Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
The Energy Daily Network, a subscription-only online newsletter that covers the energy industry, reported last week that Exelon Corp. and NRG Energy Inc., have expressed an interest in buying the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon. In a story written by Energy Daily reporter Jeff Beattie, Entergy Nuclear, the current owner, is “apparently fed up with the troublesome investment - and the difficult political environment it faces in the state” and “has begun shopping its Vermont Yankee nuclear power...
We're 10 years removed from that tragic September morning of death and destruction in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. The images of New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days afterward, are burned into my brain. I have no intention of seeing any of the 10-year anniversary programs. As a newspaper editor who was working that day and struggled to assemble something that made sense of unspeakable horror, I saw, heard, and read enough accounts of the death...
The Vermont Jazz Center presents the Matt Wilson Trio in a concert honoring their founding director, Attila Zoller, on Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. Matt Wilson is a highly acclaimed drummer who was particularly close to Attila. They performed together often during Zoller's final years. There was always a tremendous affinity between them; perhaps it was Wilson's deep groove, or his goofy yet powerfully confident persona that Zoller found compelling. Hungarian born jazz guitarist Zoller was known as a...
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