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Category: Opinion

Our Vermont Community Schools: A Better Way?

Posted on February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 by Kevin Lewis
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Building a regional food supply system out of the pandemic

Posted on May 28, 2020June 11, 2020 by Bill Schubart

Opportunities lurk in every downturn. To recover and move forward, we must do more than scramble back to the past, we must ferret out and explore better and more secure ways to live and thrive.

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Barn Talk

Posted on May 28, 2020June 11, 2020 by Roger Donegan

A curious offhand comment I heard upon first visiting Hinesburg in 1976 alluded to something called “barn talk,” a time that coincides with the first meeting of my future father-in-law, Howard H. Russell, the patriarchal namesake of the Russell Family Farm.

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Brave new world

Posted on April 30, 2020June 10, 2020 by Bill Schubart

The pandemic we’re muddling through confronts each of us both with life-threatening risk and prospective opportunities for renewal.

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The bell of Our Lady

Posted on April 30, 2020June 10, 2020 by Roger Donegan

One Sunday at the conclusion of the 8 o’clock service at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Charlotte, bright sun flooded the east-facing entrance of the church through the open double doors.

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Death by cop

Posted on March 26, 2020June 10, 2020 by Bill Schubart

The last person Vermont executed
was Donald Demag on December
8, 1954. Demag committed two
robberies and killed two people while
doing so.

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Gull Talk

Posted on March 26, 2020June 10, 2020 by Roger Donegan

If old enough, the perfunctory annual statement received from the
Social Security Administration dutifully lists one’s work history, dates and employers, from the point one needed to have “working papers.”

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End of the consumer economy

Posted on February 27, 2020June 10, 2020 by Will Patten

At the end of World War II, the United States began to build an economy based on consumerism.

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Volleyball, anyone?

Posted on February 27, 2020June 10, 2020 by Bill Schubart

Imagine a volleyball court with three
sides, a triangular net with equilateral
sides, three teams, and multiple balls being thrown back and forth between the three sides. This may help you see how the government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors juggle society’s needs.

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Eurasian Milfoil—An annual or perennial problem for Lake Iriquois

Posted on January 30, 2020June 10, 2020 by Roger Donegan

The end of January might find us
paging through seed catalogs or
deciding what to plant in the garden in 2020.

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