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Time running out at Statehouse for education reform bill
MIDDLEBURY — Local lawmakers on Monday were unsure whether a sweeping bill calling for expansion of public school districts would...
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VUHS spending plan will cut teacher jobs
VERGENNES — In a packed high school library that has become characteristic of recent board meetings, the Vergennes Union High School...
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My country 'tis of thee

MEMBERS OF THE Beeman Elementary School chorus sing during the naturalization ceremony held in the New Haven Town Hall Monday afternoon. The school’s third-...

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Taking the oath

TWENTY-ONE IMMIGRANTS give their Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony in New Haven Monday.

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Ready to serve again

VETERANS FROM AMERICAN Legion Post 19 in Bristol get ready to serve as the color guard at Monday’s naturalization ceremony in New Haven.

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Game on

SKYLER SHUTE GETS ready to snag the ball during a practice of the Vermont Youth Rugby Association team that was recently formed by the Bristol Recreation Department and...

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Tacklin' time

SARAH MULLER COMPLETES a tackling drill with her Bristol Recreation Department and Hub Teen Center rugby team after school Monday afternoon.

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Famous Vermonters

LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT third- and fourth-graders from Bingham Memorial School in Cornwall presented live portraits of famous Vermonters. Each student chose their favorite...

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Vermonter wax museum

AMONG THE FAMOUS Vermonters, or those who influenced Vermonters, who Cornwall third- and fourth-graders portrayed at a “wax museum” last Wednesday were, from...

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Pop go the plays

THE TOWN HALL Theater in Middlebury presented six very new 10-minute plays on Saturday night as part of its Pop-up Plays event. The theater presented a group of...

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Quick run through

ACTORS KENDRA GRATTON, left, Paul Schnabel and Sarah Stone rehearse one of the six “Pop-up Plays” written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours at Town...

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Unwanted wonderland

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE LOOKS resplendent in a fresh coat of snow Wednesday morning.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Welcome to America: New citizens take oath in New Haven ceremony
NEW HAVEN — John Ben Modi stood solemnly in a neatly pressed gray suit, eyes closed, his right hand raised. The Hon. Judge John M. Conroy,...
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Miller gives business a voice in state's health reform effort
MONTPELIER — If you’d told Otter Creek Brewing founder Lawrence Miller two decades ago that he would someday play a key role in Vermont...
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Sherman returns to campus to talk career, new book
MIDDLEBURY — For a guy who wasn’t initially sure he wanted to be a journalist, Gabriel Sherman has had an illustrious career in the 13...
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Editorial

Editorial: H.883 — Changing status quo needed to improve outcomes
At Monday’s legislative breakfast, Weybridge resident Fran Putnam asked an important question concerning a legislative proposal to consolidate school governance districts as drafted in H.883: “Before we totally throw the baby out with the bathwater,” she said, “we really need to think about: What is the problem we’re trying to solve, what is the goal here, and is this the best way to do it?” Rep. David...
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Sports

Panther softball sweeps league foe
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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College softball team won four of five home games this past weekend, including a three-game NESCAC West sweep that leaves the Panthers in a first-place tie in league play.

Overall, the Panthers are 14-8, 5-1 in league play. League rival Williams is 15-6, 5-1 in NESCAC West play. The Panthers host last-place Hamilton for a three-game set this...

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Feature

Diana Nyad to speak at Middlebury College commencement
MIDDLEBURY — Diana Nyad, who last year defied the odds and dangers to achieve her lifelong goal to become the first person to swim the 110 miles between Cuba and Florida without the aid of a...
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Middlebury town office bond revote set for May 13
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday set a reconsideration vote for the $6.5 million town offices-recreation center project for Tuesday, May 13. That Australian ballot vote will...
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Special Section

Published during Holy Week, our annual worship directory offers information about the many places of worship in and around Addison County.

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Sports Column

Karl Lindholm: 'Big game, small world': Hoop in Cameroon, Part I
The big news in the basketball world last week was that 7’0” Kansas freshman center Joel Embiid (“jo-el em-beed”) will leave college and enter the NBA draft in June. No great surprise there. I suggested in this space in January that Embiid was a name basketball fans would soon come to know and that the young Cameroonian was likely to come into a lot of money. My interest in Embiid is enhanced by the fact that I am living this year in his hometown of Yaounde, in Cameroon, West Africa. Here in Cameroon, the “Beautiful Game” of football (“soccer...
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Arts Beat for 4/14: Acclaimed piano, cello duo has dramatic flair
A concert by cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, “Russian Reflections,” will take place on Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. in the concert hall of Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts. Musical America’s 2012 Musicians of the Year, Finckel and Han rank among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today. The married duo will return to Middlebury to play a program featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Scriabin, and Rachmaninov...
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