The only thing I don't believe, Susan Odegard, is that you are not an accomplished person. Wow - you have found beauty in yourself and the world and have articulated it so well.
Thanks for this gift of an article.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
Vermont Yankee's plan to send radioactive wastewater cross-country to Idaho “will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment,” federal regulators have decided. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission hasn't yet given the official green light for 200,000 gallons of water to be trucked from the Vernon plant to US Ecology's disposal facility near Grand View, Idaho. But the NRC's environmental findings, announced April 3, show that the federal agency is now comfortable with Entergy's assurances that...
I'm coming up on my 16th year working for the Windham County Sheriff's Office. This story became a cornerstone for my philosophy on how to treat people, first as a sheriff's deputy and now as a sheriff. When asked what a sheriff's deputy does, most people would first assume law enforcement. Yet that represents only about a quarter of the work that those of us in the Windham County Sheriff's Office do. In 2005, I was assigned to transport an...
Brattleboro will once again be host to one of the longest on-going Dawn Dances in the country, held twice a year on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends for up to 400 dancers at the Gibson-Aiken Center, 207 Main St. Featuring three callers and three bands for the contra dance portion, which runs from 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, until 7 a.m., on Monday, May 25, this dance draws people of all ages from Maine to California, northern Vermont...
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