Author: Tamara Hilmes Ed Burke can tell you whether aqua dianthis or stachys byzantina would best complement your foundation, or which type of groundcover will work best around your deck. If you schedule a consultation, for just $150 he can devise a plan to redesign your entire landscape. But Burke, ...
Author: Sam Morrill HAVANA - As the first month of Major League Baseball comes to a close, 90 miles south of Florida the champion has already been decided. Santiago de Cuba beat the defending champion Havana Industriales last Wednesday in the decisive sixth game of the Cuban Baseball Finals. Although ...
Author: Kelly Janis It is not every Saturday morning that the streets of Rutland swell with chatty, energetic crowds, winding their way through crosswalks, intersections and parking lots, their gaze fixed upon a noble cause. This Saturday, however, was the exception, as dozens laced up their sneakers ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner A grey sky looms over the charred skeleton of a building with white letters spelling out "Vermont Field Sports," barely hanging on to the slanting faÁade. Still damp from gallons of water firefighters used to douse the flames that engulfed the outdoor sports store for nearly ...
Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen The candidates for the Student Co-Chair of Community Council (SCCOCC) and Student Government Association (SGA) President were given a chance to publicly voice their opinions in a debate Sunday evening as they addressed issues ranging from campus smoking policy to the Commons ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed Middlebury College was not among the nation's 400 colleges that received a letter from New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo cautioning school officials about a potential conflict of interest with student loan lenders, according to financial aid officials at the College. A ...
Author: Derek Schlickeisen At $46,910, Middlebury will have the second-highest price tag among New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) schools for the academic year beginning this fall. The higher costs come as the College scrambles to build an endowment comparable to its recent rise ...
Author: Andrea Glaessner As I stepped outside the car in the parking lot of Otter Creek Brewery, the warm, pungent scent of yeast filled the air. Even though it was Sunday and the factory was closed for the day, the slightly peculiar and homey smell of fermentation was rife. It was April 15, day one ...
Author: Anthony Adragna The College's fourth annual Relay for Life raised nearly $203,000 and brought over 1,000 walkers to the field behind Kenyon Arena to support the American Cancer Society (ACS) on April 20-21. The current total represents a 2.5 percent increase from last year, and is expected to ...
Author: Emma Moros Cellular phone service and broadband Internet access have never been available to every Vermont citizen, but with the introduction of Vermont House Bill 248 and the work of the Internet for All, NOW! committee, that may be about to change.Currently, 87 percent of Vermonters have broadband ...
Author: Katie Flagg MAINZ, GERMANY - Today, in a course I am taking about literary portrayals of America, our professor asked us to express our pre-existing ideas of the United States. For me, the exercise was strange. In my broken German, I identified myself as an American and then listened as the ...
Author: Zamir Ahmed The Citadel to install dormitory locksIn response to the shootings at Virginia Tech last week, Charleston, S.C.-based military college The Citadel will install locks on all cadet rooms by next semester in an effort to increase student safety. The installation of locks breaks with ...
Author: Dany Noguera-Garces Symposium to honor Gandhi's non-violenceA symposium to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent movement to end British sovereignty of India is currently underway. Pooja Shahani '09, Micah Macfarlane '09 and Vani Sathisan '07, with support from the ...
Author: Kelly Janis For months, the dingy exterior of 73 Main St. has been plastered with colorful, enigmatic posters that promised that "something exciting" was in store for April. On Friday, the suspenseful signs were peeled away at last and replaced by a flurry of streamers and balloons, as Middlebury's ...
Author: Michelle Constant, Kerren McKeeman, & Chelsea Utterback Before heading to the online polls on Thursday, read up on the candidates for SGA president and Student Co-Chair of Community Council in The Campus' annual SGA election preview.Meet your SGA Presidential candidate: Max Nardini '08Junior ...
Author: Brian Fung Mary Lane '10 heard the news from her mother shortly after 11 a.m. last Monday morning: a gunman was loose at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. By noon, 33 people had been fatally shot in the deadliest school shooting in American history. As soon as she found out what was happening, ...
Author: Michelle Constant The Kathryn Wasserman Davis organization awarded $10,000 grants this spring to three groups from the College for proposals they designed for 100 Projects for Peace. The grants are to be used to launch these student initiatives this summer. The College has allotted an additional ...
Author: Mia Lieb-Lappen The Student Government Association (SGA) approved three candidates for the 2007 election ballot for SGA president and Student Co-Chair of the Community Council (SCCOCC) in its weekly meeting on April 15. Max Nardini '08, the current Wonnacott Commons Senator, will run unopposed ...
Author: Kelly Janis Whether as part of a bagpipe-led procession in Shelburne, a bike ride in Brandon, a ski-down in Killington or a trek from a sugaring shack to the statehouse in Montpelier, Vermonters turned out en masse on Saturday to "Step It Up" and demand that Congress pledge to cut the nation's ...
Author: Ceara Danaher Prindle Mullin Wissler is a firecracker of a lady. The petite 94-year-old artist was the center of attention at Ilsley Library on the evening of April 12, and for the remainder of the month, Wissler's paintings will be on display in the library. The show is a precursor to the 21st ...