This year, 2015, is the year of eyes wide open, and Vermont's General Assembly needs to question the use of Holtec's on-site dry cask storage system for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station's nuclear waste solution.
After decades of research, and billions of dollars spent, no radioactive waste has been relocated, and treated, and placed in a safe and permanent disposal location anywhere.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
After complaints from parents and child care providers that young children were being left out of efforts to provide COVID-19 test kits to Vermonters [“Petition calls for state testing for youngest Vermonters,” News, Jan. 5], the state announced on Jan. 7 that it is launching what it calls the Tests for Tots program. This program will immediately provide rapid antigen COVID-19 test kits to regulated child-care providers across Vermont. As described by the state, the new program builds on the...
We unloaded the kids from the minivan after our weekly family date night at the pizzeria. After we shuffled them all inside and started to wash the tomato sauce off them, we sat them in front of the TV to watch their favorite show: America's Funniest Home Videos. My 2-year-old calls it “People Falling Down” and my 1-year-old calls it “Cats.” Both are accurate. With them snuggled in and clean, I thought I could make a rare pre-bedtime escape. “I'm...
The Brattleboro Concert Choir's year-long celebration of director Susan Dedell's 25 years on the podium continues with a community sing of the Mozart Requiem on Sunday, March 1, at the River Garden on Main Street, at 3 p.m. The Requiem in D minor, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart just before his death in 1791, has always been shrouded in a bit of mystery. Commissioned by an unknown benefactor, Mozart was convinced it was to herald his own demise. So obsessed...
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