Becky Dayton
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Ways of Seeing: Being OK, even if confronting ‘all this’
With the threat of authoritarianism on the rise and daily news stories of one or another government agency being gutted by an unelected plutocrat, I am disturbed, but…
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Letter to the editor: Cullinane’s knowledge, experience benefit ACSD
As a business and property owner in Middlebury, homeowner in Cornwall, and taxpayer in both, I would like to express my categorical support of Mary Cullinane for the…
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Letter to the editor: ‘Gutting it out’ was ill-put
While I appreciate the Independent’s effort to highlight the grit on display by downtown Middlebury businesses in John Flowers’s Aug. 6 article, “Middlebury shops tough it out,” I take exception…
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Book review: The Yellow House: A Memoir — by Sarah M. Broome
(Grove Press) A 2019 National Book Award winner and a New York Times Top 10 Book, Sarah Broome’s “The Yellow House” is the history of a home, the…
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Book review: The Nickel Boys — by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys — by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” is a masterpiece of fiction rooted firmly — and disturbingly — in fact. Inspired by…