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Arts + Culture
Keeping Plan BTV-South End Arty
If you want to share civic-planning information with artists, designers, craftspeople and other creative-economy types, posting dense consultants’ reports or the minutes of snooze-worthy public… -
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At the Junction of State and Federal Law, I-91 Checkpoint Becomes Site of Legal Collision
Local Matters
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and highway-driving Vermonters shared a victory last week. The Department of… -
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Food + Drink
Maple Makeover? Vermonters Discover a New Sugaring Technique
Local Matters
Vermont’s maple syrup industry may be rich in tradition, but that hasn’t stopped its producers from embracing new technologies. Sap buckets have given way… -
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Disharmony on Prospect Street: A Dispute Between Neighbors Strikes a Sour Note
Adam Buchwald is a luthier. He makes mandolins and guitars for a living in his garage on Burlington’s South Prospect Street. For the most… -
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Treatment or Trial? Growing 'Rapid-Intervention' Program Gives Addicted Offenders a Choice
Local Matters
Three defendants sat at a table in a small office inside the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s Office, describing their addictions to heroin and prescription… -
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Food + Drink
Raw Deal? Farmers Push Back Against Unpasteurized Milk Regulations
Local Matters
Depending upon whom you ask, raw milk is either nature’s elixir or a foodborne illness waiting to happen. “This is an incredibly emotional issue,”… -
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Arts + Culture
Burlington-Area Tibetans Reflect on Life in Exile
It’s minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit as Kalsang Gangjong Gesar Tsang hurries across the snow-covered parking lot of the G.G.T. Tibet Inn, the 21-room motel on… -
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Arts + Culture
At the Fleming Museum, Contemporary Tibetan Art Flouts Anonymity
Anonymity and self-expression may seem incompatible, yet both are currents that run through and electrify “Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art.” These are works not previously seen… -
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Arts + Culture
WTF: Whatever Happened to Burlington's Ban on Excessive Car Idling?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: We just had to ask...
Walking up Marble Avenue on a recent 35-degree morning, I noticed a parked car idling with no one in it. Presumably the owner didn’t… -
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Health Experts Laud New Woodstove Rules; Stove Makers Doubt They'll Clear the Air
Local Matters
Sarah Cosgrove works at ground zero for Vermont asthmatics. The 35-year-old respiratory therapist serves as an asthma educator and tobacco-cessation specialist for Rutland Regional… -
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Into the Wilds: Backcountry Skiers Push for State Help in Carving New Glades
Local Matters
Rochester is surrounded on both sides by the sloping Green Mountains, but the central Vermont town doesn’t look much like a ski area. It… -
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They Didn't Know His Name: New Details Emerge on Fatal Burlington Police Shooting
Local Matters
Last week, the Burlington City Council passed a resolution urging city police to improve their handling of mentally ill subjects, prompted by the killing… -
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Vermont's Prisons Struggle to Accommodate an Aging Population
Gray is the New Orange
An old man, hunched over and weak, scoots to the edge of his bed and struggles, slowly, into a pair of loose gray sweatpants.… -
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Arts + Culture
UVM Slavery Study Challenges Vermont's Abolitionist Rep
Local Matters
Vermont’s founding family — the Ethan Allen clan — is generally extolled as a collection of freedom fighters embodying the qualities of courage, independence… -
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Chittenden County Loses a Beloved Legislator: Sen. Sally Fox, 1951-2014
Local Matters
Just three days after they returned to Montpelier last Tuesday, Vermont legislators received the worst of news: They had lost one of their own.… -
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Twenty-Five Years and 6,300 People Later: A Vermont Refugee Report
Local Matters
Their polychromatic presence is evident every day in Chittenden County’s supermarkets, schools and streets: Somali women in kaleidoscopic kangas brightening the Old North End;… -
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Diagnosing the Drug Deal: Did Shumlin Overstate the Case for Vermont's Opiate "Crisis"?
Local Matters
Gov. Peter Shumlin grabbed state and national headlines last week when he used his State of the State address to launch a campaign against… -
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Public to Private: Could "Conversion" Become a Trend in Vermont Schools?
Local Matters
When North Bennington residents voted to shutter their public school, it wasn’t because of rising teacher pay or declining test scores. Far from it:… -
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The Old College Try: In Vermont, "Affinity Marketing" Targets Alumni
Local Matters
Imagine that you get a letter from an insurance company. Because you or your child attended a certain college, the letter enthuses, you could… -
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Violent Odyssey: Kidnapping Victim Speaks for First Time About Terrifying Road Trip
Local Matters
Steve Rodimon lay in the parking lot of a St. Johnsbury shopping center, blood gushing from bullet holes in his stomach and leg. Rodimon… -
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Arts + Culture
English-Language Learners Team Up with Elders to Tell Stories
At first glance, Sheila Carpenter and Alexis Wea Mbengue wouldn’t appear to have a lot in common. Carpenter, a white-haired 71-year-old from Rutland, used… -
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Updating Some of Vermont's Top News Stories of 2013
Most of the big news stories of 2013 are still getting ink — and pixels: The F-35 fight ain’t over yet — or so say opponents. Victims… -
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Arts + Culture
Jessamyn West Documents Vermont Public Libraries
“I love love love the Roxbury Library!” declares Jessamyn West, who might be the librarian laureate of Vermont, if there were such a thing.… -
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Is This ID for Real? New Vermont Card Stirs Privacy Worries
Local Matters
In New Hampshire, protesters quoted Patrick Henry in their successful battle against a federally initiated identity card known as “Real ID.” In Montana, the… -
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Homeless for the Holidays
Local Matters
Ask Michael Sweeney how he and his family ended up at Harbor Place, a motel-turned-shelter on Shelburne Road, and the jovial 55-year-old sums it…
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