Local Editor Madeleine Kaptein '25.5 (she/her) is a local editor and previously served as a copy editor.
A Comparative Literature major and German minor, Madeleine enjoys reading, biking and hanging out with her cats. She is also an editor for Clover Magazine.
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.
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 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.”
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.
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 ...
After spending a week meticulously observing the student body’s clothing choices from Proctor Dining Hall to academic buildings and talking to students about their fall garment essentials, I have compiled a list of notable trends and persisting classics that constitute Middlebury students’ fall ...
The Henry Sheldon Museum — Middlebury’s community museum dedicated to preserving the town’s history — opened a new exhibit this month. “From Homespun to Couture: Fashion in Historic Middlebury” displays an eclectic collection of local 19th-century fashion-related artifacts, from opinionated ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Patrons at the Green Cleaning event make their own home cleaning products.
