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LOOKING FORWARD
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Health Care on Hold: Tales from the Front Lines of Vermont’s Online Exchange
BY KATHRYN FLAGG
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A Vermont Think Tank Celebrates 40 Years of Influential Anarchy BY KEVIN J. KELLEY
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Contest for Votes Spotlights a Changing Winooski BY MARK DAVIS
ARTS NEWS 24
Vermont Festival of the Arts Delivers, Every Single Day
FEATURES 32
BY ALICIA FREESE
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A Montpelier Design/ Build Duo Lands a House on TV
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A Vermont Exhibition Celebrates the Russian Kunstkamera
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Pushing the Envelope
Theater: Love Letters, Unadilla Theatre BY ERIK ESCKILSEN
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Trail Blazers
Food: Vermont’s Long Trail Brewing Company turns 25
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Stuck in Vermont: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied youth are singing campfire songs in Starksboro this week during the 4th annual Camp Outright. Last year, Eva Sollberger spent an afternoon talking with campers and staff at this “queer utopia.”
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Tales from the queue
BY HANNAH PALMER EGAN
Clever Comfort
Food: Grilling the Chef: Michael Werneke
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PASS OR FAIL
BY ALICE LEVITT
What happens if Burlington College drops out? BY ALI C I A FR E E S E | PAGE 32
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BY ETHAN DE SEIFE
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Guitar Hero
In memoriam: Remembering Kip Meaker BY DAN BOLLES
BY XIAN CHIANG-WAREN
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It Takes Two…
Dance: A tango music and dance community flourishes in Vermont BY XIAN CHIANG-WAREN
BY AMY LILLY
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Pass or Fail
Back to School: What happens if Burlington College drops out?
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