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Opinion: Secretary of State says photos of records should be free

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:27am meganj

Vermonters shouldn’t have to pay for access to their government’s public records.

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Ways of Seeing: Dig out the roots of racism

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:18am meganj

In September of 2018, a 30-year-old, off-duty police officer in Dallas, Texas, named Amber Guyger mistakenly entered her neighbor’s apartment, instead of her own.

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Editorial: Presidential debate offers rays of hope

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:15am meganj

Americans watching the fourth Democratic presidential debate held Tuesday night, should have come away with one overwhelming feeling: here were 12 candidates talking of issues that would help the a

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Jessie Raymond: Am I an introvert?

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:14am meganj

I’m a people person. Really. So when a friend suggested last week that I might, in fact, be an introvert, I sought out an expert opinion.

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Greg Dennis: Taking the footnote challenge

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:06am meganj

A friend who works in academia told me that, having gained the job security of tenure, they have decided to write less about stuffy intellectual topics and more about low-brow subjects.

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Letter to the editor: Forest health vital for future

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:02am meganj

The article titled “In a Warming World, New Thinking Imperils Vermont’s Wood-Fueled Energy Market” in the Oct.

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Letter to the editor: More than cash for school closure

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:01am meganj

Although I cannot dispute that the Addison Central School District’s push to consolidate our elementary schools is one plausible solution to what they deem a taxpayer issue, as an elementary school

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Eagle girls' soccer rules the day vs. Commodores

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 10:53am meganj

GOALIE KATE GOSLIGA and the rest of the Vergennes defense scramble to clear a corner kick as Eagles Juliette Snell (2) and Lucy Guy (8) wait to swoop in the first half of Tuesday’s 3-0 loss to Mount Abe in Bristol. Independent photo/Steve James

BRISTOL — It almost felt like Tuesday’s high school girls’ soccer game between host Mount Abraham and Vergennes was over before it started.

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Women's soccer shuts out Colby, is now No. 1

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 10:46am meganj

PANTHER SOPHOMORE MIDFIELDER Ellie Bavier makes a full-speed course correction to track down a long ball sent to her down the right side. Bavier controlled the ball and fed junior striker Eliza Van Voorhis for the first goal in the Middlebury College women’s soccer team’s 4-0 win over Colby on Saturday. Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy

MIDDLEBURY — A year after a NESCAC playoff championship followed by a run to the NCAA Division III final, the Middlebury College women’s soccer team is right back at it this fall.

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VUHS runners win at Harwood

Thu, 10/17/2019 - 10:42am meganj

TIGER JUNIOR THOMAS Nevins stalks Commodore junior Gabe Praamsma in the 32nd annual Harwood Invitational in South Duxbury this past Saturday. Praamsma (6th place) held off Nevins (seventh). Photo by Joe McVeigh

SOUTH DUXBURY — The Vergennes Union High School boys’ cross-country team won a close duel with the host school in Saturday’s Harwood Invitational over a hilly course on a sunny, seasonally warm day

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