Editorial

Farewell, and thank you, to Randy and Vicki

This was a bittersweet week for us here at The Deerfield Valley News. On Wednesday, we said our official goodbyes to Randy and Vicki Capitani on their last day with the newspaper they built over the last three and a half decades.
Most of our readers probably already know, but for those who...

Marlboro is not alone in its dwindling student population

Last week we reported on the Marlboro School Board’s heart-wrenching decision to put the future of their school to a public vote. It looks like there will be no good choice on the ballot. Their options include maintaining their second through eighth grades for 40 students at a cost that would add...

Some Vermonters pushed into hunger crisis

Last week The Deerfield Valley News published two stories on food insecurity in southern Vermont. As with numerous recent press reports on food insecurity in Vermont, much of the focus was on the government shutdown, its impact on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits – known...

Study consolidation or risk another injustice

In last week’s issue, we looked at the Vermont School Redistricting Task Force’s surprise recommendation for a system of regional cooperative education services, voluntary mergers, and regional high schools.
The recommendation was an act of rebellion – a rejection of Act 73, passed by the...

Winning, with experience

Two Saturdays ago, on November 1, the Twin Valley Wildcats won the Vermont Principals’ Association Division 4 boys’ varsity state soccer championship under the lights at Rutland High School. The game results were wonderfully chronicled in last week’s edition by sportswriter Brandon Canevari and...

Bridge repair drags on

Last week, reporter Jon Hurdle reported on the damage and repairs to the Route 9 bridge – Bridge 31 in VTrans parlance – in the center of Wilmington Village. The bridge has been plagued with problems and repairs over the last several years and, when new holes opened up in the bridge deck earlier...

Changing, and staying the same

Change is inevitable, they say, and we’ve certainly experienced our share of change lately at The Deerfield Valley News. Most readers will already know that Vicki and Randy Capitani, owners of the valley’s paper of record for 34 years, sold the newspaper to Vermont Independent Media (VIM),...

How Vietnam changed the US

“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped out for good. You don’t know what a media freak is until you’ve seen the way a few of those grunts would run around during a fight when they knew that there was a...

Resistance is local

“This is America. We believe in the rule of law, we believe in the three branches of government, we believe in federalism, we believe in the separation of powers, and we believe that no man is a king.”
Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark spoke those words as part of a public meeting...

National Newspaper Week

October 5 to 11 marks the 85th celebration of National Newspaper Week. Since 1940, the Newspaper Association Managers organization has sponsored and supported National Newspaper Week, a weeklong promotion of the newspaper industry in the United States and Canada. The Deerfield Valley News, The...