Why do thousands of our neighbors rely on food pantries, staffed mainly by volunteers, to make it through the week? And what are we going to do about it?
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Read MoreHunger in the Hamptons →
in EAST, Long Island
Turn to the Sun →
Solar energy isn’t just good for the planet (and the homeowner’s reputation as an altruist). Today it makes real financial sense — and can have a bold impact on domestic aesthetics, too.
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Read MoreTrouble on the Half Shell →
Oyster farming is a wonderful thing—for the environment, for foodies, for small-scale entrepreneurs. But what happens when the government grants aquaculture leases smack-dab where folks have been boating for hundreds of years?
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Read MoreSchleper’s Amazing Journey →
in Ski Racing
“I was having a lot of fun,” she said in a recent interview from her 2018 winter home in northern Italy, “but I wanted to get back to racing at the highest level again.” Rejoining the U.S. team wasn’t an option, but helping build a Mexican team was.
Ski Racing
Read MoreIgor the American →
in Ski Racing, sports
Igor immediately had huge ideas for our Stowe program, and when he arrived he let loose with criticisms and frustrations — and then went to work.
Ski Racing
Read MoreBiddle Duke interviews Chef Colin Ambrose at the 2018 Food Lab Conference →
Whale Off! →
When I came along a year ago with a sketch of an idea to start a magazine for The Star — beautiful, authentic, local (in short, The Star in stunning pictures and carefully edited words) — I might as well have said: "Whale off!"
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Read MoreSwimming With Mom →
Swimming, especially in the ocean, is a powerful thread in our lives. We remember places from the swimming — how cold or rough it was, how well we had handled it, how we had come to find a particularly fine beach or pool.
East Hampton Star
Read MoreBike Accident Dredges Up Memories of Tragedy →
in VT Digger
I’d never seen the police work about the crash on April 29, 1995, that killed my dad, partly because my mother asked me not to. Dad was gone, she would say, so what was the point? I never pressed it.
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Read MoreDuke Era Ends at Stowe Reporter →
in VT Digger
Biddle Duke, who has owned and run the Stowe Reporter publishing company since 1998, is stepping down as publisher and becoming a minority owner of the company. His last day as publisher is Dec. 18. He came to the Reporter from the Evening Post Publishing Co. in South Carolina, where he had worked as a manager, editor and reporter, and before that as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Argentina, New Mexico and New York.
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