Christopher Ross


  • Community poem heaps praise, love on Bristol

    Community poem heaps praise, love on Bristol

    “Love Notes to Bristol” is a crowdsourced poetry project, a web of life spun by dozens of community members, whose moments of admiration, cherishing and yearning can be…

  • Proposed Lincoln airstrip sparks debate

    Proposed Lincoln airstrip sparks debate

    A recent decision by the town of Lincoln to permit a “restricted landing area” for aircraft on a private residential property has drawn criticism from neighbors and other…

  • Orb Weaver Creamery ceases operations

    Orb Weaver Creamery ceases operations

    The way the story spooled out over the next five years presents glaring examples of the challenges Vermont faces as it tries to put a younger face on…

  • Key issue could threaten MAUSD-ANWSD merger

    The ANWSD-MAUSD Merger Study Committee gave preliminary approval to an article of agreement that would allow a future merged district to close elementary schools if certain academic and financial…

  • Sweet musical gets a second chance

    Sweet musical gets a second chance

    Kristen Ginsburg assembled a production team, cast the roles and started rehearsing the show in January 2020. Opening night was scheduled for the first week of May. Then…

  • Lawmakers wrestle with Clean Heat Standard legislation

    Climate and energy activists say a Clean Heat Standard bill in the Vermont Senate doesn’t do enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Proposed bill raises bar for school district withdrawal

    Supporters of efforts by Lincoln and Starksboro to withdraw from the Mount Abraham Unified School District are casting wary eyes on a bill in the Legislature that would…

  • Regulations eyed for coyote hounding

    Every winter Shoreham resident Karima Borni braces herself for the return of the houndsmen and their dogs, which come to kill coyotes.

  • What the Clean Heat Standard will address

    The Clean Heat Standard bill looks to regulate greenhouse gasses coming from biofuels, wood and electricity.

  • College gets $25M to study ‘conflict transformation’

    College gets $25M to study ‘conflict transformation’

    Middlebury College has received a $25 million grant to advance its work on what President Laurie Patton has called “one of the most pressing issues of the 21st…