There's not much that Connecticut Yankee and Vermont Yankee have in common, other than their names and the fact that they're both nuclear plants that no longer produce power. But a recent field trip to the Connecticut site provided several members of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VNDCAP) with some important insights. For VNDCAP Chair Kate O'Connor, the most powerful impression was Connecticut Yankee's reclamation by nature - and her realization that something similar might one day happen...
Elayne Clift's recent foray into writing about people of color is off the mark. It is a worthy topic. Perhaps she could have had a person of color write that column, on a subject of their choosing. Anyone may make art. Paying, supporting, and promoting artists is a different topic. That publisher she wrote about who sought to do so made a good choice. I bet a $20 donation to a local group supporting and run by BIPOC that this...
Musicians living in and around Brattleboro who play tubas, sousaphones, and euphoniums are invited to present this year's edition of the annual TubaChristmas at the First Congregational Church on Sunday, Dec. 14. TubaChristmas began in 1974 to honor the late, great tubist William J. Bell, who was born Christmas Day, 1902. Every Christmas season, tuba and euphonium players of all ages gather to pay respect to Bell and honor their other teachers. Concerts are scheduled in more than 250 cities...
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