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(02/29/24 11:04am)
In the summer after my first semester at Middlebury, I read “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman, the novel to which “Either/Or” is the sequel. Both books center Selin, a Turkish American woman at Harvard beginning in the year 1995.
(01/18/24 11:01am)
Vermont’s widely acknowledged, ongoing childcare crisis continues to create challenges for Middlebury College faculty and staff with young children, who are not guaranteed childcare spots. Two recent developments in childcare projects in Middlebury will offer partial alleviation of the issue, reflecting the college and community’s efforts to improve local childcare capacity.
(11/09/23 11:00am)
The Middlebury Maple Run was extra sweet this year, with students and local residents of all age groups coming out this past Sunday, Nov. 5. to crowd the starting line to the run, dubbed “Vermont’s Sweetest Half Marathon & Relay.”
(10/26/23 10:01am)
When Sarah and her husband Ben Wood opened Otter Creek Bakery in Middlebury in 1986, Sarah Wood’s car — a 1961 green VW Bug endearingly named “Pippin” — was their business’ main delivery vehicle, fondly recognizable to many people in town at the time. Pippin’s bright color and eye-catching flower spinner attached to its side separated it from the crowd of 75 antique cars lined up on Main Street for the second annual Middlebury Car Show and Fall Festival last weekend.
(10/12/23 10:01am)
The Champlain Housing Trust — the largest community land trust in the U.S. — received a $20 million donation from MacKenzie Scott through her philanthropist fund, Yield Giving. The contribution marks the largest donation the trust has received in its nearly 40 years of work towards providing affordable homes and related community assets in northwest Vermont, a region facing an ongoing housing crisis amidst a broader state-wide shortage.
(10/05/23 10:01am)
Fall — Vermont’s most cherished season — awakens several waves of change throughout the Middlebury campus each year. The trees turn from green to brilliant oranges and reds, the weekend activity of choice switches from gorge jumping to apple picking and the late-night walk back from Davis Library is accompanied by the crunch of leaves beneath our feet. But my favorite change of all is one that allows Middlebury students to combine their personal tastes and creativity with tradition: the unfolding of the semester’s fall fashion.
(09/21/23 10:01am)
“Ivory and pearl make the prettiest handles for parasoles,” dogmatically claims one of many “Fashion Notes” published in a Middlebury newspaper from 1867.
(09/14/23 10:02am)
The locally- adored Middlebury Natural Foods Co-Op is busy preparing for its fall season — meeting with the nonprofit’s member-owners, facilitating the annual September Eat Local Challenge, bringing in the new fall produce and holding a variety of cooking and herbalism classes are all on the agenda.
(05/11/23 10:03am)
For Talia Chang’s ’26 final project for her gender studies class “White People” with Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Laurie Essig, she and her partners Zoe Rosen ’26, Lizzy Guzman ’26 and Yaxeny Erazo ’26 are proposing that the College bring food trucks with culturally diverse food options to campus to give students more opportunities to experience a wide variety of authentically prepared ethnic food. Chang and her partners are still in the planning process, but they hope to kickstart the project next fall.
(04/20/23 10:03am)
Four of Davis Family Library’s librarians have left their jobs in the past four months, leaving the following vacancies in the User Experience Librarian, Science and Data Librarian, Head of Collection Development and Head of Research and Instruction positions. A new User Experience Librarian will start this month to partially relieve the intensified workload of the remaining five librarians, who are struggling to maintain their usual responsibilities in the wake of the understaffing.
(04/13/23 10:00am)
The Town Hall Theater hosted a public screening of a short film highlighting the Yellow House Community, a residential home for adults with disabilities, this past Thursday. With two evening showings, the event brought in over 200 people who came to show support for the film and learn more about Yellow House’s program. Complete with a red carpet for the actors, a cocktail bar and a standing ovation, the event was meaningful for the residents, their families and the filmmakers alike.
(03/09/23 11:02am)
When Blanca Jenne first opened a stationary store behind her home in Cornwall, Vt., she never anticipated the business would turn into Middlebury Sweets, Vermont’s largest candy store and a motel combined. Located at 1395 Route 7, Jenne now proudly sells more than 15,000 different types of candy and accommodates guests in several single queen and double queen bed candy-themed motel rooms.
(01/19/23 11:00am)
After a busy holiday season, businesses in the town of Middlebury are temporarily closing or reducing their hours for the winter. Middlebury Mountaineer, The Schmetterling Wine Shop, The Vermont Book Shop, Buy Again Alley and Middleton have all shortened their hours. The Stone Mill public market has fully closed for a three week period. Local businesses limiting hours in winter has become common practice in recent years due to an annual need to reset and a smaller number of customers coming in during the colder months.
(12/08/22 11:00am)
The registrar’s office estimated that 2,681 students intended to register for 2,634 class seats for the upcoming winter term. There were a total of 157 students, including 141 upperclassmen, who were unregistered for a winter term course as of Nov. 30. Grace Spatafora, dean of curriculum, shared that based on data from the previous three years, the college’s algorithm predicted that anywhere from 60–100 students would engage in off-campus internships. But at the time of registration this year, that number turned out to be only six.
(11/03/22 10:04am)
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs (RCGA) hosted a talk on Oct. 20 by James Morone ’75, Middlebury alum and John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy at Brown University, entitled “Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal” after his most recent book published in 2020. This talk was the first event of the new RCGA program “Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy,” sponsored by the Cangiano family.
(09/29/22 10:04am)
A panel titled “Forecasts for a Post-Roe America: Three Disciplinary Perspectives on What Comes Next,” hosted by Vice President of Equity and Inclusion Khuram Hussain on Tuesday, Sept. 20, featured three professors speaking on the future of abortion access.
(09/22/22 10:03am)
After a successful summer season, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury is heading into its new season and is excited to welcome the Middlebury College community back. There are several ongoing and upcoming events this fall.
(04/28/22 10:00am)
On Friday, April 22, in honor of Earth Day, the Ilsley Public Library hosted a Green Cleaning event where attendees could create their own DIY, environmentally-friendly household cleaning products. The sample-sized materials and recipes for laundry detergent, tub scrub and dishwasher detergent were provided to participants, who had the opportunity to come and follow the instructions to make their own products in reusable jars. The main ingredients were basic household items such as baking soda, liquid soap, Borax and optional essential oils to add some scent, making the recipes easy to find and recreate at home.