About a year ago, Scott Beck got an email that cost him $75,000. It wasn't from a Nigerian claiming to be the administrator of a millionaire's estate, but from a company in New York called On Demand Books .
The 2010 legislative session is coming fast and one of the biggest items on the Legislature's plate is whether Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon should receive permission to continue operation past its original license expiration date of 2012.
It was 11 years ago now that Middlebury College's John Elder published 'Reading the Mountains of Home,' and I don't believe an autumn has passed since when I haven't spent an evening or two becoming reacquainted with a chapter or two from it.
Library Card SignUp Month and the beginning of the academic year seems like an appropriate time to reach out and introduce our community to new services and upcoming programs being offered by the Bennington Free Library.
Brad Kelley's love of wine started at the ripe age of 21 as simple curiosity. Growing up in Virginia, Kelley's father was always into wine but "it didn't register when I was younger," said Kelley, now the owner of Burlington Wine Shop.
The action will be in Manchester this week as the Vermont Arts Council's "Art of Action" project begins its almost yearlong tour through Vermont with an exhibition at Hand Motors.
At the Windsor CountyAgricultural Fair this weekend, milk was free. At the fair's snack bar, along with the staples of a summer diet - hamburgers, cheeseburgers, grilled barbecued chicken, soda and water, milk was being given away at no charge to fairgoers.
The Mark Skinner Library will host their Book Bash, the opening celebration for the Summer Reading Program, "Be Creative @ Your Library," on Thursday, July 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The Book Bash begins a 6-week series of creative, exciting activities that will include an author visit by Woody Jackson, a movement workshop, a field trip to the ...