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Black Lives Matter-Vermont Rallies for Change
Ebony Nyoni had a tough message for the large, mostly white crowd gathered at a Winooski bar six days after the presidential election: Distraught people looking for comfort as they contemplated a...
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International Travel Tensions Have Local Arts Groups on Standby
President Donald Trump's immigration executive order in January was, by most accounts, an unmitigated disaster. It prohibited entry into the U.S. of all refugees and of immigrants from seven...
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A Benefit Fashion Show Models Multiculturalism
On a chilly Sunday in February, several dozen New American and U.S.-born performers gathered at North End Studios in Burlington to rehearse an upcoming production simply called "the Fashion Show." But...
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From Railroad to Statehouse: A Chef Comes Home
Shaun Murphy is up before sunrise at her house in Plainfield, and in the kitchen at 4:20. The coffee is all but ready for her, set up the night before by her mother. Murphy just has to hit the "on"...
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In Morrisville, River Arts Launches AMP Night
A watercolor class, a poetry clinic, a Pilates class set to invigorating tunes: These are among the diverse activities taking place on any given night at River Arts. But on a recent evening,...
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American Muslims Grapple With Interest-Based Borrowing
When Samantha Lord-Konare converted to Islam six years ago, she found herself in a quandary. She had student and credit card loans, but her new religion prohibited riba, the Arabic word for usury....
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Bosnian Women Reflect on Resettlement
For as long as she can remember, Armina Medic has stood up to bullies, even if it meant she got beaten up. In her youth, her grandmother predicted Medic's sense of justice would lead her to do...
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Elsa Wheel, 90, Is Still a High Stepper
You might call 90-year-old dancer Elsa Wheel a late bloomer. Aside from the occasional World War II-era jitterbug as a young woman, she rarely set foot on the dance floor. Though quick to praise her...
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Find a Classic Shave and Haircut at Winooski's Old Soul Barbershop
A cop, a lawyer and an ex-convict walk into a barbershop. No, this isn't the beginning of a bad joke. It's a typical day at Old Soul Barbershop, which opened in Winooski in October 2016. The shop's...
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In Vermont, a Somali Bantu Youth Finds His Voice
When Aden Haji was 8 years old, he and his family were on the cover of the Burlington Free Press. Haji and his parents, two siblings and uncle were the first Somali Bantu refugees to resettle in...
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Vermonters Who Run With the Big Dogs at Westminster
Fred has quite a head on his shoulders. It's as big and blocky as a toaster oven, with a wrinkled, velvety brow, brown and droopy Abe Vigoda eyes and a broad, jowly smile —all breed standards for an...
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Tara Lynn Bridal Designs Eco-Friendly Dresses
When eco-couture designer Tara Lynn Scheidet boasts, "Each dress has a story," she means it has a fairy tale. Like the one in which bride-to-be Kellee Wagner and her mother lit out across the...
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DIY Wedding? Caitlin Frauton Has Some Advice
From Martin Short's Franck Eggelhoffer in Father of the Bride to Nathan Lane's Pepper Saltzman on "Modern Family," the wedding-coordinator shtick is about as old as love itself. A highfalutin...
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Local Love Brigade Sends Cards to Victims of Hate
Ann Bedichek Braden, a Brattleboro-based grassroots organizer, was heartbroken by the result of November's presidential election. But she hasn't taken it lying down. In early December, Braden was...
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Good News and Bad: Vermonters Affected by Travel Ban
According to Middlebury College student Mohammed Babeker, "In Sudan, we idealize the democracy of the U.S., the freedom of speech in America." But for several days recently, the Sudanese national...
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Lucky Bums: How a Generation of Skiers Shaped Vermont
Charlie Brown remembers the first time he stepped into the Blue Tooth, a tavern on the Sugarbush Access Road in Warren. It was 53 years ago, and he was a 28-year-old from Philadelphia up for a ski...
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Burlington-Area New Americans Find Gathering Spaces
On a nippy Sunday evening in mid-January, about 20 people filled the pews of St. Joseph's Co-Cathedral lower chapel in Burlington as Reverend Lance Harlow performed mass in French. White fluorescent...
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Black Lives Matter-Vermont Rallies for Change
Ebony Nyoni had a tough message for the large, mostly white crowd gathered at a Winooski bar six days after the presidential election: Distraught people looking for comfort as they contemplated a...
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International Travel Tensions Have Local Arts Groups on Standby
President Donald Trump's immigration executive order in January was, by most accounts, an unmitigated disaster. It prohibited entry into the U.S. of all refugees and of immigrants from seven...
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A Benefit Fashion Show Models Multiculturalism
On a chilly Sunday in February, several dozen New American and U.S.-born performers gathered at North End Studios in Burlington to rehearse an upcoming production simply called "the Fashion Show." But...
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