Tag: Vermont

  • Issue:

    To conserve and protect

    ,

    Scouting group keeps multi-generational link to Vermont forest By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer STRATTON, Vt. More than a half century ago, a Boy Scout group from Delaware bought a tract of land in the Green Mountains that has become an enduring example of private environmental stewardship. Today, one of those Scouts, Ross Lanius of North Haven, read more

    To conserve and protect
  • Issue:

    Election 2014 Preview: Who’s on your ballot

    ,

    Here are the candidates and referendum questions on ballots for the Nov. 4 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

    Election 2014 Preview: Who’s on your ballot
  • Issue:

    Drugged by court order — Patients, advocates seek alternatives to forced psychiatric medication

    , , ,

    Patients, advocates seek alternatives to forced psychiatric medication By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   For Sarah Launderville, the idea of forced drugging brings back horrific memories. Launderville, the executive director of the Vermont Center for Independent Living, told a legislative panel earlier this year how she was subjected to years of sexual violence by her stepfather read more

    Drugged by court order — Patients, advocates seek alternatives to forced psychiatric medication
  • Issue:

    New hope for bats

    , ,

    Researchers find improved survival among one species, after long decline By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer DORSET, Vt. Biologists have documented the first hopeful sign that the region’s bat populations may eventually recover from the devastation of white nose syndrome. The numbers of one species of bat affected by the deadly disease appear to be stabilizing, with read more

    New hope for bats
  • Issue:

    Going beyond the traditional

    Bennington Museum widens scope, adds taste of Vermont modernism By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Up until two years ago, the Bennington Museum mostly focused on local history, arts and culture from the 18th and 19th centuries. Then Robert Wolterstorff was hired as the museum’s new director in the summer of 2012 after a yearlong read more

    Going beyond the traditional
  • Issue:

    Vermont agency under fire after children’s deaths

    Vermont officials moved last month to shake up the local office of the state’s child welfare agency after an investigation into the death of a 2-year-old Poultney girl in February.The state Department for Children and Families announced June 20 that the director of its Rutland office would be transferred to the department’s central office in read more

    Vermont agency under fire after children’s deaths
  • Issue:

    New meaning to changing seasons

    ,

    Report predicts fallout from long-term climate shifts in Vermont By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   The Vermont of maple syrup in the spring, red and orange foliage in October and snowy winters may be just a memory in a few decades, according to a new study of how climate change will affect the Green Mountain State. read more

    New meaning to changing seasons
  • Issue:

    On Hildene’s 400-plus acres, focus turns to ecological stewardship

    ,

    On Hildene’s 400-plus acres, focus turns to ecological stewardship   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer MANCHESTER, Vt. Stately historic properties make fine museums, though once visitors have seen some of these grand old estates they may figure they’ve already had the full experience. But Hildene, the Lincoln family home in Manchester, has spent the last decade read more

    On Hildene’s 400-plus acres, focus turns to ecological stewardship
  • Issue:

    Industrial legacy adds to region’s clean-energy potential

    , , ,

    Industrial legacy adds to region’s clean-energy potential By ALEX ELVINContributing writer A. Perry Heller photos   NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt. Bill Scully says he had an epiphany while driving home on Christmas Day in 2008, past the historic mills and dams of southern Vermont. “Why,” he recalls wondering, “when there is an energy crisis, am I read more

    Industrial legacy adds to region’s clean-energy potential
  • Issue:

    Study backs passenger rail for southwestern Vermont

    , ,

    By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   Carrie Snyder photo   NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt.A study released earlier this year by the Vermont and New York transportation departments concludes that passenger train service should be restored to southwestern Vermont after an absence of more than 60 years. Consultant Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., in a study paid for by read more

    Study backs passenger rail for southwestern Vermont