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What to do in mud season in Vermont
By Julia Pepper | April 18, 2024Mud season. Your sneakers are soaked, your clothes are spotted with dirt and the trees are somehow still barren.
Julia Pepper
Senior Local Editor Julia Pepper '24 (she/her) is the Senior Local Editor.
She previously served as a Local Editor. She is a Psychology major and French minor. This past spring she studied in Paris. She spent the summer interning at home in New York City, putting her journalistic cold calling skills to use at her internship doing outreach with senior citizens. In her free time she enjoys reading and petting cats.
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Local construction company reaches major milestone for new first year residence hall
By Julia Pepper | April 4, 2024As college students start to roll out of bed and slowly trickle into morning classes, contractors from the local community are already hard at work on campus building the future of the college. Every Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., around 75 employees from Naylor & Breen, a construction ...
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Sustainable Kitchen buys Juice Amour
By Julia Pepper | March 14, 2024Juice Amour, a local juice bar that sells smoothies, acai bowls, and other healthy raw and organic foods, was acquired on March 6 by Sustainable Kitchen, a vegan, vegetarian and gluten free food-delivery service based in Lincoln, Vt. Juice Amour’s current storefront on Exchange Street in Middlebury ...
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Galentine’s Day Celebration Recognizes Women and Non-Binary Friendships, Business Owners
By Julia Pepper | February 22, 2024Adventure Dinner and Atria Collective, formerly known as WomenSafe, hosted their annual Galentine’s Day Celebration, a culmination of a long standing partnership that raises funds for Atria Collective. Sixteen women-owned businesses set up shop at Vergennes Opera on Feb. 17 from 5 to 8 p.m. Any gender ...
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Middlebury community responds to shooting of three Palestinian students in Burlington
By Julia Pepper | December 7, 2023Tahseen Ali Ahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid went to visit their close childhood friend Hisham Awartani’s family in Burlington, Vt. over Thanksgiving break from college. All three men were shot while walking down the street on Nov. 25 while two of them were wearing keffiyehs, patterned scarves that symbolize ...
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The Residence at Otter Creek holds holiday food drive for HOPE
By Julia Pepper | November 2, 2023A holiday food drive for the local organization Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) is ongoing at The Residence at Otter Creek, a senior living community on Lodge Road Middlebury. The charity drive began on Oct. 23 and will continue through Dec. 31. The food drive is one of the living ...
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Rising homelessness in Middlebury spurs community response
By Julia Pepper | October 26, 2023As the homeless population in Middlebury has grown in recent months, a group of local human services providers, business people and public safety officials haves re-established the Middlebury Homeless Task Force. The group was originally created to combat homelessness in the area about four years ago, ...
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Newly-independent Lincoln School District enters its first year in operation
By Julia Pepper | October 5, 2023This fall marks the first year that the Lincoln School District is operating as an independent supervisory school district for students in kindergarten through sixth grade, overcoming the challenge of withdrawing from its prior district to become established independently.
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New women’s clothing store, Middleton, opens in Middlebury
By Julia Pepper | November 10, 2022A new women’s clothing store has recently opened in downtown Middlebury. Middleton, located at 66 Main Street, is co-owned by Elissa Kestner, owner and manager of Monelle Vermont — two boutique stores in Burlington and Shelburne — and Lisa Phelps, owner of Middlebury salon and spa Parlour. ...
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Burlington citizens to vote on $165 million bond to rebuild Burlington High School
By Julia Pepper | November 3, 2022Burlington citizens will vote on Nov. 8 on a proposed $165 million taxpayer bond to support the demolition of the old Burlington High School and Technical Center buildings and build a new school. Since the discovery that the old building was contaminated with Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Burlington ...