All mining uses equipment often powered by petroleum-fuel machinery. Mining uranium requires disturbing one-millionth the earth of mining coal for similar energy production.
Meg Mott, Ph.D. is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself...
Ross Momaney (rmm-art.com) is a visual artist and arts educator. By blending these roles, he...
Michelle Bos-Lun and Richard Nelson are state representatives who sit across the table from each...
Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and...
Less than a month after their third appeal was turned down, two neighbors of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust's proposed affordable housing community on Alice Holway Drive have filed a fourth appeal - this time to the Vermont Supreme Court. Laura Campbell and Deborah Lazar have made the appeal, filed by attorney Hal Stevens, protesting the planned 25 units of mixed-income housing in two buildings on land on Alice Holway Drive next to the Putney Community Garden and Putney...
BRATTLEBORO-As local and global understanding of Israeli genocide against Palestinians has grown over the past eight months, and opposition to the actions of Israel builds, there have been many words printed in these pages expressing a feeling of Jewish unsafety. One writer objects to hearing the term "the Zionist project" - a term long used by historians to describe the modern political and demographic movement that created the Jewish-majority state of Israel - as antisemitic, and somehow "trickling down" to...
BRATTLEBORO-Theatre Adventure invites the public to help celebrate its 20th anniversary with the screening of A Ballad of Belonging, a documentary honoring Theatre Adventure's past, present, and future, on Friday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St. Some of Theatre Adventure's actors will don the costumes of their favorite characters from previous shows. They will engage with the audience before the screening and participate in a brief talkback session afterward. A Ballad of Belonging is...
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