It's about time! I've had enough of institutions like the Brattleboro Retreat stealing our hard-earned tax dollars in the name of “mental health.”
We should all applaud whistleblower Thomas Joseph and anyone like him. Well done!
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...
There's not much that Connecticut Yankee and Vermont Yankee have in common, other than their names and the fact that they're both nuclear plants that no longer produce power. But a recent field trip to the Connecticut site provided several members of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VNDCAP) with some important insights. For VNDCAP Chair Kate O'Connor, the most powerful impression was Connecticut Yankee's reclamation by nature - and her realization that something similar might one day happen...
I'm voting for Carolyn Partridge and Leslie Goldman for state representatives for the Windham-3 district. Carolyn Partridge is well known, while Leslie Goldman has my vote because of her support for public health, climate change, and small businesses. These three issues are central to the challenges of the next two years. I've known Leslie since our children were in middle school together; she is smart, hard working, and a careful and compassionate human being. She knows this community well -
If photography could save the world, In-Sight would be leading the way. An upcoming online auction will help community members near and far support the program. As an educational and empowering program for youth through art, it has few peers in the area, or anywhere else for that matter. In-Sight's mission is to offer students “a creative voice and outlet, an opportunity to experience success, tools for self-awareness and self-worth, and encourages them to become actively engaged in their communities,”
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