After a long debate over whether to raise the Black Lives Matter flag in City Hall Park, voters approved a charter change that will prohibit non-official flags from flying on city property.
Barre votes to prohibit non-official flags on city property
Author: James Finn
James is a senior at Middlebury College majoring in history and Spanish. He is currently editor at large at the Middlebury Campus, having previously served as managing editor, news editor and in several other roles there. James was a reporter this summer at the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and earlier was an intern at the Addison County Independent.
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