Staged reading series continues with ‘Darwin in Malibu’

Once you know something — whether it is about DNA or what your boyfriend did last night — nothing is ever quite the same again. Catch the staged reading of “Darwin in Malibu” on June 28 in Middlebury.

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 w … (read more)

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)