RIPTON, Vermont, Aug. 10 -- Middlebury College issued the following news on Aug. 9, 2023: The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the oldest writers' conference in the country, will hold its 98th session when it begins Wednesday, August 16, and ends Saturday, August 26. Held every summer since 1926 on Middlebury's Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, the conference remains one of America's most respected literary institutions. Ten days of workshops, lectures, classes, and readings provide writer  more

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 8 -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced that DEC Forest Rangers and expert wildland firefighters are being deployed to assist with efforts to contain the Ridge Creek Fire in the Idaho panhandle and the Niarada Fire in northwestern Montana. The latest Forest Ranger deployments come as a team of D  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: * * * The R/V Marcelle Melosira opens a new chapter in research and education on Lake Champlain. * * * By ED NEUERT Many years ago, on the stormiest days of summer, with winds whipping up a froth of whitecaps on Lake Champlain, a young Marcelle Pomerleau and her brothers could often be found as close to the front of the Burlington-to-Port Kent ferry as its crew would allow, thrilling to the wild, w  more