Tag: Rutland

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    Local shirt factories became focus of labor disputes

    Employees at the Greenwich, N.Y., and Rutland, Vt., shirt factories of Tim, Wallerstein & Co. acted in solidarity with striking workers at the company’s factory on Liberty Street in Albany in 1891. The Greenwich and Rutland employees pledged not to complete any work transferred from the Albany factory — and if necessary, to walk off read more

    Local shirt factories became focus of labor disputes
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    Voters pick new mayor, new course for Rutland

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    The city of Rutland has a new mayor after voters chose Mike Doenges over three-term incumbent David Allaire in the March 7 Town Meeting Day election. Doenges, who had been president of the city Board of Aldermen for the past year, won decisively with 56 percent of the vote. His victory capped a campaign in read more

    Voters pick new mayor, new course for Rutland
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    On track to the future? – Federal intrastructure bill could fund new rails

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    Federal infrastructure bill could fund expanded rail links across region   Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express stops in Saratoga Springs on its way from Burlington, Vt., to New York City. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer   When Rutland Mayor David Allaire won his first election to become a city alderman in read more

    On track to the future? – Federal intrastructure bill could fund new rails
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    A top baseball pitcher’s brief run in Rutland

    Baseball experts have suggested for some time that the 19th century pitcher Tony Mullane, who ranks No. 30 for all-time wins in Major League Baseball, should be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While his pitching exploits and short-fused temper are well known in baseball circles, fewer people know that Mullane, who was nicknamed read more

    A top baseball pitcher’s brief run in Rutland
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    Will diversity revive Rutland?

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    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

    Will diversity revive Rutland?
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    Refugees offer chance to counter city’s decline

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    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

    Refugees offer chance to counter city’s decline
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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

    Quarry laborer became nation’s ‘slate king’
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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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    From Vermont’s marble quarries to the halls of D.C.

    Redfield Proctor Sr., the 19th century Vermont politician, lawyer, marble industry executive and Civil War veteran, will soon find his place in 21st century sculpture. The Rutland Herald reported in July that organizers of the Rutland Sculpture Trail have chosen Proctor to be the focus of the 10th sculpture on the trail, a public arts read more

    From Vermont’s marble quarries to the halls of D.C.
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    Vermont weighs rules for slate quarries

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    Industry warns of costs and job losses, but critics see need for oversight Tom Beebe hammers a large piece of slate so that it will be able to fit onto the processing belt at the Sheldon Slate Products facility in Poultney. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer POULTNEY, Vt. A legislative battle read more

    Vermont weighs rules for slate quarries