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Top Ten 2022: Recreational cannabis sold legally
Smoking or even possessing cannabis became illegal in the United States for the most part during the Great Depression. Generations of American lived in a society that looked…
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Top Ten 2022: Online
The Addison Independent news team picked the top 10 stories you just read, but how would readers pick Addison County’s top 10 stories of 2022? One measure is…
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Top 10 of 2021: COVID concerns continue
The biggest story of our lifetimes dragged on through all of 2021 as the story of COVID-19 followed an arc through the year.
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Top 10 of 2021: Some towns want their elementary schools back
School consolidation and closure continued to dominate local public education discussions this past year, as districts searched for solutions to the long-term problems of declining enrollment and rising…
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Top 10 of 2021: Dearth of workers leaves some businesses scrambling
Addison County businesses started waking up from their collective, COVID-induced slumber in early 2021, when state and federal authorities began to lift pandemic restrictions. But those same businesses…
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Top 10 of 2021: Hard year puts some students in crisis
Students arrived on the first day of the 2021-2022 school year believing they’d be able to get rid of their masks after a couple of weeks. Four months…
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Top 10 of 2021: Middlebury wraps up 4 years of ‘big dig’ rail project
Those who reside, shop, work and travel through downtown Middlebury celebrated the completion of a complex, $72 million rail tunnel project in 2021, a massive undertaking that spanned…
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Top 10 of 2021: Housing costs spike, create challenges
The housing news was great in Addison County in 2021. Great, that is, if you were a residential property seller and had somewhere already lined up for your…
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Top 10 of 2021: Renewable energy projects finally come to the fore
Work on renewable energy projects made quiet but significant progress in our communities this past year.
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Top 10 of 2021: Local economic development projects get funding
The pandemic provided an opportunity for local entrepreneurs to reimagine their businesses — or create new ones.
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Top 10 of 2021: High school sports are back, triumph, heartbreak and all
The best thing about the 2021 local sports seasons was that there were 2021 sports seasons after the pandemic shortened, canceled or threatened them in 2020.
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Top 10 of 2021: Live music and events return
A few months into 2021 we saw the return of in-person gatherings, albeit most of them outside — and with it we resurrected our actual live events calendar.
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The top 10 stories of 2020
#1 COVID: THE STORY THAT AFFECTED EVERYONE ALL YEAR Early in 2020 word began to reach the U.S. and Addison County of a deadly respiratory disease striking a…
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Top 10 stories of 2019
ADDISON COUNTY — A lot can happen in a year. Each January we sit down to discuss the stories we have covered over the last 52 weeks to…
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Top 10: What’s the future of small, rural schools?
ADDISON COUNTY — In 2019 all three of Addison County’s unified school districts wrestled — or began to cast a wary eye on — the thorny issue of…
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Top 10: People demand climate action
Climate justice activism may have reached a critical turning point in 2019. The largest climate protest in history was held in September and Greta Thunberg, a 17-year-old Swedish…