Issue: October 2021
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Will diversity revive Rutland?
After bitter 2016 debate, city slowly welcomes refugees, asylum seekers Terese Black, president of Bridge to Rutland, and Ellen Green, the group’s executive director, stand next to a display of photographs of people seeking asylum in the United States. The organization helps to bring asylum seekers to Vermont and to support them while their… read more
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A farmstead cheese maker rebuilds
Consider Bardwell resumes scaled-down operation after safety scare The self-service farm store in the barn at Consider Bardwell Farm is open again now that the farm’s cheese production has resumed. The farm suspended operation in 2019 after a contamination scare. Joan K. Lentini photo By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer WEST PAWLET, Vt. Two years… read more
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Election 2021
Here are the major local candidates and referendum questions on ballots for the Nov. 2 election in New York and Massachusetts. A guide to political party abbreviations is in the box at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). A brief summary follows the candidate listings for each county. Because of space limitations, municipal-level… read more
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At MCLA and Williams, new works by contemporary artists
At MCLA and Williams, new works by contemporary artists Joshua Ross, the artist in residence this fall at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, is working on a series of drawings in colored pencil in the Art Lab at Gallery 51, the college’s exhibition space in downtown North Adams. Susan Sabino photo By KATE… read more
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Celebrating the world’s cultures
Collector aims to share art, promote global understanding Justin Bibee sits among some of the objects from his collection of ethnographic art. He has created a no-cost loan program to display the works at libraries, schools and other institutions. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Justin Bibee knew from… read more
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Refugees offer chance to counter city’s decline
The 2020 census figures released earlier this year offered yet another set of data to chart the long decline of Rutland. The city, which throughout the 20th century was second only to Burlington in population among Vermont’s communities, now has fallen to fifth place, behind the Chittenden County towns of Essex, South Burlington and Colchester.… read more
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Quarry laborer became nation’s ‘slate king’
The Gospel of John asks the rhetorical question, “Can any good come out of Nazareth?”In the 19th century, many people around Washington County, N.Y., and Rutland County, Vt., would have answered in the affirmative, providing the question referred to the hamlet of Nazareth in the Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales. That’s where Hugh W. Hughes,… read more