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Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierce's 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 don't have a store, you can't really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. It's a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – and the Vermont brand – contend with today's economic forces. From Albany in the state's north...

Don't 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-focused school system for grades kindergarten through eighth grade. There was nary a mention of Act 46,...

Photo: Aerial rendering of Colchester Exit 16. Courtesy Photo. by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine While the Agency of Transportation's list of highway projects this year is prodigious (see below), the agency does a lot more than replace worn pavement and fix bridges on Vermont's 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 other infrastructure chores. These other projects, often managed by towns and cities, tend to be mo...

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 either Mondays and Tuesdays, or Thursdays and Fridays, with the balance of their studies conducted onli...

Christal Brown (left) and Lida Winfield in 'Same but Different' 1. Compare and Contrast Christal Brown and Lida Winfield have a lot in common: They're 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 differences and comment on race, age and gender. A Q&A with the artists follows a free broadcast on...