Molly Johnsen MA ’14 and Haley Hutchinson ’24 first met through their shared publisher, Green Mountain Press, and it is a good thing they did. Both are Middlebury alumni; Johnsen graduated from Bread Loaf in 2014 and Hutchinson from Middlebury in 2024. They entered the Abernethy Room for a reading ...
Matt Johnson is not tight-lipped about his approach to filmmaking. Discussing his 2023 film on the creation of the revolutionary mobile device, “BlackBerry,” the director stated, “I can only speak for my own experience, I think that it’s all the same. I look at ‘BlackBerry,’ and I look at ...
Claudia Rankine, known for genre-defying work that blends free-form prose, critique, essay writing and art, published her newest work “Triage” in Aug. 2026. She is an expert at beading forms, which I first discovered in 2022, when I read “Citizen: An American Lyric”, the most successful of Rankine's ...
As an international student and a passionate traveler, I have moved a lot— packing up, settling somewhere new, then doing it all over again after a few months. But after a while, I noticed my mental picture of any city usually boils down to the same few things: a couple of go-to restaurants, traffic ...
From Aug. 26-30, the 12th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) took place across various venues throughout Middlebury, filling the town with creative energy and vivacity. Since its founding in 2015, the festival has become a hallmark event for aspiring filmmakers, whose films take center ...
At the end of last month, the Irish artist CMAT (Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson) released an EP of live performances, with a set of accompanying YouTube videos, from a concert at St. Anne’s Park in Dublin. It was one of the best things I saw all summer. The month before, the Canadian artist Justin Bieber ...
Since construction started in Feb. of 2025, Stonecrop Meadows has made tremendous progress towards its goal to provide affordable housing to the local community. A recent Addison Independent article noted that the first phase of the project, which includes 61 new units, is currently being finished, ...
The Middlebury Class of 2030 moves into their first year dorms with wide eyes and an atmosphere of invigorated excitement, anticipating the next four years of their lives in a quaint town in Vermont. Meanwhile, the seniors arrive on campus, searching for ways to soak in their last year of college by ...
09/17/2026: Summer Recap Solutions
As the summer rays dimmed along the western shore of Lake Dunmore on Aug. 26, the Middlebury football team continued their one-on-one routes and games of three flags up –– shouts and splashes ringing from the balmy water. Sunset marks the end of summer for these student-athletes, a bittersweet moment, ...
On Aug. 29 Ilsley Public Library reopened its doors after 18 months of renovation. The new library, which cost around 17 million dollars, welcomed over 3,700 people on the very first day alone.
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On Sept. 8, Vermont Air National Guard members returned from deployment, supporting the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and war with Israel against Iran. The Vermont People’s Arm Embargo, an anonymous independent project, recently published their website which details how more than 30 companies ...
For the 121st year in a row, the Middlebury Campus continued its mission of fair, thorough and valuable reporting for the Middlebury community. In a year of transition, we reported on the inauguration of President Ian Baucom, the closing of the Institute at Monterrey, and the opening of New Battell, ...
On April 24, over 1000 books changed hands at a community book swap hosted by student organization Page One Literacy. Open to both students and community members, many brought a book to share. Others brought tote bags filled with them. Situated on Proctor Terrace, the event included a craft table, where ...
After a year-long consultative process, the student organization previously known as Hillel has changed its name to ‘The Jewish Association at Middlebury (JAM)’, while maintaining an on-paper affiliation with Hillel International, an umbrella network of Jewish campus groups across the United States. ...
President Ian Baucom announced on Jan. 22 that Executive Vice President and Provost Michelle McCauley will step down from her position on June 30, concluding a tenure spanning three decades of teaching and institutional leadership at Middlebury.
On May 1, the student organization Migrant Justice held a May Day Teach-In in the Grille, hosting a variety of student groups and faculty, staff and student speakers to discuss labor rights on campus and beyond. As various speakers took the stage, four student activist organisations simultaneously tabled ...