WILMINGTON — Sounds like Steve Moore doesn't know what the roads are like in the winter - people like to find fault with what road crews do.
But he's probably the first one to bitch when they're not plowed or sanded during a freezing rainstorm.
We have to keep people safe, even with all the new state regulations that are given to us every year. So bite me if you don't agree.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
There has been much debate about how Vermont Yankee administrators are using the plant's decommissioning trust fund. As it turns out, the federal government has been taking its share of that same pot of money. In response to an information request from the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VNDCAP), Entergy administrators have disclosed that they paid $34 million in federal trust fund taxes over a 10-year period. Those tax payments - the result of a 20 percent federal levy...
Town Meeting representatives will consider a new 1-percent local-option sales tax, one of the few rapid-acting tools that towns have to grow revenue as expenses increase. But another local tax is a short-term and shortsighted fix to a decades-long problem. No proposals to improve the long-term productivity of our tax base are on the table, and all available bandwidth is focused on a yes-no vote. A major concern is whether this tax would harm the retail base it seeks to...
Don Baldini, legendary bassist for Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and many other musicians, will join Dan DeWalt on piano for an evening of Great American Songbook standards on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Four Columns Inn at 21 West St. from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For decades, Baldini has performed, recorded, and taught throughout the U.S., from the West Coast to New England, and “is beloved for his hard swing and impeccable playing,” writes DeWalt, who plays plays in a...
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