Tag: Vermont

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    Election 2018: Results from three states

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      MASSACHUSETTS   GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR* Charles Baker and Karyn E. Polito (R) 1,781,341 (66.8%) Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey (D) ….. 885,770 (33.2%)   U.S. SENATORShiva Ayyadurai (i) …………………………………… 91,710 (3.4%)Geoff Diehl (R) ……………………………………. 979,210 (36.2%)* Elizabeth A. Warren (D)…………………. 1,633,371 (60.4%)   ATTORNEY GENERAL * Maura Healey (D) …………………………. 1,874,209 (70.0%)James R. read more

    Election 2018: Results from three states
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    Recycling’s turmoil: A time to reassess

    When state and local governments got into the recycling business 30 years ago amid the 1980s solid waste crisis, supporters said the economics of this new endeavor would sort themselves out over time. The theory was that, by getting the public to separate cans, glass, paper and plastics from disposable trash, we’d create a steady read more

    Recycling’s turmoil: A time to reassess
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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
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    Sharing the solitude Mount Equinox drive offers revelatory vistas near monks’ retreat

    Scenic drive and solitude atop Equinox Funds raised from the 5.2-mile toll road up Mount Equinox, seen here just below the summit, help to support the monks cloistered in a nearby monastery, the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration. Telly Halkias photo   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt. They stand there, proudly, like soldiers on parade, read more

    Sharing the solitude Mount Equinox drive offers revelatory vistas near monks’ retreat
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    As midterm vote nears, take it down a notch

    As this issue goes to press, the national news is focused on the bitter battle over a Supreme Court nomination. We’re in a week of limbo between the dramatic testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh and the completion of a highly anticipated but limited FBI investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh. Even by read more

    As midterm vote nears, take it down a notch
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    A closer look at a toxin’s trail

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    New studies find more cancer, wider contamination from PFOA Judith Enck, a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Bennington College professors Janet Foley and John Hultgren went door to door in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., to gather information for a community healh survey as they researched the effects of PFOA. David Bond read more

    A closer look at a toxin’s trail
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    State’s claims on cancer belied by new PFOA study

    When Michael Hickey, a former village trustee in Hoosick Falls, decided to have his tap water tested for perfluorooctanoic acid in 2014, he was searching for an explanation for what he and others believed was a high local incidence of cancer. Hickey’s father, who had worked at a local factory that used PFOA, died of read more

    State’s claims on cancer belied by new PFOA study
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    Pushing back against plastic

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    Citizen activists pursue local, state curbs on bags, bottles, straws By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt. Environmental advocates around the region are increasing their efforts to reduce plastic waste by calling for bans on certain single-use plastics – shopping bags and water bottles – and some are asking restaurants and their patrons to cut back read more

    Pushing back against plastic
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    Primary elections near in Vermont and Mass.

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    Primary elections on Aug. 14 in Vermont and Sept. 4 in Massachusetts will set the stage for statewide races this fall — and will effectively determine the winner of several local positions that only one major party is contesting. In Vermont, the most crowded contest locally is the five-way Republican race for three seats representing read more

    Primary elections near in Vermont and Mass.
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    Finding humor even in dark subjects

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    Two exhibits in Bennington gather the works of New Yorker cartoonists Curious skeletal creatures figure prominently in an exhibit of prints and drawings by Edward Koren that’s now on view at the Bennington Museum. Koren’s work is also included a separate show at the Laumeister Art Center that brings together works by 20 cartoonists for read more

    Finding humor even in dark subjects