Tag: Vermont

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    Unearthing a long-lost community

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    Teacher traces history of Vermont settlement built by Mass. rebels By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer SANDGATE, Vt.   High-school students in a summer archaeological field school sift through the soil at a remote property in Sandgate, Vt., where leaders of the Shays Rebellion built an extensive community beginning in 1787. The rebels fled Massachusetts for Vermont, read more

    Unearthing a long-lost community
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    In water crisis, states reveal differing political cultures

    It hardly comes as a surprise that when faced with a crisis, Vermont’s state government would perform a whole lot better than New York’s. We already knew, from so many news stories over the years, that Vermont still functions as a representative democracy – and that New York has, well, Albany. But it’s still a read more

    In water crisis, states reveal differing political cultures
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    Climate-saving efforts go local

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    States, cities and activists push to meet goals of Paris agreement By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   With President Trump’s announcement June 1 that he would pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, area states, cities and citizen groups are redoubling their efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions and shift to renewable energy read more

    Climate-saving efforts go local
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    ‘A world of her own imagining’ — Grandma Moses meets Modernism

    Show reveals parallels between Modernists and Grandma Moses By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   “The Quilting Bee” (1950) is among the works by Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961) in a new exhibit that explores how her techniques unconsciously paralleled those of leading Modernists of her era. (Image copyright 2017, Grandma Moses Properties Co., read more

    ‘A world of her own imagining’ — Grandma Moses meets Modernism
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    Bennington — Transforming a downtown

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    By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   The historic Putnam Hotel building anchors a redevelopment project that covers nearly a full square block in downtown Bennington. George Bouret photo Over the next four years, local civic leaders say a cluster of vacant or underused properties in downtown Bennington will be transformed into a thriving urban read more

    Bennington — Transforming a downtown
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    In verse, Phillp B. Williams takes on tough themes

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    Debut poetry volume draws award for Bennington visiting professor By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   The writer Phillip B. Williams, who is teaching at Bennington College this year, won a Whiting Award this spring for his first volume of poetry. Bound, it begins.Wasn’t night what lingered where sweat leftsalt, where breath touch-expired?“Bound” is the read more

    In verse, Phillp B. Williams takes on tough themes
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    Plan for a downtown gets the big stuff right

    We have learned over the past few decades in our region that there are many ways to wreck a downtown. We’ve also learned, with good reason, to fear ambitious redevelopment schemes concocted in the name of saving struggling downtowns – plans that too often have done more harm than good. So it’s worth taking a read more

    Plan for a downtown gets the big stuff right
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    More Syrian refugees now expected in Rutland

    At least seven more families fleeing the Syrian civil war are now expected to resettle in Rutland later this year, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to halt the flow of new Syrian refugees to the United States. Rutland’s former mayor, Christopher Louras, volunteered the city more than a year ago as the new home for read more

    More Syrian refugees now expected in Rutland
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    Free clinics try to fill region’s gaps in medical care

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    Free clinics try to fill the gaps in region’s medical system By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   Dr. Richard Dundas, right, started the Bennington Free Clinic eight years ago after retiring from a 40-year medical career. Sue Andrews became the clinic’s executive director. The clinic is one of several in the region at which doctors volunteer read more

    Free clinics try to fill region’s gaps in medical care
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    In Vermont, many moves to shield immigrants

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    State, towns push back against federal crackdown By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   Vermonters have lately been taking action at the state and local levels to push back against a federal crackdown on undocumented immigrants – and to oppose any effort by the federal government to create a registry of Muslims. Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, read more

    In Vermont, many moves to shield immigrants