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 opened with great fanfare in October 2010, a futuristic $2 million project that sought to grow vegetables, make bio-diesel from algae, and raise fish from the power and heat generated by the electric generator powered by methane gas from a closed landfill. Two and a half years later, the greenhouses are empty, the fish are gone, and the company that built and ran the facility alongside the Windham Solid Waste Management District on Old Ferry Road is bankrupt. Burlington-based...
Vermont Yankee has a new ad campaign: “When it comes to safety, it's time to let the facts speak for themselves.” We're told that Vermont Yankee has been safely providing electricity for 39 years, that safety and security systems are operational at all times, that personnel receive safety training, and that two NRC inspectors work on site. So far, so good. But here are some other safety-related facts: Fact: Vermont Yankee uses a General Electric Boiling Water Reactor with Mark...
Folk-music icon Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, will bring his signature blend of music and social activism to the Bellows Falls Opera House on Thursday, Dec. 8. The 78-year-old musician caught up with Mark Piepkorn of WOOL in advance of the musician's visit with a wide-ranging discussion from the crossroads of artistic expression, political activism, and social justice. “This man is still firmly planted in the activist folksinger garden, and I suspect we're all better off for it,”
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