Tag: Vermont

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    From business to brushstroke

    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   Tony Conner of Bennington, Vt., was working for an oil company in New Jersey in the 1980s when he set a goal of becoming a professional artist. Courtesy photo For Tony Conner, the road not taken was as clear as a lone printed word on a business memo read more

    From business to brushstroke
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    Start of a transformation: Accepting all 300 pounds of me

    New Manchester library points a way forward for rural communities Stacey Morris   There I was, on line at Albany International Airport, waiting to board a plane for Nashville on my maiden voyage as a freelance travel writer. I’d recently departed the safety of a 9-to-5 job because I wanted more freedom. Now that I read more

    Start of a transformation: Accepting all 300 pounds of me
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    Bennington says no to fluoridated water

    A proposal to add fluoride to Bennington’s drinking water has been dropped after the town’s voters rejected the idea by a lopsided margin. An advisory question on the March 3 town meeting ballot asked whether the town should fluoridate its water to help prevent tooth decay. A total of 1,539 voters, or about 58 percent, read more

    Bennington says no to fluoridated water
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    Vermont halts single-payer quest, citing cost

    The future of health care in Vermont has taken a sharp turn after Gov. Peter Shumlin abandoned a four-year effort that would have made the state the first to implement a single-payer system of insurance. Shumlin, a Democrat, had pushed since he was first elected in 2010 to create a Medicare-for-all type of insurance system read more

    Vermont halts single-payer quest, citing cost
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    From ancient Egypt to Vermont

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    New Manchester library points a way forward for rural communities By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt.   More than two millennia have passed since the first of several destructions of the Great Library of Alexandria. With each catastrophe, the educated world mourned the loss of centuries of knowledge, and the citizens of that ancient Egyptian read more

    From ancient Egypt to Vermont
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    In Bennington, a battle over fluoride

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    Doctors see public-health benefit, but opponents decry ‘mass medication’ By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   Mary Lou Albert is one of the organizers of Bennington Citizens Against Fluoridated Water, a group opposing a March 3 advisory vote on whether to add fluoride to the town’s drinking water. The measure is supported a group of read more

    In Bennington, a battle over fluoride
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    A passion for performance

    In Dorset, community-theater tradition thrives in ninth decade By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer DORSET, Vt.   Members of The Dorset Players, seen here in this fall’s production of “The Heiress,” are apt to play many roles both on and off the stage. The community theater group has no artistic director; instead, its board makes group decisions read more

    A passion for performance
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    Election 2014: The pendulum swings to red

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    Here are the detailed results of federal and state elections held Nov. 4 across the region. A guide to politcal party abbreviations is at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). Winners are marked in bold. Figures for Massachusetts and Vermont are the final, certified results from the secretary of state’s office in each read more

    Election 2014: The pendulum swings to red
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    Chasing a dream, crossing a channel

    Vermont woman achieves ‘Mount Everest’ of long-distance swimming By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer WALLINGFORD, Vt. Bethany Bosch admits that the last seven hours of her swim across the English Channel were “pretty intense.” She had already been stroking freestyle through 62-degree water for more than 10 hours as the tidal currents pushed her west toward the read more

    Chasing a dream, crossing a channel
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    County seeks refund as land deal raises questions

    The chairman of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors is asking the local economic development corporation to pay back $114,000 in taxpayer funds that were used to buy land included in a deal that has become the focus of a series of conflict-of-interest allegations. Supervisor Patrick Grattan, R-Kinderhook, wrote to the Columbia Economic Development Corp. read more

    County seeks refund as land deal raises questions