Alimony reform is much needed. Vermont needs it more than any other state, considering the ex-spouse is allowed to get remarried and still receive the alimony. That is abhorrent.
Bad law is allowing too many people to take advantage.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
The first truck containing contaminated groundwater has departed from Vermont Yankee, and many more will follow. At a Feb. 25 meeting in Brattleboro, Entergy administrators disclosed that they have begun shipping the fluid - which is flowing with unexpected intensity into the plant's turbine building - to a disposal site in Tennessee. Officials have said the water is contaminated with relatively low levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. But as the liquid leaves the Vernon plant in quantities...
Student Art Month spotlights and gives public recognition to the outstanding visual art created by elementary, middle school, and high school students in Windham County. Sponsored by the Arts Council of Windham County, the month-long event spotlights more than 300 pieces of featured student work from 18 schools. Here's where some of the art can seen during the month of March: • Two-dimensional art by high-school students can be viewed at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden 157 Main St.,
With respect to the question of whether the $100,000 appropriated by Representative Annual Town Meeting for sustainability purposes be spent on a position or activities, I have perhaps a hypothetical question as to how Brattleboro approaches issues such as the following, which might give insight to the answer. On July 30, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $440,000 grant to the town to make critical water infrastructure improvements needed to support commercial development. The project,
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