BRATTLEBORO-The Stone Church on Main Street had been hosting an eclectic range of music for...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC) invites everyone to join them to celebrate the festival of...
BRATTLEBORO-On Saturday, Dec. 21, Vermont-based Jatoba and Massachusetts-based Hot Day at the Zoo will make...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music celebrate the season with an evening of traditional...
It's not every day that you hear of something that's still going strong after 100 years. But this summer, the Green Mountain Camp for Girls is celebrating its 100th year with reunions, shared memories, singing, feasting, dancing, sports, and yes, s'mores. It is also mounting a Centennial Campaign to raise $100,000 for capital improvements. The camp seems to inspire the girls who go there. “We're helping people recapture a very good time in their lives,” said current camp director, former...
Edward Jaffe [“Perfection: political tactic or prerequisite?,” Point/Counterpoint, Oct. 19] makes a personal judgement that perfection is required in the use of nuclear power. Thirty governments around the world committed to nuclear power judge differently. They compare to the alternatives. The math that he suggests - risk from one plant times the number of plants - was done 35 years ago in the NRC's official report on risk (WASH 1400, the Rasmussen Report). Mr. Jaffe persists in the tired old...
Ron Krupp, a former Saxtons River farmer, recently published his latest book, “The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening,” the “sister-companion” to his 2005 title, “The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening.” The latter book, now in its ninth printing with more than 18,000 copies sold, received the Christian Science Monitor Garden Book of the Year Award for New England. According to Krupp, we've lost our rural character, even here in Vermont, which many consider among the nation's more agricultural states. He's directed much...
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