Danielle Marmer, from Dorset, Vermont, recently made history when she was named the new player development and scouting assistant for the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins.
Last week, Abenaki representatives from the Odanak First Nation addressed an uncomfortable, long-simmering dispute. Odanak citizens and officials said Vermont's state-recognized tribes are misrepresenting themselves as Abenaki – and profiting from it – when they are not Indigenous.
On May 1, farmworkers and their advocates will join together to call on Hannaford Supermarkets to join the Milk with Dignity program for the third year in a row.Milk with Dignity is a program created by Migrant Justice, a human rights organization founded and led by immigrant farmworkers in Vermont. It enlists the resources and market power of companies to improve labor and housing conditions on dairy farms.
In about one year by October 2022 Vermont s retail cannabis market is scheduled to go into place, and the state s Cannabis Control Board has already made so
The Most Costly Journey, is an initiative from the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury, along with several other partners, that shares the stories and experiences of migrant farmworkers in Vermont. The stories are told using illustrations drawn by New England cartoonists.Now, these stories have been compiled into an English language anthology that promises to be unlike almost any other book or graphic novel you’ve ever encountered.
VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb spoke with Julia Doucet, an outreach nurse and case manager with the Open Door Clinic, and Marek Bennett, a New Hampshire-based cartoonist and educator who illustrated three of the comics in the collection and helped design the book that collects them.