Tag: Vermont

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    From Vermont’s marble quarries to the halls of D.C.

    Redfield Proctor Sr., the 19th century Vermont politician, lawyer, marble industry executive and Civil War veteran, will soon find his place in 21st century sculpture. The Rutland Herald reported in July that organizers of the Rutland Sculpture Trail have chosen Proctor to be the focus of the 10th sculpture on the trail, a public arts read more

    From Vermont’s marble quarries to the halls of D.C.
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    Now back to class? Colleges prepare for influx of students

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    Area colleges make plans to welcome students back as virus surges nationally   A seating area behind the Case Campus Center at Skidmore College awaits the arrival of students. The college is among several in the region that aim to resume in-person classes this month.Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CASTLETON, Vt. read more

    Now back to class? Colleges prepare for influx of students
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    Weighing the risks of schools reopening

    As this issue heads to press at the end of July, our region has become one of the best in the nation for steering clear of the coronavirus. In the counties where Massachusetts, New York and Vermont meet, new cases of Covid-19 have dwindled to no more than a handful on most days. Local public read more

    Weighing the risks of schools reopening
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    Changing a culture of policing

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    Bennington weighs how to transform officers from warriors into guardians   The town of Bennington is crafting a series of reforms to its policing policies after a report issued this spring found the local department’s practices had sown “deep distrust” in the community it serves. Tony Israel file photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, read more

    Changing a culture of policing
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    Sun Belt’s Covid surge raises questions here

    The month of June has seen our region slowly venturing forward after so many weeks of coronavirus-related shutdowns. Restaurants that had been limited to selling takeout meals since March have begun to offer outdoor table service – and in Massachusetts and Vermont, limited indoor seating. Museums and galleries are preparing to reopen. Retail stores, hair read more

    Sun Belt’s Covid surge raises questions here
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    Region moves to reopen as virus spread slows

    Two months after the coronavirus thrust the region’s economy into a deep freeze, public health officials began to give the OK in May for the first steps toward reopening. With new cases of Covid-19 on the decline across Vermont, Massachusetts and New York, the governors of the three states began to roll back restrictions that read more

    Region moves to reopen as virus spread slows
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    Cases highlight need for policing reforms

    Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, and so many more: The past decade seems a blur of names of unarmed black men, and occasionally women, dying at the hands of police. The cases, from cities all around the nation, spark outrage and protests, and then fade from the news until the next case explodes into read more

    Cases highlight need for policing reforms
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    From Vermont, a White House hopeful hailed as a reformer

    Name a Vermont politician who served for more than two decades in Congress and mounted two unsuccessful presidential bids. If your first guess is Bernie Sanders, that would not be wrong. But there is more than one correct answer. U.S. Sen. George F. Edmunds of Burlington was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in read more

    From Vermont, a White House hopeful hailed as a reformer
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    Fresh food in a pandemic

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    Region’s farmers forge ahead as shutdowns scramble local-food networks Lisa MacDougall holds two flats of kale inside one of her many greenhouses at Mighty Food Farm in Shaftsbury, Vt. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer As the Covid-19 outbreak began to shut down the nation last month, the region’s farmers and read more

    Fresh food in a pandemic
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    Work at home? Not so fast

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    Rural towns work to upgrade spotty, slow Internet links   Arlene Bentley and Bill Meyer stand with a laptop computer outside the Rosalind K. Kittay Public Library in Rupert, Vt. The local library is the only WiFi hotspot in the rural town, where most residents can’t get high-speed Internet service at home. Joan K. Lentini read more

    Work at home? Not so fast