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When the thickets burst with summer fruit, we fill our fridges with raspberries and blackberries, but fresh elderberries are hard to find in markets. Maybe it’s because it takes a basketful of the small, inky things to yield, say, a respectable batch of elderberry pancakes. Or maybe it’s because some varieties of the fruit are toxic before they ripen.... Read more

In the spring of 1981, a wide-eyed University of Vermont engineering student and his soon-to-be-wife drafted a farfetched business plan: Manufacture wind-turbine “assessment” gear for a California-based market. From a small town in Vermont. Without much seed-money or technical know-how.... Read more

There were 30 slaughterhouses in Vermont when Carl Cushing first started working as a state meat inspector. Three decades later, only seven remain. So, on the occasion of his retirement, 54-year-old Cushing decided to trade in the hardhat and white coat for a blood-smeared yellow apron at Clark's Slaughterhouse in Ferrisburgh. He bought the place he used to regulate.

"I'm on the other side now," he says with a laugh, acknowledging it's an odd way to spend one's golden years. "The question I get most often is, 'Are you crazy?'"... Read more

FERRISBURGH — Plans for a $2.75 million reconstruction of the historic Ferrisburgh Grange, which was destroyed by arson more than two years ago, suffered a setback after a group of locals spoke out against the proposal at a select board meeting late last month.

Due in part to that opposition, the board opted not to approve the plan in time for an August 31 deadline with BreadLoaf Corp., the project’s manager. Now contracts will have to be re-bid, which could inflate its cost.... Read more

Caring for a parent who has Alzheimer's disease can be numbing, frustrating and sometimes unexpectedly illuminating, as part-time Vermonter Judith Levine showed in her memoir Do You Remember Me? Poet and artist Deanna Shapiro of Ferrisburgh is another writer who's used her talent to shed light on one of life's darker passages. She chronicles the last year of her 92-year-old mother's life in a book called Conver-sations at the Nursing Home: A Mother, a Daughter and Alzheimer's, recently published by small Georgia poetry press PRA Publishing.... Read more

On a dimly lit stage, Suzanne Rood sings a love song. "When I'm afraid," she croons in a sweet, plaintive voice, "I climb into your arms and you hold me." Rood's not singing to her husband, Rich. She's got another man in mind, a man symbolized by the giant wooden cross hanging on the wall behind her, topped with a crown of large, pointy thorns. She's singing to Jesus Christ.... Read more

How do you move a million books? Very carefully. And that's just what a Connecticut-based company will be doing beginning next Monday at Middlebury College. The library-moving specialists William B. Meyer will transfer the contents of the 104-year-old Starr Library to the brand-new, $40-million Middlebury College Library.... Read more