Lawyer Cindy Hill uses creative writing to further advocacy efforts

Cindy Hill has dedicated her life to raising awareness and advocating for social justice issues in Vermont and around the world. In part she does that work in the courthouse, where she practices public-interest environmental law.

Letter to the editor: Rude behavior prevented full enjoyment of show

I’ve just returned from seeing “Nightfires” at the Town Hall Theater — an extraordinary show for which the cast expended many hours of planning and practice and were generous in sharing their talent and passion with our community.

Poetry: Threads of light and silver

Silver Solstice By Cindy Hill   Pale sun slides low across the silver sky and softly spins a thread of silver light to hold the force of day against the night, the all-entombing darkness to defy. Like mycorrhizal filaments through earth or water pulsing u … (read more)

Letter to the editor: Diner makeover called ‘soulless’

The evisceration of the Park Diner by its conversion from the heart of working-class Middlebury to a tableau beside which the town’s elite can sip wine and eat from a prohibitively expensive out-of-town French restaurant ‘food truck’ while taking selfies … (read more)