Local businesses are cutting their electricity bills, thanks to Efficiency Vermont's newLIGHT program. The program helps businesses of all sizes with either fluorescent tube, T12, or HID High-Bay lighting fixtures. It helps them access rebates to replace up to 200 fixtures by working with local contractors or distributors. According to an Efficiency Vermont press release, T12 fluorescent lamps are common in many businesses throughout Vermont. They are usually four- to eight-foot-long tubes mounted horizontally in a ceiling fixture and are...
“Localvore” is the name of the game in southern Windham County, especially in the first weekend of June. While Strolling of the Heifers brings local farms and food to the fore in Brattleboro, a few minutes south, in Guilford, is local theater. Yes, complete with a local writer and local talent on a local stage. Guilford Center Stage launches its second season at the Broad Brook Grange on June 3-5 with two original one-act plays written and directed by local...
BRATTLEBORO-I recently challenged Ture Nelson, the Republican candidate for Vermont attorney general, to explain what seemed to me like unquestioning support for all controversial police actions. Having personally experienced, as crime victims, the frustration of the local prosecutor's catch-and-release program, both my wife and I fully get it that we have prosecutors who don't want to prosecute criminals. (In fact, our local state's attorney's office's "victim advocate" seems to think his job is to put us in our place and...
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