College to educate 31 freshmen in Copenhagen

This spring, Middlebury College announced a new program for first-year students — the Middlebury-Copenhagen First Year Program.

During the school year, every day without fail, at 12:30 p.m., 88-year-old George Matthew Jr. ascends the 75-step staircase of the Middlebury College Chapel to play music that rings out for the entire campus to hear. He doesn’t tote his instrument along w … (read more)

Married couple Fred and Mary Anne Hoff of Bristol retired in the early 2000s — Mary Anne, now 84, from a career as a special education teacher and Fred, 81, as a mechanical designer.

On June 25, 2023, the 40th anniversary of the state of Vermont’s first Pride march, Middlebury hosted its second annual Pride festival on the Middlebury Town Green.

As Justice Elijah wraps up her two year Americorps stint in Addison County, Emily Joselson and John Barstow are trying to give her something she has never had —  a financial cushion.

As a consumer of visual and performing arts, Vergennes artist Keilani Lime is very aware of the way art can be less accessible to people with disabilities, despite the fact that laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, encourage public venue … (read more)

The United States Department of Agriculture’s final tally of this spring’s season showed that Vermont is once again the leading producer of maple syrup nationally. 

The Vergennes Union High School Class of 2023 included people who were different in many ways. But the young women and young men who marched across the stage at the June 9 graduation found ways to form a cohesive whole. 

On Tuesday, June 20, students at Vergennes Union High School along with a big swath of the broader community hosted Vergennes’s first ever Pride Parade and celebration as a direct response to a talk by an anti-trans activist at VUHS.

A group advocating “parents’ rights” to host anti-transgender advocate speaker at school library next week.

For the second year in a row, MiddPride, a project of the Teen Center, this month is hosting events geared toward queer and trans youth.