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Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierces Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine "If you dont have a store, you cant really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. Its a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – ...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — Four years of acrimony, distrust and anger over Act 46 in this town ended Wednesday with a unanimous vote by the Vermont Board of Education, approving Westminster’s plan to reestablish its own school district. During a virtual meeting, the board heard from Westminster Town Moderator David Major about the town’s plans to re-establish its school district and resume what it had for generations — a community-focu...

Photo: Aerial rendering of Colchester Exit 16. Courtesy Photo. by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine While the Agency of Transportations list of highway projects this year is prodigious (see below), the agency does a lot more than replace worn pavement and fix bridges on Vermonts state, federal and interstate roadways. AOT and its many partners also reconfigure city streets, maintain state-owned rail corridors, develop bicycle-pedestrian trails, build sidewalks, and perform an abundance of o...

Thu, 04/15/2021 - 4:31pm meganj By:  John Flowers MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury-area secondary school-age students on Monday, May 3, will begin attending in-person classes four days a week, instead of the current two. Addison Central School District Superintendent Peter Burrows announced the transition in a Wednesday, April 15, email to the school community. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, middle- and high school students have been attending in-person classes on eit...

Christal Brown (left) and Lida Winfield in Same but Different 1. Compare and Contrast Christal Brown and Lida Winfield have a lot in common: Theyre both Vermonters, dance artists and Middlebury College faculty members. But in some things they contrast, including their race, geographical origins and experiences in education. Brown and Winfield team up in the dance and spoken-word duet Same but Different, in which they explore their similarities and di...

Wed, 03/10/2021 - 3:48pm sarahp EMILY TAYLOR ANDREWS LEEDS MIDDLEBURY — Emily Taylor Andrews Leeds, of Middlebury, Vt., died peacefully on March 2, 2021, following a mercifully short battle with cancer. Emily loved being active outdoors and sharing her love of nature and animals. She was a ski instructor at Catamount, Otis Ridge and Butternut ski areas in Massachusetts; Keystone and Berthoud Pass ski areas in Colorado; and the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Vermont...

David Newhouse, who led The Patriot-News to a Pulitzer Prize, has died Updated Mar 05, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 David Newhouse bids farewell to the newsroom during his last day as editor of The Patriot-News on May 24, 2012. Joe Hermitt, The Patriot-News Facebook Share David Newhouse, who led The Patriot-News and PennLive to a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State, died Thursday after a 14-year battle with leukemia. He was 65. During his tenure, the newsroom unc...

David Newhouse, who led Patriot-News and PennLive to Pulitzer with Sandusky coverage, has died Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 David Newhouse bids farewell to the newsroom during his last day as editor of The Patriot-News on May 24, 2012. Joe Hermitt, The Patriot-News Facebook Share David Newhouse, who led The Patriot-News and PennLive to a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State, died Thursday after a 14-year battle with leukemia. He was 65. During his ...

By:  RIPTON’S CHOICE: A LESSON IN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT The decision by Addison Central Supervisory Union district voters to allow Ripton to withdraw from the district is a lesson in civic engagement, studious work and diligence on the part of proponents, and trusting the process — even if that process presented high hurdles to surmount. In the end, after a two-year effort by Ripton residents to “save their school,” district voters decided they had the right to determine their own school’...

Caitlin Canty 1. Country Song "On Where is the Heart of My Country, Canty paints a haunting portrait of a country in distress," wrote American Songwriter of Caitlin Cantys September 2020 single. The Vermont native has delivered her original Americana numbers from stages across the United States, opening for the likes of Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Milk Carton Kids. Acoustic guitar in hand, the singer-songwriter treats fans to an online performance...