MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Community Foundation has hired Adam Bornstein as a Mission Investment Manager. Bornstein joins the Community Foundation after more than 25-years in finance, social impact investing, and community development—both domestically and abroad, including Africa and Asia. Most recently, he worked as the Head for Innovative Finance & System Change at the Danish […]

MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center in Middlebury hosted leading young rehabilitation medicine doctors from around the world at an international forum last week. Their personal stories were compelling yet their mission going forward is even more so, said Andrew Haig, M.D., who practices in Middlebury and is president of the International Rehabilitation Forum. Sixty young […]

Upland variety will remain a persistant problem for the next several weeks BY SOPHIA MCDERMOTT-HUGHES, VTDIGGER A horde of bloodsuckers has descended upon the Lemon River Area, feasting on the inhabitants of Cornwall, Weybridge and Bridport. Vampires? Not here. It’s a late-season surge of mosquitoes — and experts say this year’s weather patterns have created […]

Investing in clean energy is smart for our future BY STEVE PATTERSON Vermont is not known as the “Green Mountain State” for nothing. Our environment is characterized by thick forests, rolling hills, steep mountains and flowing rivers.  From the shores of Lake Champlain to the top of Mount Mansfield, our state has made significant efforts to […]

On vaccination: What would my grandfather think? BY GEORGE LONGENECKER I sometimes wonder what my grandfather would think of the Covid-19 pandemic and the anti-vaccine resistance coming from both sides of the political spectrum. My grandfather, Charles W. Longenecker, M.D., was a lieutenant and physician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, who was called up […]