Tag: Vermont

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    Vermont weighs rules for slate quarries

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    Industry warns of costs and job losses, but critics see need for oversight Tom Beebe hammers a large piece of slate so that it will be able to fit onto the processing belt at the Sheldon Slate Products facility in Poultney. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer POULTNEY, Vt. A legislative battle read more

    Vermont weighs rules for slate quarries
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    Judge bars college from selling arts center

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    The founders of the Bennington Center for the Arts have gone to court in an effort to annul their gift of the center to Southern Vermont College. In a lawsuit filed May 21 in Bennington Superior Court, Bruce Laumeister and Elizabeth Small argue that when they agreed to donate the arts center and its collection read more

    Judge bars college from selling arts center
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    Ground rules needed for slate quarrying

    One of the chief selling points of zoning and planning laws is the idea that government oversight of land use gives a measure of protection to landowners large and small. As we’ve seen in many cases over the years, the devil is the details of land-use laws, and sometimes these laws wind up requiring ugly read more

    Ground rules needed for slate quarrying
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    Measuring time as a college shuts down

    Time has run out for Green Mountain College, which last month held a bittersweet final commencement ceremony. The college had struggled recently in the face of declining enrollment and operating deficits. With its endowment of $2.9 million dwarfed by a debt load of more than $22 million, Green Mountain’s president announced in January that it read more

    Measuring time as a college shuts down
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    German delight, made in Vermont

    Quest for gluten-free spatzle leads to specialty food business Marty and Julz Irion started trying to create a gluten-free version of German spatzle noodles seven years ago. The trial-and-error effort led to a tasty recipe and a home-based artisanal food business.Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer ARLINGTON, Vt.On an April afternoon, Arlington’s read more

    German delight, made in Vermont
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    Broadway to Bennington

    Oldcastle Theatre sets stage for new ‘transitional’ season Sarah Corey and Peter Langstaff perform in Oldcastle Theatre’s 2018 production of A.R. Gurney’s “Fourth Wall.”Erika Floriani photo/courtesy Oldcastle Theatre Company   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. It was the early 1970s when Eric Peterson and a handful of his actor friends left the shadow of read more

    Broadway to Bennington
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    Colleges on the brink

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    Demographic, financial pressures spell doom for three area schools Southern Vermont College President David R. Evans stands on the patio outside his office in the college’s Everett Mansion. The college is one of three in the region that plan to close this spring. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer     With read more

    Colleges on the brink
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    Disappearing local colleges pose questions for future

    As scandals go, this one was stunning in its scope yet somehow unsurprising. In mid-March, federal prosecutors accused nearly three dozen wealthy parents across the country of making six- and seven-figure payments to buy their children admission to top-ranked colleges from Yale to Stanford. The parents, authorities say, paid a corrupt educational consultant who then read more

    Disappearing local colleges pose questions for future
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    College to shut down leaving a Vermont void

    Green Mountain College has announced plans to shut down at the end of the current academic year and surrender its 155-acre Poultney campus to creditors. The private liberal arts college, which specializes in environmental studies and in recent years won accolades for its campus sustainability projects, cited financial pressures resulting from shrinking enrollment as the read more

    College to shut down leaving a Vermont void
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    Recycling’s season of discontent

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    Haulers, local governments struggle as waste markets disappear A truck delivers a load of recyclables to TAM Recycling in Pownal. The pile in the foreground contains about 1.5 days worth of cardboard recyclables that have been delivered and are awaiting processing at the facility. Joan K. Lentini photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer POWNAL, Vt. read more

    Recycling’s season of discontent