Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The towns of Dover and Wilmington took the unusual step of hiring a lobbyist, Kevin Ellis of the Montpelier-based KSE Partners LLC, to advocate for the two communities on education funding issues at the Statehouse this year. In an update presented by Ellis and Dover School Board member Laura Sibilia at a June 5 Dover Selectboard meeting, Ellis said that the town's efforts were bearing fruit. The best example of this, he said, was legislation that was drafted at the...
More scare stories! No basis in physics for waiting? The physics I took says that radioactive elements decrease in intensity and potency with time, as they give off their radioactivity. Every radioactive element eventually results in non-radioactive lead, through a long chain. Waiting years will decrease the potential exposure to workers. Poor practices could still result in overexposure, but nothing lethal. Whatever radioactive material is in the ground will be moving toward the river, but also decaying, thus decreasing in...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center recently announced that 107 young people from across Vermont have been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for their exceptional artistic and literary talent. The students' award-winning artwork and writing will be exhibited at BMAC from Feb. 15 until March 7, culminating in an awards ceremony on Saturday, March 7, at noon. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. The Awards Ceremony is free and open to the public. Vermont author Ann Braden will...
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