Tag: Vermont

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    Unequal justice? Bennington, Rutland rank high in study of police bias

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    By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   Black drivers who are pulled over by city police in Rutland are at least six times more likely than white drivers to wind up being searched. But police searches of black drivers in Rutland and elsewhere across Vermont are less likely than searches of white drivers to turn up drugs read more

    Unequal justice? Bennington, Rutland rank high in study of police bias
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    Door slams shut as first refugees arrive

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    Only two Syrian families make it to Rutland before Trump halts program By C.B. HALLContributing writerand FRED DALEYEditor RUTLAND, Vt.   Several hundred people took part in a Jan. 28 vigil in Rutland to express support for allowing Syrian refugees to resettle in the city. The flow of refugees was halted the previous day by read more

    Door slams shut as first refugees arrive
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    Rutland becomes microcosm in immigration crackdown

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    When Mayor Christopher Louras announced last April that he’d volunteered Rutland as the new home for 100 refugees from the Syrian civil war, he could scarcely have imagined how fully and quickly his city would be engulfed by the toxic propaganda of a growing national anti-immigration movement. But by June, the online “Breitbart News” site read more

    Rutland becomes microcosm in immigration crackdown
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    To heal our democracy, change how we vote

    As November dawns, voters across our region are headed to the polls, inspired by a particularly high-minded campaign and impressed by the choice of so many fine candidates for public offices from the presidency on down. Well, we can dream, can’t we? The reality, of course, is that we’ve just endured a presidential campaign that read more

    To heal our democracy, change how we vote
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    Refugee plan gets green light in Rutland

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    City leaders call for unity after divisive debate By C.B. HALLContributing writer RUTLAND, Vt. It’s official: The refugees will be coming to Rutland. The U.S. State Department has approved a plan to resettle about 100 refugees from Syria and Iraq in the city over the next 12 months. The decision was announced Sept. 28 by read more

    Refugee plan gets green light in Rutland
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    A cultural exchange you can taste — Fermentation festivals

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    Mass., Vermont festivals celebrate the variety of fermented foods By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.   Real Pickles, a worker-owned cooperative based in Greenfield, Mass., was among the vendors at last month’s Berkshire Fermentation Festival in Great Barrington. A similar event is planned this month in Poultney, Vt.Courtesy photo/Chris Gauthier When many people hear read more

    A cultural exchange you can taste — Fermentation festivals
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    2016 election preview

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    Here are the candidates and referendum questions on ballots for the Nov. 8 federal and state elections across the region. Because of space limitations, uncontested races are not included. A guide to political party abbreviations is at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). Polls are open on Election Day from 7 a.m. to read more

    2016 election preview
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    GMO — State still seeking the right to know

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    Activists weigh path forward after Congress thwarts GMO food labels By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joined other elected officials and activists on July 1 to celebrate the start of Vermont’s new law requiring labeling of genetically modified foods. The achievement would prove short-lived, as Congress voted later in July to read more

    GMO — State still seeking the right to know
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    Amid cool marble, a hotbed of creativity

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    Dorset estate finds new life as retreat for artists By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer DORSET, Vt.   The Marble House Project has transformed a massive old home in Dorset, Vt., into a retreat for visual artists, dancers, musicians, writers and other creative people. Eight artists at a time share three-week residencies at the property from May read more

    Amid cool marble, a hotbed of creativity
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    Decision on refugees now months away

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    Rutland aldermen seek more discussion, decline to endorse program By C.B. HALLContributing writer RUTLAND, Vt. The federal government appears to have put off a decision on whether to resettle 100 Syrian refugees in Rutland after city aldermen chose last month not to endorse the resettlement effort.The U.S. State Department had been expected to render a read more

    Decision on refugees now months away