Highway 55 sheep crossing to summer grazing grounds
Vehicle traffic paused near the intersection of Highway 55 and Beacon Light Road to make way for a mass of wooly sheep carrying out a longstanding tradition
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Vehicle traffic paused near the intersection of Highway 55 and Beacon Light Road to make way for a mass of wooly sheep carrying out a longstanding tradition
"Transfiguration Farm II" Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt, the founders and owners of Salisbury's Blue Ledge Farm, met as undergrads at Bates College in Maine. During a semester studying art and culture in Florence, Italy, the couple began dreaming of farming, as well as making and selling artisan cheese. "Food is really one of our greatest expressions," Sessions said. "We don't have to create such delicious food, but we do. And what does that say about humanity? That it's not enough just to exist. We want to enjoy our time." In 2000, Sessions and...
Share May 03, 2021, 9:50 PM The writer, co-founder of a Jewish news site called "Nu? Detroit," revisits a change, begun in the early 1960s, when black students from Royal Oak Township attended junior high and high school in Oak Park, then predominantly Jewish. His column is republished with permission. By Mark Jacobs (Photos: Revoir yearbook) Robert Brown recently shared memories of Oak Park High School. Robert and I graduated in 1973. Aside from the sentimental stories about high school life, Robert touched on a topic which, even to this day, has not been fully examined: ...
By: Addison Independent staff BRISTOL RESIDENT STEVE Brown delivers his completed ballots to election worker (and town selectboard member) John “Peeker” Heffernan during brisk voting in the basement of Holley Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Independent photo/John Flowers LAURA ASERMILY, WHOSE appointment to fill a vacancy on the Middlebury selectboard expired on Tuesday, pauses to say Hi while handing out ballots at the Middlebury polls in the Recreation Center. Independent photo/Megan James ADDISON SELECTBOARD MEMBERS Roger Waterman, left, Rob Hunt and Steve Torrey gather up their town r...
By: Addison Independent staff AFTER MANY YEARS holding the Addison town meeting in the nearby elementary school, municipal officials decided to hold this year’s annual gathering in the Addison Town Hall building off Route 22A at the four corners next to the Baptist church. Selectboard members believe the historic building has enough room for meeting participants to safely social distance. Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy THE PANTON TOWN shed off Panton Road is in poor condition, and officials will ask residents on Town Meeting Day to spend $270,000 to build a new shed for salt, sand and ...