Abenaki Commission looks at tribal recognition, sets “broad, ambitious” agenda
The commission’s agenda included improving educational curriculum materials on Native American heritage and culture, the development of a teacher’s resource guide, and plans to discuss federal Title VII Indian education funding.
Rural Vermont post offices could be slated to close
There’s currently a bill in the U.S. Senate that would make it legal to close post offices that don’t make money, and not many do.
Foreclosed: One middle class couple’s journey into penury
Leslie Patenaude remains upset that, after a long history of paying bills on time, the bank was not more accommodating when she and her husband hit hard times.
Fungi to the rescue? Sterling grad wants to render asbestos nontoxic
McHardy: “When it comes to cleaning up toxic waste, scientists keep finding that nature knows best. By mimicking nature’s adaptive processes, the VAG mine site could be remediated.”
CODEPINK activist Diane Wilson may go to federal prison for Hayward stunt
Wilson wrote an account of her exploits as a 20-year environmental activist in an autobiography recently published by Vermont publisher Chelsea Green, “An Unreasonable Woman.”
How does a town LOSE an entire lake? A new book tells the story of Glover’s Runaway Pond
Two hundred years ago, with help from the local miller and about 50 of his friends and customers, it “ran away.” Today, it’s an unremarkable, brushy tract of land, unrecognizable as its former self except for a granite monument at a small rest area that commemorates its long ago existence.
Cantor finds common political ground in song
This music is about things that matter – enduring love, bad banking policy, revenge, war, the struggle, joys and lessons of rural life. And oysters.
New law regulates old outdoor wood boilers
Complaint-driven regulation gives neighbors recourse. Outdoor wood boilers within 200 feet of health care facilities, schools, and other public places, however, must be replaced.
Vermonters say immigration policy is failing migrant workers, dairy farms
It’s no secret that dairy farmers are counting on Mexican labor to keep going. It’s not a matter of saving money, though: They are paid what a U.S. citizen would earn.
Local police, advocates work to protect Vermont’s Mexican migrant workers from harassment
Middlebury Police Chief Hanley: “Everybody in our community is a member of that community, and we don’t care where they come from.”
