Tag: Vermont

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    In energy and transport, finding future in the past

    By coincidence this month’s paper features two stories from North Bennington, Vt., about efforts to revive technologies that disappeared from the local scene roughly 60 years ago. Back in the early 1950s, the Rutland Railway abandoned all of its passenger train service, including a line through North Bennington, in the face of rising competition from read more

    In energy and transport, finding future in the past
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    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
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    For a locally grown Passover

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    ‘Vermatzah’ links ancient traditions, contemporary tastes By STACEY MORRISContributing writer   MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS, Vt. Micro-bakers Julie Sperling and Doug Freilich have enjoyed a decade of commercial and critical success for their organic, fire-baked Naga Bakehouse breads, but in the past few years they’ve also been developing a seasonal product for Passover. They call it Vermatzah. read more

    For a locally grown Passover
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    Health care reform hits home

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    Area navigators describe progress, pitfalls in covering the uninsured By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer The rollout of new state-run health insurance exchanges in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts hasn’t been free of problems, but in the past few months thousands of people in the region have been able to use the new system to shop read more

    Health care reform hits home
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    Mercury threat persists, studies show

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    Health risks linger in region despite cuts in emissions By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer   Despite tougher pollution standards that have led to a sharp reduction nationally in emissions of airborne mercury, several new studies suggest that high concentrations of the toxic heavy metal are persisting in the environment and continuing to pose a health read more

    Mercury threat persists, studies show
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    Right-to-die debate takes new turns in Vermont

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    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer   The emotional questions raised by Vermont’s proposed death-with-dignity law have become somewhat familiar after a series of legislative debates over the past decade. Should the terminally ill be able to choose the time and manner of their deaths? Should they be able to request assistance from a doctor? Would read more

    Right-to-die debate takes new turns in Vermont
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    Growing greens all winter long

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    Grants help farms meet an all-year demand for local produce By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer     POWNAL, Vt. Unlike many crop farmers in New England, Lisa MacDougall doesn’t hibernate. Even when the weather turned bitterly cold for a week in January, she was still busy picking spinach and kale for her community-supported-agriculture program and read more

    Growing greens all winter long
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    Accessible expression

    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer     BENNINGTON, Vt. When it comes to the creation of top-quality art, physical and mental disabilities don’t have to be insurmountable barriers. That’s the message of two shows that opened this month at the Bennington Museum. “Engage,” presented by the group VSA Vermont, features 39 works by 35 contemporary read more

    Accessible expression
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    Panel backs licenses for undocumented workers

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    Vermont may allow driving privilege regardless of legal status By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer Vermont’s debate over providing driver’s licenses to undocumented foreign workers appears to be shifting from the question of whether to issue licenses to the question of what kind to provide. In January, a nine-member study committee appointed last year by the read more

    Panel backs licenses for undocumented workers
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    Power center? Utility pushes to make Rutland the Northeast’s solar capital

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    By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer RUTLAND, Vt.The 3-acre lot at the end of Cleveland Avenue was until recently considered unsuitable for development. The property on the western edge of Rutland was a brownfield, its soil contaminated by a coal gasification plant that occupied the site decades ago. The area is considered a blighted section of read more

    Power center? Utility pushes to make Rutland the Northeast’s solar capital