Tag: Poultney

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    Lengthy strike disrupted region’s slate industry

    About 600 area slate workers walked off the job on May 12 a century ago.The skilled slate workers at quarries around Granville, N.Y., and Poultney, Vt., were demanding an hourly wage increase of 5 cents — the equivalent of 92 cents in today’s dollars. Even with the increase, their wages, after adjusting for inflation, would… read more

    Lengthy strike disrupted region’s slate industry
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    Pungent flavor, spicy heat

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      Laura Ramos and Adam Fronhofer and their son Tiago, 2, hold jars of the garlic powders they produce from organic garlic grown at their Quill Hill Farm in Poultney, Vt. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer POULTNEY, Vt. At the peak of the growing season, Quill Hill Farm’s fields will be… read more

    Pungent flavor, spicy heat
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    Bringing poetry to Poultney

    Author, arts center celebrate with community reading, downtown displays   Local author David Mook stands in front of the Stone Valley Arts building, the site of a community “favorite poem” reading April 21 in Poultney, Vt. A companion event, Poultney Poetry Downtown, will display poems in the windows of local businesses in celebration of National… read more

    Bringing poetry to Poultney
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    With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape

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      The campus of Green Mountain College, seen here in its final semester of operation in 2019, was sold at auction in August to an entrepreneur who says he hopes to revive it as an agricultural work college. The campus is one of three in southwestern Vermont that are in the process of being converted… read more

    With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape
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    Ground rules needed for slate quarrying

    One of the chief selling points of zoning and planning laws is the idea that government oversight of land use gives a measure of protection to landowners large and small. As we’ve seen in many cases over the years, the devil is the details of land-use laws, and sometimes these laws wind up requiring ugly… read more

    Ground rules needed for slate quarrying
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    Measuring time as a college shuts down

    Time has run out for Green Mountain College, which last month held a bittersweet final commencement ceremony. The college had struggled recently in the face of declining enrollment and operating deficits. With its endowment of $2.9 million dwarfed by a debt load of more than $22 million, Green Mountain’s president announced in January that it… read more

    Measuring time as a college shuts down
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    Colleges on the brink

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    Demographic, financial pressures spell doom for three area schools Southern Vermont College President David R. Evans stands on the patio outside his office in the college’s Everett Mansion. The college is one of three in the region that plan to close this spring. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer     With… read more

    Colleges on the brink
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    Disappearing local colleges pose questions for future

    As scandals go, this one was stunning in its scope yet somehow unsurprising. In mid-March, federal prosecutors accused nearly three dozen wealthy parents across the country of making six- and seven-figure payments to buy their children admission to top-ranked colleges from Yale to Stanford. The parents, authorities say, paid a corrupt educational consultant who then… read more

    Disappearing local colleges pose questions for future
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    College to shut down leaving a Vermont void

    Green Mountain College has announced plans to shut down at the end of the current academic year and surrender its 155-acre Poultney campus to creditors. The private liberal arts college, which specializes in environmental studies and in recent years won accolades for its campus sustainability projects, cited financial pressures resulting from shrinking enrollment as the… read more

    College to shut down leaving a Vermont void
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    A slice of Vermont to sip and savor

    In a former dairy barn, Poultney vineyard bottles wine, creates memories The rows of grapevines stretch out beneath a moody sky at Whaleback Vineyard in Poultney. The vineyard’s large barn, renovated last year, now provides space for weddings and other events.Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer POULTNEY, Vt. On a quiet autumn… read more

    A slice of Vermont to sip and savor