Steve James


  • World Cup gives Americans a new generation of sports heroes

    World Cup gives Americans a new generation of sports heroes

    By Steve James, an Englishman who was a longtime journalist with UPI and Reuters before becoming the Independent’s staff photographer.

  • Tweens learn about citizenship

    Tweens learn about citizenship

    Sixth-graders from across Addison Central School District spent last Wednesday learning how they can have an impact on the world they are stepping into.

  • First festival satisfies chocolate enthusiasts

    First festival satisfies chocolate enthusiasts

    Millions of us are chocoholics, and more than 150 of them turned up on Sunday for the inaugural Vermont Chocolate Festival.

  • Foxglove Farm offers sweet lessons

    Foxglove Farm offers sweet lessons

    Maple syrup — it’s synonymous with Vermont, which produces more than half the nation’s supply. But how do you get that sublime nectar from trees?

  • Looking for a few good men–and women

    Looking for a few good men–and women

    The Marquis Theater in Middlebury was transported back 250 years as Revolutionary War re-enactors filled the movie house in a drive to recruit members for Col. Seth Warner’s…

  • Middlebury ‘Febs’ celebrate graduation by skiing

    Middlebury ‘Febs’ celebrate graduation by skiing

    Middlebury College honored members of the class of 2025.5 with graduation ceremonies at Virtue Fieldhouse then the midyear graduates then headed to the Snowbowl for the traditional ski-down…

  • Pictures tell the story of fall sports

    Pictures tell the story of fall sports

    Words can also only capture so much of what happens on the field and the trails and in the gym. That’s why we send Steve James and his…

  • Winter sports photos told stories

    Winter sports photos told stories

    Pictures can be painted with words. Emotions can be captured. Drama can be described. That said, there is nothing like a visual image to make some messages hit…

  • Photos added drama to tales of fall sports season

    Photos added drama to tales of fall sports season

    During the course of the high school season, I collected my favorites of Steve James’s work. For sure, they all demonstrate graphic quality, but they also resonated in…

  • Beaver deceiver installed in Ripton

    Beaver deceiver installed in Ripton

    Beaver expert Skip Lisle of Grafton last Thursday constructed a flow device at a culvert under Route 125 near the Robert Frost Interpretive Trail in Ripton.

  • Big fire destroys Tarkey’s Lodge on Lake Dunmore

    Big fire destroys Tarkey’s Lodge on Lake Dunmore

    A fire consumed Tarkey’s Lodge near Lake Dunmore in Salisbury on Monday afternoon. No one was hurt in the five-alarm fire.

  • East Middlebury salutes its veterans with a cherished flag

    East Middlebury salutes its veterans with a cherished flag

    EAST MIDDLEBURY — Early Wednesday morning, a trio of East Middlebury residents gathered at their village’s Sarah Partridge Community House and Library to raise a special flag on…

  • Volunteers fix what’s broken at the Repair Fair

    Volunteers fix what’s broken at the Repair Fair

    MIDDLEBURY — More than 60 hopeful souls dragged in their broken small appliances, kitchen tools, bicycles, jewelry, torn or worn clothing and even a busted doorbell to The…

  • Monkton mason specializes in dry stone walls

    Monkton mason specializes in dry stone walls

    SUDBURY — Dry stone walls are a familiar tradition in New England, but who builds and repairs them nowadays?  Jamie Masefield, for one!  The mason from Monkton was…