Crowds gather in Rutland and Castleton to celebrate reopening By Polly Mikula At 7:30 a.m. on Monday, July 19, the James M. Jeffords Station in downtown Rutland was packed with passengers eager to board the Ethan Allen Express for the first […]
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Petition seeks Ben & Jerry’s flavor honoring people of color
By Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Vermont racial justice activist Curtiss Reed Jr. has a dream — a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream dream that the company create its first flavor in honor of a person of color — specifically, football quarterback and […]
Vermont athletes picked for U.S. Olympic team
By Kevin O’Connor Kelly Clark used to be the only American snowboarder to compete at four Olympics. That record was broken Monday when Clark was selected to represent the United States in the sport for the fifth time. Clark, a […]
Clergy take to pulpits to decry religious and racial hate
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger Churches, synagogues and mosques usually focus on love. But recently, many are fending off hate. “Some people are using the current political climate to justify anti-Semitic or Islamophobic beliefs or degrade human beings,” Vermont Episcopal Bishop […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders promotes Jan. 15 “day of action” against health care cuts
Poster board bearing a blown up Trump tweet goes viral By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger Bernie Sanders may not have won the 2016 U.S. presidential race, but the Vermont senator — former presidential candidate turned chairman of his chamber’s Democratic Party […]
Holocaust hero Marion Pritchard remembered in Vermont
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger When Gov. Madeleine Kunin learned of the recent death of 96-year-old friend Marion Pritchard, she recalled their meeting at Vermont’s first Holocaust memorial ceremony in 1987 — and their separate yet shared World War II experiences […]
“Blessed beyond belief:” A Christmas story
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger BRATTLEBORO — If Hollywood ever chooses to turn the back-from-the-brink saga of Vermont’s Robb Family Farm into a feel-good holiday feature, it’ll need to cast actress Brooke Shields. That’s because this true story improbably stars her. […]
Clergy rally at Statehouse against election-related hate
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger The problem began last summer, when one of two black members of the Vermont Legislature received racially charged emails and tweets, and has continued as late as this week, when a Middlebury Jewish congregation found a […]
Nation’s press says Sanders has ‘mountain to climb’
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger.org Vermont’s junior senator may have won New Hampshire presidential primary by 22 points, but “Bernie Sanders’ honeymoon is over,” CNN media reporter Dylan Byers began his story headlined “Sanders braces for a hard look from the […]
Vermont journalist Norman Runnion dies at age 85
By Kevin O’Connor, VTDigger.org Ask Norman Runnion for his life story and he’d point to a newspaper. “I’m a newspaperman, my father was a newspaperman — I love that word, I grew up on that word,” he said in 1989. […]