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BRATTLEBORO — In the lower level of the Vermont Marketplace, a sweet Vermont treat is being created and packaged by Vermont Maple Syrup that comes from a 1,400-acre sugarbush farm
Thanks for Bill Schubart s column on Vermont news media. However, you need to know more (we all do) about Paul Belogour, recent purchaser of the Brattleboro Reformer and Bennington Banner. He is not local, as Schubart states. He waltzed into Windham County a few years ago with many millions of dollars and has been buying property, commercial and otherwise, at a rapid clip. His political views are bizarre. His money is supposedly from the development of internet currency exchange mechanisms and enterprises. He hails from Belarus, for what that s worth. Local contractors apparently love him because they get paid; the
According to New Yorker writer and Middlebury College Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben, Vermont’s news-media glass is at least half-full (“How Vermont’s Media Helps Keep the State Together: Investigative journalism matters and so does community journalism,” New Yorker, Sept. 14, 2022). According to VTDigger commentator Bill Schubart, who notes that he has chaired so many boards, Vermont’s news-media glass is at least half-empty (Oct. 23, 2022). Neither mentioned that VTDigger employs regional reporters throughout Vermont. Questioning new American and Vermonter Paul Belogour’s purchase of the daily Bennington Banner and Brattleboro Reformer and weekly Manchester Journal, Schubart is unaware that they have
The New Yorker does not mention the steady demise or sale of local and regional papers and broadcasters that has undermined Vermont’s media landscape for several decades, and has been most destructive in the last few years.