This is to all the anti-Vermont Yankee people: What about the weather station they generously pay for on the two-way radio?
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
It's not every day that you hear of something that's still going strong after 100 years. But this summer, the Green Mountain Camp for Girls is celebrating its 100th year with reunions, shared memories, singing, feasting, dancing, sports, and yes, s'mores. It is also mounting a Centennial Campaign to raise $100,000 for capital improvements. The camp seems to inspire the girls who go there. “We're helping people recapture a very good time in their lives,” said current camp director, former...
Pandemic or not - the creative sector matters. In Vermont, it supports 41,000 jobs and contributes $1 billion to the state's economy. “Creatives account for about 9 percent of the Vermont workforce, and it is important their significant impact is understood amongst themselves as well as recognized by other economic sectors,” Robert McBride, coordinator for the Southern Vermont Zone of the Vermont Creative Network, said in a news release. The Southern Vermont Zone includes Bennington and Windham counties. Its leadership...
It was 1942. My father joined the Navy and moved my mother, my sister, and me from New Jersey to Rhode Island to be near my mother's family. All I knew was that everything I knew simply disappeared: friends, school, playground, and neighborhood. I have a vivid memory of walking into a new school, staring with my scared eyes at a blackboard filled with gibberish. New Jersey schools did not, at the time, teach cursive to second-grade beginners. And my...
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