DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.
I would love to read more in a future story.
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With a ballot full of races that were as hot as the August sun beating down on the candidates and supporters outside polling places around Windham County, voters turned out in strong numbers to vote in their party primaries on Aug. 9. In the marquee matchup for Vermont's lone U.S. House seat being vacated by longtime U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint of Brattleboro defeated Lt. Gov. Molly Gray to win the Democratic nomination. She will...
PUTNEY-Well, thank goodness that Joe Biden withdrew from the race for president (although no one wanted Kamala Harris when she previously ran for the office). But one way to avoid another race like this again is to mandate a retirement age for politicians. That's a very easy way to avoid what most of us didn't want to see. I suggest a retirement age of, at most, 75. Jacqueline Brook Putney This letter to the editor was submitted to The Commons.
BRATTLEBORO-In-Sight Photography Project, Brattleboro's 32-year-strong photography program for youth ages 11–18, has just opened for submissions to its second annual contest designed to nurture and support young people's curiosity about and exploration into and creativity through photography, both digital and analog (film). Building on the success of last year's In-Sight Youth Photo Awards contest, which drew more than 30 young photographers from around the region submitting some 90 works, this year's event will be similar but offer a few changes.
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