On the Road: Snapshots from a New England Summer
By Nora Peachin | September 13, 2018A Middlebury student documents her New England road trip.
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Bernie Sanders Holds Labor Day Rally in Middlebury
By Benjy Renton | September 5, 2018[gallery size="medium" ids="39469,39466,39468,39470,39471"] Crowds gathered on the Town Green in Middlebury on Monday, September 3 for the annual Labor Day Rally. Similar to previous instances of the event, Senator Bernie Sanders attended and was the culminating speaker in a three-hour lineup, which ...
Notes from a day at the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
By Amelia Pollard | August 29, 2018Tasting and maneuvering our way through more cheese than we care to admit.
Farmers’ Market Kicks Off Spring Season
By Jaehee Park | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39020,39021,39022,39023,39024"] The Middlebury Farmers’ Market (MFM) started its summer market season last Saturday, May 5, featuring a variety of products including fresh produce, prepared foods and other Vermont crafts. This year’s outdoor summer market will run every Saturday and ...
State Renews Effort to Address Opioid Addiction
By Isabel Emsfeld | May 9, 2018Every day, over 115 people die from an opioid overdose in the United States. The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50 is drug overdose. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the “economic burden” of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States ...
College Executives Make Up Elite of Addison County
By Amelia Pollard | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39002,39004,39003"] In recent months, executive pay has sparked controversy among faculty, staff and students as tax forms and op-eds have prompted a negative response to the salaries of the college’s top administrators. Executives at universities across the country earn high salaries ...
Marijuana in Vermont: What’s Been Happening and What’s to Come
By Kenshin Cho | May 9, 2018Over the past year, the legal use of marijuana has been attracting more and more attention in Vermont. Just last month, PhytoCare, a cannabis company from Waterbury, opened the state’s fifth licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Bennington. The dispensary is capitalizing on the interest in cannabis ...
Maple Run Brings Together College and Town
By Chloe Fleischier | May 9, 2018[gallery ids="39016,39014,39010,39015,39008,39013,39012,39017,39007,39009,39011"] Over the past weekend, Middlebury students and townspeople alike laced up their sneakers to join in the Middlebury Maple Run. This half marathon and relay run, which took place on Sunday, May 6, is nicknamed “The Sweetest ...
Local Masseur Charged With Voyeurism
By Ally Murphy | May 2, 2018A local masseur was charged with four counts of voyeurism after he allegedly videotaped four female customers undressing at his business. The masseur, Roger Schmidt, 53, owner of Roger’s Relaxing Massage Therapy on Court Street in Middlebury, pleaded not guilty in Addison Superior Court on April ...
Single Occupancy Restrooms Move Toward “Gender Free”
By Maria Kaouris | May 2, 2018MONTPELIER — In recent years, a movement towards inclusivity has begun the refamig of binaries regarding gender and sex to longer be based on those assigned at birth. The proliferation of these evolving ideas has turned the heads of scientists, lawmakers and others as they grapple with dismantling ...
Happy 20th, Higher Ground!
By Elizabeth Srulevich | May 2, 2018BURLINGTON - This past month, South Burlington’s foremost music venue, Higher Ground, celebrated twenty years of successful operation. The establishment’s prosperity rests on a drive for constant improvement, and its transformative history and lasting impact on the community, including on Middlebury ...
Green Mountains Welcome its First Bike Share
By Stefan Asamoah | May 2, 2018BURLINGTON — Vermont and its varying terrain, hail as a place where cycling dominates the eclectic options of recreational activities. As summer months approach, the enchantment of warmer weather attracts cyclers who were reluctantly on hiatus. These cyclers will find some comfort in knowing that ...
Students Express Interest in State “Green Up Day”
By Kenzo Okazaki | May 2, 2018MIDDLEBURY - Vermont has a rich history of environmental sustainability - its residents pride themselves on their deep connection to the nature in which they live. Nowhere is this commitment to environmental stewardship more apparent than in efforts like “Green Up Day,” which has been a Vermont ...
Earth Day Brings Students and Local Organizations Together
By Chris Gernon | April 25, 2018Whether it’s the small stickers under the light switches that say “Be bright and turn off the light!” or getting rid of the to-go boxes, Middlebury’s commitment to environmental sustainability is displayed often and unabashedly. This past Sunday, Apr. 22, as a celebration of Earth Day, local ...
Alumni Reflect on Post-Grad Life in Vermont
By Kenshin Cho | April 25, 2018MIDDLEBURY — Standing between the exposed brick walls and raw wooden beams of his office, Evan Deutsch ’12.5 began describing his path from graduation to where he now works, at a design agency he co-founded with fellow Middlebury alum Jon Portman ’13 four years ago. His story— turning down a ...
Seven Middlebury Hotspots Welcome Restaurant Week
By Rachel Cohen | April 25, 2018MIDDLEBURY — The 9th annual Vermont Restaurant Week presented by Vermont Federal Credit Union and organized by Seven Days, a Burlington-based newspaper, began on Friday, April 20. One hundred and fifteen restaurants from all over the state, including twenty first-time restaurants, are participating ...
Students Design Homes for Habitat for Humanity
By Jaehee Park | April 25, 2018Architecture students here are collaborating this spring and next fall semester with Addison County’s branch of Habitat for Humanity on a project to design two housing units. The houses will be built in spring 2019 on a single lot on Seymour Street. Habitat for Humanity is an international and nonprofit ...
Public Radio Journalist Speaks on Fake News
By Nicole Pollack | April 25, 2018MIDDLEBURY — “We are in a perilous place for journalism right now,” said Jane Lindholm, host of Vermont Public Radio’s award-winning program Vermont Edition, in this year’s Robert van de Velde ’75 Memorial Lecture. She laid out the need for greater transparency, diversity of perspectives ...
VT Supreme Court: Sawyer Cannot Be Held Without Bail
By Sadie Housberg | April 18, 2018MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Sawyer on Wed. Apr. 11 on the question of bail. The decision means that the 18-year-old accused of planning a shooting at Fair Haven Union High School in Rutland, VT earlier this year cannot be held without bail on the basis that his actions ...
Town Hall Theater Pitches Beautified Fence Project
By James Finn | April 18, 2018MIDDLEBURY —The Town Hall Theater is planning the installation of a so-called chain link gallery in Triangle Park that will add color to downtown Middlebury amidst construction set to begin in the area in the coming weeks. Through the help of a $75,000 grant provided by the Vermont Agency of Transportation, ...