Letter to the editor: Support the county’s migrant workers

Patty Lewis’s well-researched and forceful letter in the Independent of last week explains the grave dangers posed by a policy of wide-scale deportation. Many undocumented residents, without whom our dairy industry and other aspects of our local economy would be significantly weakened, are becoming terrified.

Letter to the editor: SCOTUS needs ethics reform

The Supreme Court has a serious ethics problem, and the latest revelations about Clarence Thomas should be alarming to every American.

Letter to the editor: Time to get rid of the filibuster

We are in agreement with organizers from Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action, who observed, “We are seeing the worst voter suppression since Reconstruction,” and who termed the current extreme GOP voter suppression efforts, “Jim Crow 2.0.” We are also aware … (read more)

Professional actor joins college students in ‘One Flea Spare’

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College Department of Theatre and Dance will present “One Flea Spare” directed by Cláudio Medeiros, Nov. 21-23, in Wright Memorial Theatre. The year is 1665. The setting is London, a city in the throes of the devastation caused … (read more)