A private corporation in Tennessee wants to erect a prison in Hinsdale, New Hampshire that would lock about 1,600 people in cages. Hinsdale borders Brattleboro and the Massachusetts town of... Read more »
May 19, 2012
Civil Disobedience at Valley Nuke Set For July 1
Anti-nuclear activists are planning to risk arrest for non-violent civil disobedience at the entrance to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power reactor on July 1. They are asking the public to join... Read more »
May 13, 2012
Massachusetts Minimum Wage Could Go Up This Summer
A bill to raise the minimum wage in Massachusetts passed a key legislative committee vote last month. The only legislator from the Valley listed as a supporter on the bill’s web page is... Read more »
May 10, 2012
Photo: Connecticut River in Downtown Brattleboro
This photo was taken on May 10 from an apartment in downtown Brattleboro. It shows the Connecticut River, and train tracks that Amtrak uses for service from Brattleboro to Springfield, New York... Read more »
May 04, 2012
Five People In Seven Years Killed by Police in Keene Area
On April 17, one or more Keene police officers shot and killed Julio Angel DeJesus in Keene. On April 19, a professor of Criminal Justice at Keene State College told the Valley Post he expected a... Read more »