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Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
BRATTLEBORO-Three months since fully taking over local ambulance services, the town's fire department has spent 90% of its annual overtime budget as it struggles to hire enough staffers to handle calls. "Our challenges are multifaceted," department officials wrote Oct. 4 in their first quarterly report since assuming emergency medical services on July 1. A year ago, critics of the municipal takeover asked how the department could add to its responsibilities when two-thirds of its members - 16 of 23 -
The real side of the recent Townshend zoning proposal was really to eliminate or control any business by a few activists. Over time, such activists don't want electricity generation, solar panels, billboards, bird and bat killings at windmills, trash burning, biomass plants, cell towers, natural-gas pipelines - and on and on. Now, new establishments are in their sights, as they say “not in my backyard” and desire to control the multitudes. Of the 110 people who signed and want a...
A staged reading of George Bernard Shaw's The Misalliance will be presented at the Actors Theatre Playhouse for performances on two Saturdays, Aug. 5 and 12. Both performances begin promptly at 7:30. (1)The Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey, in Edwardian era England. The action follows Hypatia - the daughter of a self-made underwear...
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