Tag: Vermont

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    Celebrating the self-taught artist

    ‘Grassroots art’ is focus in exhibit at Bennington Museum By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Stephen C. Warren’s “Memory Ware Tower” (1894). Photos courtesy of the Bennington Museum The Mona Lisa has been in the Louvre since 1797; one of Monet’s water-lily paintings sold at auction for more than $60 million in 2008. These and read more

    Celebrating the self-taught artist
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    Stefanik on food labels: Keep public in the dark

    It began with a triumph of representative democracy. Last year, legislators in Montpelier voted overwhelmingly to make Vermont the first state in the nation to require labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. Over the past several years, Vermonters had made it clear that they wanted the right to know what was in their food, read more

    Stefanik on food labels: Keep public in the dark
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    Chain slashes staff at regional newspapers

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    The corporate parent of several daily newspapers in the region has axed at least 16 reporters, editors and other newsgathering employees in recent weeks as it seeks a buyer for the papers.Digital First Media, which is controlled by the New York City hedge fund Alden Capital Group, laid off 10 employees in late June at read more

    Chain slashes staff at regional newspapers
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    A toddler as muse

    Bennington artist blends family, creative lives in works that challenge By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   The artist Renee Bouchard has lately been inviting her 2-year-old son, Ensor, to share in her creative process. The result is a series of paintings that will be on display at two locations in downtown Bennington this summer read more

    A toddler as muse
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    In Rutland, solar power’s next step

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    High-tech storage battery set for debut this fall By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer RUTLAND, Vt.   Photovoltaic panels collect the sun’s energy at the Borkowski family’s home in Rutland, which Green Mountain Power has dubbed the “energy home of the future.” This fall, the utility will begin offering a new high-tech battery that will allow homeowners read more

    In Rutland, solar power’s next step
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    At Dorset festival, the (new) play’s the thing

    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer DORSET, Vt. Photo courtesy Dorset Theatre Festival Several thousand years ago in southern Greece, the ancient amphitheater at Epidaurus became known for its fine acoustics – a place where a whisper on stage could be heard from the top row of the proscenium. Today, tour guides to Epidaurus are to known read more

    At Dorset festival, the (new) play’s the thing
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    On childhood vaccines, medicine in Vermont

    Supporters are calling it a victory for science, but the Vermont Legislature’s decision last month on childhood vaccines is rightfully leaving some parents feeling bullied. In the aftermath of a measles outbreak earlier this year in California that sickened 147 people, lawmakers in Montpelier were persuaded to do away with a longstanding provision of state read more

    On childhood vaccines, medicine in Vermont
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    Shearing the flock

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    Spring’s arrival finds an age-old tradition thriving in Vermont By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer RUPERT, Vt.   Andy Rice shears a sheep in 2013 at a farm in West Pawlet, Vt. Rice is among the shearers making the rounds at area farms this spring amid signs that the demand for locally produced wool is increasing in read more

    Shearing the flock
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    Vermont weighs options for veterans home

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    Bennington facility’s subsidy becomes a target amid state budget squeeze By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   Residents of the Vermont Veterans’ Home gather for an activity in late April. State officials have lately been debating how to fund the facility, which currently receives a $5 million annual state subsidy, and some have even suggested read more

    Vermont weighs options for veterans home
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    New Rutland shopping plaza isn’t sprawl, panel rules

    A new shopping plaza including a BJ’s Wholesale Club, to be built at the southern end of the Route 7 commercial strip in Rutland, does not run afoul of Vermont’s new anti-sprawl regulations, a state panel has concluded. The District 1 Environmental Commission ruled April 3 that the project, to be built on an undeveloped read more

    New Rutland shopping plaza isn’t sprawl, panel rules