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Video: The ceremonial first train
On Friday morning, a ceremonial first train took the inaugural journey through the brand-new rail tunnel in Middlebury, marking the end of the 10-week shutdown of downtown. The…
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Video: Preparing to install the new tunnel
In our latest video from the Middlebury construction zone, we talk to project manager John Whitaker about the next big phase: the installation of the precast concrete tunnel…
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Video: How to get around downtown
The removal of Middlebury’s Main Street bridge this past Monday marked the beginning of a 10-week intense phase of the rail tunnel construction project. For those who love…
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Video: Bye-bye, Main Street bridge!
On Monday, July 13, crews removed Middlebury’s Main Street bridge to make way for the construction of a new rail tunnel. The bridge removal marked the start of…
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Video: Giant crane kicks off Middlebury’s downtown construction
The Addison Independent is teaming up with Middlebury Community Television this summer to produce weekly video dispatches from the rail bridges project in downtown Middlebury. In the first one, we…
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Local felines go to work to earn their keep
MIDDLEBURY — Jackie was a feral stray cat when she arrived at Homeward Bound, Addison County’s Humane Society, two years ago. Severe flea dermatitis made her back almost…
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Crows flock to downtown Middlebury
If you’ve walked around downtown Middlebury at dusk this winter, you’ve seen them: thousands of crows streaming across the sky, gathering in trees, raucously caw-cawing. What are they…
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Stone Soup
At Quarry Hill School in Middlebury, November is all about Stone Soup. Three- and 4-year-olds spend the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving immersing themselves in the classic tale…
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The Great Apgar Pumpkin
Every October for the last two decades, Jim Apgar has carved a giant pumpkin, hoisted it onto the roof of his truck, strapped it down with rope and…
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When the Oxford Punch Needle went viral
Amy Oxford invented an ergonomic rug-hooking needle in 1995. Since then, she’s been running her business and teaching rug hooking from an old farmhouse in Cornwall, Vermont. But…
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Closing day at Carol’s
Carol’s Hungry Mind closed for good on August 8, 2018. The coffee shop on Middlebury’s Merchant’s Row has served as a bustling gathering place for more than 13…
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Brooms by hand in Middlebury
Janelle Higdon makes brooms on a 19th-century Shaker vice — in a garage out behind a Middlebury law office. An Addison Independent video.