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Mia Schultz has watched three other Black women in Vermont leave leadership posts in the...

Mia Schultz has watched three other Black women in Vermont leave leadership posts in the...

Thomas Franco was an aspiring doctor when he realized that his real passion was policy. While a premed student at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, Franco volunteered at a free health clinic outside of Cleveland. Talking to the patients helped him recognize the societal inequities that lead to poverty and, in turn, poor health outcomes. "It was just like this moment where I realized, OK, if I'm going to make a difference, and I am going to change the narrative here, I have to dig deeper," Franco said. That change in direction ultimately helped lead 25-year-old Fran...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — The Mount Anthony Union High School board voted 6-2 to censure fellow board member Edward Letourneau for comments he made earlier this year concerning race and racial issues, including Black Lives Matter. Carrie Bond moved for Letourneau’s censure during the board’s monthly meeting Wednesday night, and Leon Johnson seconded her motion. Voting yes were Bond, Johnson, chair Tim Holbrook, David Durfee, Amy Dobson and Ron Higgins. Voting no were Jackie Kelly and Fran Kinney. None of those who supported the censure s...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — Bennington resident Mia Schultz, chairwoman of the Bennington Town Democratic Party, has been elected president of the Rutland Area Chapter of the Vermont NAACP. She said she hopes to use the two-year position to continue the historical organization’s fight for racial justice. Schultz will become president January 1 when she succeeds Tabitha Moore, who announced in September she was stepping down due to months of harassment. Moore described threats and harassment of herself and her family including the vandalism of a...