I'm looking forward to a day when dentistry offers a system of care rather than sporadic charity care for the many Vermonters who fall through the cracks.
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...
Having absorbed heavy criticism in recent weeks, the current and potential owners of Vermont Yankee are defending their plans to decommission the Vernon nuclear plant. In more than 130 pages of documents filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, attorneys for Entergy and NorthStar Group Services use phrases like “bald assertions,” “unfounded claims” and “pure speculation” to describe concerns raised by Vermont officials and the New England Coalition. And they argue that NorthStar, which wants to buy the plant from Entergy...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, commemorations are taking place across the country, but most especially across the Gulf South - and most particularly because of so much that changed and so much that didn't. New Orleans was left to fend for herself, the beautiful Crescent City punished for daring to be proudly Chocolate, its inhabitants strewn across the nation and disappeared forever by gentrification and White-ification. The hurricane made landfall in southern Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, and the combination...
Building on last year's exploration of acclaimed works of the Romantic canon through early recordings and modern day interpretation, pianist Marisa Gupta, violinist Maria Wloszczowska, violist Rosalind Ventris, and cellist Jonathan Dormand returned to Yellow Barn in February for a residency that widens the scope of their study to works by Brahms, Dvorak, and Chausson. The quartet's full concert program and discussion on Monday, March 6, at 8 p.m., at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, is the culmination of their...
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