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A new Vermont law prevents hunters from selling bear paws and organs
Advocates and officials worried that the lack of regulation in Vermont could attract people interested in selling bear parts on the black market. Read the story on VTDigger here: A new Vermont law prevents hunters from selling bear paws and organs.
A colossal cake: Local bakery sets out to make world's largest whoopie pie
RUTLAND, Vt. — A Vermont bakery is setting the bar high for this year's Whoopie Pie Festival in Rutland with a goal to make the world's largest whoopie pie. A bakery in Maine currently holds the title. At last year's Whoopie Pie Festival, the Killington-based bakery Dream Maker Bakers...
Fall into fall with these 30 September arts-and-entertainment events in Vermont
There’s something about September that inspires creativity. Earth, Wind & Fire hoped you remembered dancing in September. “Try to Remember” from “The Fantasticks” mined similarly nostalgic territory. Kurt Weill wasn’t exactly a sentimental ol’ fool, but his “September Song” hits a deep, reflective vibe. Sure, the month’s popularity in song has a lot...
Traveling to die: The latest form of medical tourism
In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or leaf-peep, but to arrange to die. “I really wanted to take control over how I […]
Suffs creator Shaina Taub goes from Vermont to Broadway
This year's Broadway hit "Suffs" has deep Vermont roots. The Tony Award winning musical centers on a group of suffragists and their fight to give women the legal right to vote. But the play also conveys how the 19th amendment was not a panacea in achieving equality in the U.S. White women were the primary beneficiaries, while many women of color continued to be denied the vote well into the 20th century due to discriminatory state laws.
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