Let's Grow Hemp
      TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS RURAL VERMONt successfully lobbied for a bill in 2008 that legalized hemp in Vermont, but the commerical cultivation of hemp won't be possible here or elsewhere in the US until the federal government changes its drug policy. Why should we grow hemp?
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Vermont Yankee
      TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS AT THE OPENING of this legislative session Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin announced that this would be “The Jobs Session” -- a means for getting Vermonters back on their feet and our economy out of this recession.
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Fishing In the Dog
      TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS IN OCTOBER of 2009 the Vt.
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Use of Words
      TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS SATIRE CAN BE amusing, until it starts encouraging social stigma and discrimination. Lobotomies - - a well intended but crude surgery removing parts of the brain -- are not funny. They are a hurtful reminder of the experimentation and dehumanizing treatment that was once routine for persons with mental illness.
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United Way
      TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS THE GREEN MOUNTAIN United Way (GMUW) is a local organization that serves the people of Washington, Orange, Caledonia, Essex and Orleans counties.
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Electric Power
      TO THE EDITOR: THE NORTHFIELD NEWS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, March 3, the Vermont legislature voted by an overwhelming majority, to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant when it’s current operating license expires in 2012. That night, around 7pm, my power went out. Co-incidence?
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