Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
Town staff, Representative Town Meeting members, and a few residents occupied seats on Tuesday night in the same room where the vote to reject the town's budget had taken place the previous week. Town staff looked pensive. Town Clerk Annette Cappy held in her lap a three-ring binder, its spine stamped with budget in large capital letters. Selectboard Chair David Gartenstein told the audience that the town-wide vote that overturned the budget [story, page A1] signaled to the board that...
There won't be a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and a tsunami in Vernon anytime soon. It's unlikely that we will see a nuclear disaster at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the scale of what we're seeing in at the Fukushima Daiichi complex in Japan. But earthquakes aren't as big a threat as more prosaic disasters, such as floods and hurricanes. Seventy-five years ago this month, massive flooding took place on the Connecticut River. The combination of the abnormally snowy winter...
Youth bands and solo artists from around New England are gearing up to take the stage at the fourth annual Brattleboro Youth Rock Festival. BrattRock 2019 comes to 118 Elliot in downtown Brattleboro on Saturday, Sept. 28. Gates open at 2:30 p.m., and performances take place on two stages, one indoor and one outdoor, between 3 and 10 p.m. In addition to non-stop live music, the festival features food vendors, interactive performances by the New England Center for Circus Arts,
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