Tag: Vermont

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    Songbird’s decline fuels climate-change debate

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    Groups seek endangered-species status for Bicknell’s thrush By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer The fate of a little bird that spends its summers in the high elevations of the Green Mountains could soon become a new focal point in a national battle over regulating climate-changing emissions. Earlier this year, the federal government started the formal process read more

    Songbird’s decline fuels climate-change debate
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    Who’s got your number? License-plate scanners raise privacy concerns

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    License-plate scanners help police but raise privacy concerns By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.One day in late September, Bennington police were given information about a possible drug deal set to occur within the town limits. The police began to search the area for a vehicle of one of the suspects. Officers couldn’t find a read more

    Who’s got your number? License-plate scanners raise privacy concerns
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    Oldcastle Theater company moves to downtown Bennington

    Theater company’s move to downtown Bennington opens possibilities By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer   BENNINGTON, Vt. When Oldcastle Theatre Company had to vacate its home of 18 years last fall, some feared for the future of the local theater group. But a blow that could have been fatal has turned instead into an exciting opportunity. read more

    Oldcastle Theater company moves to downtown Bennington
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    Law targets food wastes

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    By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer RUTLAND, Vt.Tucked away from the rows of groceries at the Rutland Area Food Co-op are five-gallon buckets with lids, filled with food scraps that most customers wouldn’t want to take home. But those buckets move out the door faster than some of the foodstuffs on the co-op’s shelves. The co-op’s read more

    Law targets food wastes
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    Activists push new strategy on biotech crops

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    Vermont labeling law stalls as attention shifts to California By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer On an April weeknight in Montpelier, the Vermont House Agriculture Committee held a public hearing on a bill to require labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. To the surprise of even the bill’s supporters, more than 400 people showed up. read more

    Activists push new strategy on biotech crops
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    Extravagant structure, uncertain future

    Board seeks new direction for North Bennington’s Victorian jewel By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt. The Park-McCullough House, one of Vermont’s architectural treasures, has fallen on hard times. The 35-room, Second-Empire-style mansion, set on 200 acres near the center of North Bennington, has in recent decades operated as a museum and served as read more

    Extravagant structure, uncertain future
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    Vt. backs wider police access to drug data

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    House, Senate split over requirement for search warrants By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer Faced with what some are calling an “epidemic” of prescription drug abuse in Vermont, state legislators have passed two competing bills to give police greater access to a state database of prescription records. But the state House and Senate have so far read more

    Vt. backs wider police access to drug data
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    What corsets, petticoats revealed

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    Exhibit traces social history through 19th century undergarments By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Can a corset tell a story? Perhaps. Callie Stewart, the collections manager at the Bennington Museum, knows that corsets, stays, and petticoats signified a lot more than the mere wearing of undergarments for women living in New England in the read more

    What corsets, petticoats revealed
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    In age of super PACs, a grassroots revolt

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    Rutland, area towns back resolutions opposing ‘corporate personhood’ By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer RUTLAND, Vt. On the shortest, darkest days of the year, local activists were out knocking on doors and collecting signatures in support of a constitutional amendment. Outraged by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has unleashed unlimited election spending by corporations, members read more

    In age of super PACs, a grassroots revolt
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    Vermont moves to limit vaccine exemptions

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    Vermont moves to limit vaccine exemptions, prompting backlash By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer   BENNINGTON, Vt. Asked about the subject of childhood vaccines, Lauryn Starkie Kreuder became guarded. Starkie Kreuder and her husband have chosen not to vaccinate their two children. Citing philosophical objections, they obtained a waiver from the state’s vaccine requirements. The waiver read more

    Vermont moves to limit vaccine exemptions