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Mt. Abe takes interdisciplinary approach to ecology

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 2:02pm meganj

MONKTON EIGHTH-GRADER ANNA BELLE Hunt, left, and her Starksboro classmate Makayla Emmons carefully handle a monarch butterfly that was discovered during a field trip to the Bristol Peace Garden last week. Their class at Mount Abraham Union Middle School is taking an interdisciplinary approach to learning about monarchs and other threatened species. Independent photo/Christopher Ross

BRISTOL — When one of a pair of monarch butterflies escaped captivity and flew off toward a corner garden at Mount Abraham Union High School last week, Jocelyn Foran’s eighth-grade ecology students

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Sept. 20 is Climate Strike Day

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:54pm meganj

ADDSON COUNTY — On Friday students and workers in thousands of places around the world will press pause on their everyday lives and gather together to protest climate injustice.

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By the way for Sept. 19

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:52pm meganj

As part of the ongoing downtown Middlebury rail bridges project, Kubricky Construction workers expect to close Merchants Row to through traffic this Friday, Sept.

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Pleas filed in Auclair case; Kory Lee George held without bail

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:51pm meganj

BURLINGTON — Monkton resident and five-time convicted felon Kory Lee George, 31, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of firearms violations, including possession of the Beretta pistol that police

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Vergennes' Park Street projects are advancing

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:49pm meganj

VERGENNES — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church has created a separate nonprofit organization to focus on fundraising to support landscaping the lawn on the church’s west side.

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Cost up for new city salt shed; building delayed

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:46pm meganj

VERGENNES WILL USE a $267,000 state grant, along with $80,000 of city money, to build a new structure to replace this salt shed behind the city’s East Street recycling center. The new shed, which will prevent the elements from washing salt into nearby Otter Creek, won’t be built for three or four years. Independent file photo/Andy Kirkaldy

VERGENNES — Vergennes will get a new salt and sand shed, largely courtesy of a $267,000 Agency of Transportation grant the city received in the spring, but it will cost a little more than expected

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Author of 'The Dirty Life' to speak in Middlebury

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:43pm meganj

IN THE BOOK “Good Husbandry,” Kristin Kimball sketches out the first five years on a farm in Essex, N.Y., after she and her family moved there from New York City. She will read from the book in Middlebury next month. Photo by Deborah Feingold

MIDDLEBURY — Organic farmer and writer Kristin Kimball will read from and discuss her new memoir, “Good Husbandry,” on Wednesday, Oct.

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Chuck Collins to talk inequality on Sept. 26

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:40pm meganj

MIDDLEBURY — Research has shown that three billionaires today own as much wealth as the bottom half of U.S. households combined.

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Bridport farm prospers with new technology

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:38pm meganj

BOB AND NANCY Sunderland walk with their five children through a barn at Rolling Acres Farm in Bridport. The family is implementing newer practices and technology to keep the farm healthy for a sixth generation.

BRIDPORT — Meet Bob, Nancy, Brittany, Abigail, Vanessa, Laila and Beau. Farmers Bob and Nancy, and their five kids, make up the Sunderland family.

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Local 4-Hers do well in Rutland

Thu, 09/19/2019 - 1:33pm meganj

RUTLAND — Two Ferrisburgh 4-H’ers received awards at the Vermont State Fair in Rutland in August. In the Dairy Competition Jonathan Flores-Torres took home the Rita Tracey Award.

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