Editorial

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...

School enrollment trends question district futures, impacts of VT Legislature

It’s often been said that numbers don’t lie. For anyone who read Lauren Harkawik’s report last week on the recent River Valleys Unified School District board meeting, the numbers tell an uncomfortable truth. Student enrollment numbers are low, and appear to be staying that way for the...

Know Your News

When your town, city or county has a local news outlet, the benefit ripples through the entire community.
You have a defender who cares about where you live and work, from reports about the content of school lunches to the latest proposal to raise taxes or increase your monthly water bill...