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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials have grown accustomed to looking under rocks and cushions for even the most minute revenues to soften...
ESSEX JUNCTION — Farmers, policymakers and consumers took a detour from their usual route to the annual Vermont Farm Show this week....

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On thin ice

AN ICE FISHING shack rests on melting ice on Lake Dunmore Tuesday morning.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Big wheels

SPECTATORS LARGE AND small got to ogle heavy equipment, sample Vermont-made cheeses, rub elbows with farmers from across the state learn about the latest farm equipment at the Vermont Farm Show in...

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Balance

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School sophomore Lindsay Wells works on the beam at Monday’s gymnastics meet with Milton.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Xin Nian Kuai Le!

BRIDGE SCHOOL STUDENTS parade around the school’s gymnasium with a Chinese dragon last week as part of an early celebration of the Chinese New Year. The Year of the Dragon begins Jan. 23.
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Don't do it!

A WEYBRIDGE COW seems to want to stick its tongue on a frozen metal fence pole last week just to see what will happen.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Frozen wonderland

BLOWN SNOW REVEALS patches of frozen swamp in Cornwall last Thursday morning.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Let freedom sing!

MEMBERS OF THE Middlebury College Spiritual Choir perform during the college’s Martin Luther King Day celebration Monday night in Mead Chapel. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Retro Windmill

LEARN ABOUT THE windmill Erik Andrus, pictured above, created to replace two gas-powered pumps...

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Bit by bit

A SNOW FENCE finally appears to have a job to do last Thursday morning, but the expected storm ended up severely lacking in the precipitation department.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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On the Edge

BRITTANY THOMAS, RIGHT, and other students in a Middlebury College winter term figure skating workshop cross the Chip Kenyon Arena ice last Thursday afternoon. Winter term workshops, often taught...


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FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh selectmen on Tuesday approved a roughly $1.619 million town budget for fiscal year 2013, but on Town Meeting Day...

Editorial

When President Barack Obama rejected a permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil 1,750 miles from the tar sands of western Canada to the refineries in Texas, it was more than a victory for Ripton environmentalist Bill McKibben against this one project: it was a rare victory against the special treatment the U.S. government has long given the oil industry...

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BRISTOL — Usually when the Vergennes and Mount Abraham union high school boys’...

Sports Column

“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things,” said the hallowed Penn State Coach Joe Paterno. As far as I could ever tell, during my formative years growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa., the only thing that ever did tie the two sides of the state together was Joe Paterno. Of course no one called him that. Everyone called him Joe Pa. He was a father figure for the state. People lived, breathed and died Joe Pa. With honor, virtue and sheer will, he was a leader of the state’s largest academic institution for more than half a century, raising...

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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School gymnastics team edged visiting Milton on Monday, 108.85-105.2, as senior Hailey LaFave won all four events and claimed the all-around crown. Also posting top-six finishes for MUHS were Christie VanAmburg, Maelys Michels, Lindsay Wells, Gabrielle Ingenthron, Kayla Evans and Emma Snyder-White...
The Dance Company of Middlebury presents its newest work, “Push: Moving History Forward,” on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Dance Theatre of the Mahaney Center for the Arts. The piece will explore some of the roots of American dance forms: swing, contact improvisation, hip-hop, and modern dance. Tiffany Rhynard, artist in residence in dance, is artistic director of the 2011-2012 Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM). She will create two pieces collaboratively with the dancers...

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