Category: Xian Chiang-Waren

New Haven family thankful for support after home burns down

Posted on January 17, 2013 |

• New Haven
• community
• New Haven

By Xian Chiang-Waren

NEW HAVEN — At 3:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, New Haven residents Matt and Jackie Schlein received a frantic call from their daughter, informing them that their home was on fire.

The Schleins were out of town visiting relatives in Saugerties, N.Y. When they arrived home in New Haven a few hours after receiving the phone call, their house was, as Schlein wrote on his Facebook page, a “toasted shred” of the structure that he and his family had lived in for 18 years. They lost their cat, their belongings, and the structure of their home.

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Telecommuters welcome spread of broadband access in Vermont

Posted on January 17, 2013 |

• Vermont
• business
• Featured
• Internet

By Xian Chiang-Waren

ADDISON COUNTY — While nearly all Vermonters rely on the Internet to stay on top of business, schooling or their social lives, no group is more dependent on fast, reliable Internet service than telecommuters.

“I spend most of the day connected remotely to a system that I do 99 percent of my work on,” said Addison resident Brad Clark. He’s the IT director for RetailVision, a magazine sales promotion company that last fall closed its office in Middlebury and moved out of state.

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First Middlebury College divestment panel set for Jan. 22

Posted on January 14, 2013 |

• Lincoln
• climate change
• Middlebury College

By Xian Chiang-Waren

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College next week will hold a symposium to discuss the college’s endowment policies and practices. The 90-minute panel, to be held on Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the McCullough Social Space, is to be the first in a series of talks about the endowment to address the possibility of reinvesting elsewhere the $32 million of the endowment that is currently invested in fossil fuel companies.

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ALL ABOARD! Youngsters keep Sheldon trains rolling

Posted on January 10, 2013 |

• Addison County
• Featured
• Middlebury
• Sheldon Museum

By Xian Chiang-Waren

MIDDLEBURY — If post-holiday season blues have already set in, the Sheldon Museum has a cure — at least until Sunday. The museum’s annual train exhibit will be taken down after this weekend, and volunteer Alex Shashok, 9, has a word of advice for anyone still on the fence about making a trip to 1 Park St. in downtown Middlebury in the next few days.

“It’s not going to be a boring waste of time,” Shashok said. “It’s going to be like the polar opposite of that.”

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