Black Lives Matter protests spread across county

ADDISON COUNTY — Fed up with ingrained racism in America, nearly 1,000 people in Addison County took part in public marches and demonstrations in the past week. It’s a number that seems to be growing locally since protests began around the country after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a Black man, on May 25. People rallied, waved homemade signs and took a knee in silence at various demonstrations in Vergennes, Bristol and Middlebury in the past seven days.  While hundreds of people t … (read more)

BRISTOL — More than 350 people attended a peaceful vigil on the Bristol town green Tuesday afternoon to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and to mourn the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed on May 25 by a whit … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY AND BRANDON — People started gathering in College Park, the former site of the Middlebury town offices, a little before 6 p.m. on Saturday. As the numbers swelled it became obvious that pandemic or not many Vermonters were so upset that the … (read more)

Take a knee for the millions kidnapped from Africa and packed into the holds of slave ships. Take a knee for those slaves who worked for NOTHING other than maybe food, clothing, and shelter. Take a knee for the tens of thousands who were kept and bred lik … (read more)

Take a knee for the millions kidnapped from Africa and packed into the holds of slave ships. Take a knee for those slaves who worked for NOTHING other than maybe food, clothing, and shelter. Take a knee for the tens of thousands who were kept and bred lik … (read more)