Tag: Vermont

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    Vermont’s biggest insurer pushes back on Home-birth law

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    Vermont’s biggest insurer balks at providing coverage By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer   DANBY, Vt.It was supposed to be a watershed moment for home-birth midwives like Heather Whitley. Last year, Vermont legislators responded to a grassroots campaign to bring home births more into the mainstream medical system, passing a bill that requires private health insurers read more

    Vermont’s biggest insurer pushes back on Home-birth law
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    Children of industry

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    By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer   BENNINGTON, Vt.Looking at the canvas, you can almost hear the enormous machines whirring and clanging and feel the cotton lint hanging in the air of the mill room as you, a child, work. In another, you see “the overseer,” an ominous, shadowy presence. Maybe he’s there, or maybe he’s read more

    Children of industry
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    College plans Vermont’s first polling center

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    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer CASTLETON, Vt.When news organizations have tried to assess the public support for various state and federal candidates in Vermont, they’ve always had to rely on the work of out-of-state polling firms. But that could soon change, as officials at Castleton State College are in the process of setting up the read more

    College plans Vermont’s first polling center
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    Fast track to a smart grid

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    Some raise privacy, health concerns as wireless meters arrive in Vermont By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer RUTLAND, Vt.Supporters say it’s a big leap forward for energy conservation in Vermont: Over the next few months, utility customers across the state are set to receive new, wireless electric meters. Power companies say the new “smart meters” will read more

    Fast track to a smart grid
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    ‘We’re going to come back’

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    Recovery starts to take shape in a town slammed by Irene By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer WILMINGTON, Vt.On a drizzly day in late September, downtown Wilmington was full of activity, but not the usual bustle of tourists and locals. Some storefronts along the two main streets had been gutted down to the timbers. Others were read more

    ‘We’re going to come back’
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    Digital age leaves small post offices endangered

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    But inside, a notice next to the post-office boxes warns that the U.S. Postal Service may soon shatter the idyllic scene. The Rupert post office, like more than 3,600 others across the nation and at least a half-dozen around the region, is under study for possible closure. Besides the post office, the center of this read more

    Digital age leaves small post offices endangered
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    Creating in the open air

    Painting competition draws artists, spectators to North Bennington By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt. There’s nothing quite like the immediacy of watching an artist in the act of creating a painting. And that simple principle is what powers the North Bennington Plein Air Competition, a “paint-out” in which professional artists vie to capture read more

    Creating in the open air
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    Reviving a cheese-making culture

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    Farmstead producers restore a tradition that faded a century ago By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer WEST PAWLET, Vt. In 1864, as the Civil War was nearing its end, Consider Stebbins Bardwell set up a cheese-making co-op at his farm along the New York border. The co-op collected cows’ milk from area farms and made it read more

    Reviving a cheese-making culture
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    Markets with a mission

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    Food co-ops expand their reach – and goals – around the region They did far better than that. By the time of its official grand opening on July 23, the co-op, with its old-fashioned barrels of bulk goods and signature 1950s appliances, had signed up 213 members. Those members paid either an annual $20 fee read more

    Markets with a mission
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    State takes medicinal pot a step further

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    Marijuana dispensaries planned for patients under new Vermont law By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Some time ago, a constituent came to state Sen. Dick Sears with an unlikely complaint: He couldn’t get enough high-quality marijuana. The constituent, Mark Tucci, has multiple sclerosis and smokes medically prescribed marijuana to relieve chronic pain and muscle read more

    State takes medicinal pot a step further