Tag: Vermont

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    Will diversity revive Rutland?

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    After bitter 2016 debate, city slowly welcomes refugees, asylum seekers   Terese Black, president of Bridge to Rutland, and Ellen Green, the group’s executive director, stand next to a display of photographs of people seeking asylum in the United States. The organization helps to bring asylum seekers to Vermont and to support them while their… read more

    Will diversity revive Rutland?
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    A farmstead cheese maker rebuilds

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    Consider Bardwell resumes scaled-down operation after safety scare   The self-service farm store in the barn at Consider Bardwell Farm is open again now that the farm’s cheese production has resumed. The farm suspended operation in 2019 after a contamination scare. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer WEST PAWLET, Vt. Two years… read more

    A farmstead cheese maker rebuilds
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    Election 2021

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    Here are the major local candidates and referendum questions on ballots for the Nov. 2 election in New York and Massachusetts. A guide to political party abbreviations is in the box at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). A brief summary follows the candidate listings for each county. Because of space limitations, municipal-level… read more

    Election 2021
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    Celebrating the world’s cultures

    Collector aims to share art, promote global understanding   Justin Bibee sits among some of the objects from his collection of ethnographic art. He has created a no-cost loan program to display the works at libraries, schools and other institutions. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Justin Bibee knew from… read more

    Celebrating the world’s cultures
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    Refugees offer chance to counter city’s decline

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    The 2020 census figures released earlier this year offered yet another set of data to chart the long decline of Rutland. The city, which throughout the 20th century was second only to Burlington in population among Vermont’s communities, now has fallen to fifth place, behind the Chittenden County towns of Essex, South Burlington and Colchester.… read more

    Refugees offer chance to counter city’s decline
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    Quarry laborer became nation’s ‘slate king’

    The Gospel of John asks the rhetorical question, “Can any good come out of Nazareth?”In the 19th century, many people around Washington County, N.Y., and Rutland County, Vt., would have answered in the affirmative, providing the question referred to the hamlet of Nazareth in the Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales. That’s where Hugh W. Hughes,… read more

    Quarry laborer became nation’s ‘slate king’
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    Local bread, local flour

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    Bakers’ plans for grain mill would fill gap in region’s food system   Julie Sperling and Doug Freilich stand in front of the wood-fired brick oven where they bake their breads at Naga Bakehouse in Middletown Springs, Vt. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS, Vt. Julie Sperling and Doug… read more

    Local bread, local flour
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    A season of prose and poetry

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    Events across region celebrate writers and their words   Matt Tannenbaum, the proprietor of The Bookstore in Lenox, Mass., for the past 45 years, stands behind the counter at the store’s wine bar. The store is the focus of a new documentary that will debut this month at the Berkshire International Film Festival. Susan Sabino… read more

    A season of prose and poetry
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    A season of sculpture

    From the Berkshires to Vermont, outdoor shows return and expand   The artist Peter Gerakaris has created a series of Byzantine-style paintings of owls. This spring, he has been working the mosaic artist Stephen Miotto to scale up one of his images for an outdoor installation at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. Courtesy photo… read more

    A season of sculpture
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    A hub for food and community

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    It’s nearly noon on an April weekday, and Floyd Carruth Jr. has been working on his latest batch of hot sauce since early morning. By Stacey Morris read more

    A hub for food and community