On September 15, the makers of Trojan Brand Condoms released its first annual State by State Safer Sex Index ranking. The study found Vermont to be the state with the best sexual health in the country. Trojan Brand Condoms, America’s number one condom, was led to produce the study based on reports ...
A bucolic dirt road in Lincoln, Vermont might be the last place one would expect to find a humanoid robot. Nevertheless, a small residence there houses the Terasem Movement Foundation (TMF), a not-for-profit foundation researching the possibility of digitally saving a human mind to later be downloaded ...
On Apr. 7, 2009, legislators at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier cast an historic vote legalizing gay marriage in Vermont. “Those voting yes, 100. Those voting no, 49. One hundredneeded to pass, you have voted to override the veto,” announced Representative Shap Smith (D). The courtroom erupted ...
This past Saturday, Sept. 26, the Tour de Farms bike ride kicked into gear with a new route including more of the northeastern part of Addison County. Now in its eighth year, the Tour de Farms is an annual 37-mile bike ride around the Vermont countryside that stops at various farms, features local foods ...
This past July, the Skihaus of Vermont located on 6 Merchants Row closed its doors. In its place, Edgewater on the Green Gallery and Otter Creek Kitchenware Electronics have opened. The Skihaus has been a fixture of downtown Middlebury for over 51 years. After an extended period of vibrant success ...
Before much of the campus was up and about Sunday morning, students had secured winning places in both the men’s and women’s divisions of the 18-mile TAM Trek race. The race began in Wright Park at 8 a.m. on a 18-mile loop on the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM). In first place overall and in the ...
Over 2,000 people turned out this past Saturday for Shelburne Farms’ 37th Annual Harvest Festival, a jubilee of food, music, animals and crafts. The festival, located on a 1,300 acre farm off the eastern coast of Lake Champlain, is a unique opportunity for small business owners to advertise their ...
In early August, Vermont was rocked by a heinous spree of shootings, culminating in a triple homicide in a townhouse in Berlin. The shootings have sparked intense debate on both gun control and the future of foster care programs in Vermont. Jody Herring, the alleged perpetrator, was angry after losing ...
On July 1, both the Vermont Sales and Use tax and the Meals and Rooms Tax were expanded to cover soda and vending machine purchases, respectively. The statewide sales tax of 6 percent on all drinks with added sugars is intended to discourage the consumption of sugar-added beverages and raise funds for ...
Throughout July and August, Middlebury residents and state officials have debated whether to replace two state-owned rail bridges in downtown Middlebury. Originally built in 1850, the two bridges, which are located on Merchants Row and Main Street, are in poor condition and in need of constant repair. According ...
As of this Friday, in addition to delicious pastries, a visit to the town of Vergennes can include a perusal of the town’s newest art gallery. The Peter Fried Art Gallery and Studio, located at 245 Main Street adjacent to Vergennes Laundry, will hold its grand opening on May 8 from 6-10 pm. Originally ...
In the coming weeks, the parking lot of Cornwall Elementary School will change dramatically. The vacant school bus currently parked at the school will transform from a typical school bus to a Dream Bus that grew out of the imagination of Lena Jacobs ’17.5. Having received grant money from MiddChallenge ...
On Sunday, May 3, the Community Theater’s version of Spamalot came to a close. The show had been running since April 23 at 8 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays, and 2pm on Sundays. Spamalot is a musical comedy adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The title itself, as explained ...
Last Thursday, US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced that he would run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. He will be challenging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who, so far, is the only other major candidate in the race. Though he has formally announced his bid, Sanders ...
Glenn Lower ’84 does a little bit of everything to make the Co-op run smoothly. When asked what he does as general manager, Glenn Lower ’84 replied, “My kids—when they were small—used to say I sign my name a lot…they’d come upstairs and I’d be signing checks.” Despite the fact that ...
Last Thursday, David Huddle – who is currently a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished poet and novelist with eight published poetry collections and 11 works of fiction to his name – drew quite a different portrait of form in poetry through his lecture “Formal ...
As of April 17, Vermont is one step closer to implementing a new gun restriction law with bill S.141 passing in both the Vermont Senate and the Vermont House. Bill S.141 was passed in the House with a relatively close vote of 80 yeas and 62 nays. Previously in March, the bill passed in the Senate ...
The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT), the nonprofit organization dedicated to the maintenance of open land around Middlebury, initiated a conversation with the College about the continual preservation of the Sabourin Farm property. The 108 acres of land currently owned by the College contains a half-mile ...
This past week, Vermont selected seven communities to participate in a new initiative called Promise Communities. This initiative is part of Vermont’s Early Learning Challenge – Race to the Top Grant, a $36.9 million, four-year grant funded by the federal government to improve early childhood education ...
This June, Peter Jensen, the Foundations of Engineering and Architecture Instructor at the Hannaford Career Center, will be retiring. After working eight years in his current position at the center, and forty years overall in the Middlebury education system, Jensen and his career of dedicated work deserve ...