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Community forum: Racial attack echoes in Vermont history
Racism punched Vermonters hard in the face with the shotgun attack by three white night-riders on the home of a Black minister in Irasburg in the early hours…
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Community forum: Make your holidays COVID free
With the highest sustained rates of COVID in Addison County since the start of the pandemic, we are increasingly facing the unnerving reality of running out of room…
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Community forum: Slate Valley grateful to many
The overriding mission of the school board since the onset of the pandemic has been to keep our kids safe and to keep them in school.
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Community Forum: These veterans work to end all wars
It’s been 101 years since the armistice was signed that ended the First World War. That war was so horrific that it was viewed as the war to…
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Community forum: County climate group sees progress
This past summer, the Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County (CEAC) completed over 40 interviews with diverse community members.
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Community forum: BES problems merit drastic action
That one incident is merely a culminating example of policy and communication issues and utter ineptness that have plagued our district for several years.
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Community forum: Gifts can come unexpectedly
The possibility of cancer didn’t occur to me. I’d never had a “bad” mammogram. How could I be so sanguine?
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Community forum: What’s next for Middlebury?
We recently marked the end of our community’s largest infrastructure project and the single biggest change of character to our downtown since the town burned in 1891.
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Community forum: Board seeks reapportionment input
This week’s writer is Tom Little, chair of the Legislative Apportionment Board.The 2020 Census numbers for Vermont indicate that our little state grew by about 20,000 people over…
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Peter Burrows: Students need united community
This week’s writer is Peter Burrows, D.Ed., superintendent of the Addison Central School District, which serves Middlebury and six surrounding towns. When we voted in our seven towns…
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Opinion: Vermont not so green when it comes to ‘green’ energy
What, isn’t Vermont “Green”? Of course it is, right? Wrong. Green Mountain Power, which is owned by a Canadian natural gas distributor and supplies 70% of Vermont with…
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Vt. physicians: Prioritize our communities and protect schools
The American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont Chapter, Vermont Academy of Family Physicians and Vermont Medical Society join Governor Scott and the Vermont Department of Health in calling on Vermonters…