Tag: Vermont

  • Issue:

    Virus arrives in region, upending all plans

    The coronavirus crept into the region stealthily, probably sometime in late February, then burst into public view on the weekend of March 7-8. That weekend, Vermont officials announced that a patient being treated at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington had the state’s first confirmed case of Covid-19. A patient at Berkshire Medical Center in read more

    Virus arrives in region, upending all plans
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    First battle was lost in failure to test

    As we prepare this issue for press at the end of March, the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down much of the Northeast and is threatening to hit New York City and its suburbs with catastrophic force over the next few weeks. For now, the focus of the nation and our region is appropriately on how read more

    First battle was lost in failure to test
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    Vermont towns offer ‘sanctuary’ for gun rights

    Borrowing the language of cities that offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants, some towns in southwestern Vermont are proclaiming themselves sanctuaries for gun rights.As of late January, select boards in seven towns around the state had adopted resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, while voters in at least a dozen others were expected to take up read more

    Vermont towns offer ‘sanctuary’ for gun rights
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    Election 2019

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    Here are the results from major local races and ballot issues in the Nov. 5 general elecction in New York and Massachusetts. Winning candidates are in bold type. A brief summary follows the results for each county. The results shown for Rensselaer, Warren and Washington counties are final, official tallies certified by local election officials. read more

    Election 2019
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    Legal fight over an epidemic

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    Local governments push drug industry over costs of opioid crisis   Tom Haley, executive director of the Turning Point Recovery Center in Bennington, stands in the meeting room of the center, which helps people who are recovering from addiction. photo by Joan K. Lentini   EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. As opioid addiction has devastated read more

    Legal fight over an epidemic
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    Small schools weigh interstate merger

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    Cross-border district would be first linking Vermont and Mass.   The local school in Stamford, Vt., housed in the same complex as the town office and library, has fewer than 100 students in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The Stamford school district is considering merging with a district across the state line in Clarksburg, Mass. Susan read more

    Small schools weigh interstate merger
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    A downtown makeover begins

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    Bennington sees landmark buildings as key to reviving its urban core The former Putnam Hotel and two neighboring buildings in the center of downtown Bennington are the focus of a redevelopment effort that started construction in June. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. After two years of delays and read more

    A downtown makeover begins
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    Mozzarella from the mountains

    Bennington cheesemaker grows with Vermont’s artisanal food movement Corey Gilliland, an apprentice cheesemaker at Maplebrook Farm in Bennington, hand pulls stracciatella, a kind of fresh mozzarella that is stretched by hand and then soaked in cream. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Come the second weekend in August, local cheesemaker read more

    Mozzarella from the mountains
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    How the 1960s recast Vermont, from politics to art

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    Two shows explore how the 1960s reshaped Vermont’s politics and art In 1960, demonstrators in downtown Bennington joined nationwide protests that pushed the Woolworth’s chain to end segregation of its lunch counters in the South. This photo, from the May 1960 Bennington College Bulletin, was credited to Jon L. Allen and is included in the read more

    How the 1960s recast Vermont, from politics to art
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    A vote of confidence in Bennington’s future

    Finally the dream is starting to become real.It’s been more than four years since community leaders began formulating a plan to redevelop nearly a full square block in the center of downtown Bennington. Its backers say the Putnam Block project, formally unveiled in 2017, will restore three historic multi-story buildings along Main and South streets read more

    A vote of confidence in Bennington’s future