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April 2006

Guardians, not Angels: Forging a Healthy Future for Vermont's Environment

Imagine a highway running the length of the Green Mountains’ ridgeline, a nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Champlain, skiing down slopes whose snow came from treated sewage, and eight hundred homes covering the side of Mount Mansfield. Impossible in Vermont – this liberal bastion of back-to-the-land transplants and generations of families who depended on a healthy environment for farming, forestry, and maple sugaring – right?

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Bringing Humanitarian Relief to India – on Horseback

Ilene Douglas was looking for an adventure. At age 61, she felt that life as a wife and grandmother in her newly renovated home in Morgan was a little too comfortable. A horseback trip with Relief Riders International to the backcountry of India was just the thing to remind her how uncomfortable life can be.

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Still Growing at 91 – Windsor Teacher Celebrates 65 Years of Organic Farming

Farming is a physically demanding job for even the hardiest individual, and organic farming imposes additional demands. For Marguerite Tewksbury, a 91-year-old farmer in Windsor, organic farming is still her life’s work, even though she rides a golf cart to the garden now.

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Sleuth and Scholar:
The Mystery Novels of Sarah Stewart Taylor

Even a reader unaccustomed to mysteries will become helplessly absorbed in Sarah Stewart Taylor’s series, featuring an art history academic with a penchant for solving murders.

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