montpelier, 64 people were arrested for non-violent civil disobedience at Gov. Peter Shumlin's office.
They were protesting his support for a fracked-gas pipeline in Vermont. The protest was organized by 350.org and other groups.
These activists deserve our thanks for their work to save the natural environment on which all life depends.
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...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
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This year's Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce's Person of the Year award went to not one person, but many. Chamber members honored the many Reformer Christmas Stocking board members on Jan. 28 with the chamber's Person (or in this case, Persons) of the Year award. Over its 78-year history of providing winter clothing to children, the volunteers behind the Christmas Stocking collected $3 million in funds, connected with families, purchased clothing, and organized comments from donors that appeared in the...
When an issue is discussed for a long time, one might experience fatigue. Or, as a prominent member of this community wrote to me, "Can we drop this issue? It happened. Let's please move on." But as Yogi Berra accurately predicted: "It ain't over till it's over." In point of fact, the Selectboard still needs to make a decision in about a month - on Tuesday, Sept. 19 - as to how emergency medical services will be delivered in Brattleboro.
Karla Baldwin frankly admits that she has difficulty describing Love and Information, the new play by Caryl Churchill that she is directing for Apron Theater. “It is easier to say what it is not,” she confesses. “Love and Information is a work that has no plot, no characters to speak of, and no development. In any concise way, it is even hard to say what the play precisely deals with. We're very far removed from the dramaturgy of realist dramas...
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