Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Gov. Peter Shumlin announced on Monday that the cost of repairing the damage to transportation infrastructure caused by Tropical Storm Irene will be about half what state officials originally estimated. Two weeks ago, Neale Lunderville, the Irene recovery czar, said preliminary “worst case” scenario estimates for transportation infrastructure repairs came in at about $600 million. At a press conference on Monday, the Shumlin administration pegged those estimates at “an order of magnitude lower” - between $175 million to $250 million.
A group of artists and craftspeople from the West Brattleboro and Marlboro area will open their studios en masse this weekend. Douglas Cox of Sunset Lake Road, who makes violins, violas and cellos used worldwide by professional and traditional musicians of all genres, has coordinated a tour of 18 studios within a six-mile radius for the second annual Brattleboro-West Arts Open Studio Tour. “The weekend features some work that responds directly to the Vermont countryside, like landscape paintings, figured stoneware,
Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI - will go down in history as one of the most disgusting, hypocritical, unrepentant, criminal sinners in modern times. To anyone offended by my comments, blame Ratzinger and years of abuses by the Catholic Church, not me. They did the deeds.
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