Shelter Workers Seek Union |
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER (11.08.06) |
BURLINGTON — Employees of Burlington’s largest nonprofit agency that provides food, clothing and shelter to the city’s homeless population marched in Burlington last week to drum up support for their right to organize. |
Valley Business Owners Form Neighborhood Watch |
CENTRAL VERMONT CRIME (11.08.06) |
WAITSFIELD — It was the heroin overdose death of a 21-year-old Warren man early this year that alerted the Mad River Valley to the immediacy of its drug problem. |
Why Is the Panda Inn Still Standing? |
URBAN DEVELOPMENT (11.08.06) |
BURLINGTON — A lot of new construction is taking place on Shelburne Road, at the outskirts of Burlington. |
Mix Up Economic Classes in the Classroom? Not in My Neighborhood School |
SCHOOLS (11.01.06) |
BURLINGTON — A high incidence of poverty limits opportunities for students at Lawrence Barnes and H. |
Planting Flags for Fallen Soldiers |
WAR MEMORIAL (11.01.06) |
WAITSFIELD — Almost directly across the street from the Punch Bowl, the Mad River’s nude swimming hole in Waitsfield, a large swath of open land is peppered with several thousand, miniature white flags. |
Film Targets Caregivers Who Steal Patients’ Meds |
DRUG ABUSE (11.01.06) |
VERMONT — At first glance, the videotape of Elizabeth Beddie seems to show someone performing her typical nursing duties of caring for the sick and dying. |
Dead Heads |
HALLOWEEN (10.25.06) |
Halloween is just around the corner. So it makes sense that Rob Coates would put up a Day of the Dead shrine in his Mexican-imports store, Sur al Norte, in Montpelier. |