Athletics are also shaped by Marlboro's location, and by Vermont's long winters – the coldest weather coincides with the academic year.

Worm hold privies, another variant of the composting toilet are being touted by Vermont's Green Mountain Club.

By convention the Berkshires are confined to Berkshire County at the western end of Massachusetts, however geologically they are a westward continuation of uplands west of the Connecticut River and a southern extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.

A significant percentage of Vermont's nesting ospreys are found on the refuge.

The Taconics are the slate-producing region of Vermont, and the area's history parallels the rise and fall of Vermont's slate industry.

The views from the summit are panoramic, and on a clear day one can see the highest peaks of the following states: Mount Marcy in New York, Mount Washington in New Hampshire and Vermont's Mount Mansfield.

He reported that due to Vermont's expansion to include border towns from New Hampshire, Congress was reluctant to grant independent statehood to Vermont.

* " Antique Maple Syrup and Maple Sugar Labels ", from the University of Vermont's digital archives.

On March 12, 1772 Albany County was partitioned to create Charlotte County, and this situation remained until Vermont's independence from New York and Britain, which, however, did not end the contest.

Though the eastern terminus of the North Country Trail is only a few miles from Vermont's Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail, there is not yet a connecting trail to either of those trail systems.

Twelve club sections maintain assigned sections of the Long Trail-two other club sections maintain the trails in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and the Appalachian Trail from Maine Junction in Killington to the Connecticut River.

It is about from Vermont's border with Quebec.

The party also has an anti-war stance, advocating for Vermont's national guard to be restricted from engaging in war zones, an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and opposes all preemptive strikes.

Burlington, Vermont's Church Street Marketplace has been expanded from the original three blocks to four, encompassing the entirety of the city's commercial " main street ," and remains a thriving cultural center with shops, restaurants, vendor carts, sidewalk performers and special events which does not appear to be affected by the development of big box store farms in neighboring Williston.

The Green Mountain Club is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to preserving and protecting Vermont's Long Trail-America's first long-distance hiking trail which stretches from the Massachusetts state line to the Canadian border, along the main ridge of the Green Mountains.

A Democrat, Partridge served as Vermont's Surveyor General from 1822 to 1823.

A comprehensive UCLA study from March 2009 concludes that extending marriage to same-sex couples would boost Vermont's economy by over $ 30. 6 million in business activity over three years, which would in turn generate increases in state and local government sales tax and fee revenues by $ 3. 3 million and create approximately 700 new jobs.

Although not Vermont's longest river, it is one of the state's most significant, forming a major valley way from Lake Champlain through the Green Mountains towards ( although not connecting in drainage to ) the Connecticut River valley.

He was previously a member of the United States House of Representatives, serving Vermont's At-large congressional district, from 1951 to 1959.

In 1950, after longtime incumbent Charles Albert Plumley decided not to run again, Prouty announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives from Vermont's At-large congressional district.

" With the only undeveloped alpine area in the Green Mountain State and a skyline that sets it apart from everything else, Camel's Hump may be Vermont's finest peak ," says Michael Lanza in his guidebook for New England hiking enthusiasts.

This provoked some opposition from the town of Bennington on the grounds that the William H. Morse State Airport ( located in the town ), is currently known as " Southwest Vermont's Airport ".

Licensed to Burlington, Vermont, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 ( virtual channel 22. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter on Vermont's highest peak Mount Mansfield.

Licensed to Burlington, Vermont, it broadcasts on UHF channel 43 ( virtual channel 44. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter on Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield.

At, it is Vermont's third biggest mall, with over 25 shops, including JCPenney, Jo-Ann Fabrics and Wal-Mart.

From 1784 through 1788, the county was part of the State of Franklin, an early attempt to create a fourteenth state prior to Kentucky and Vermont's admissions into the union.

Vermont's honorable Governor Deane C. Davis was an early junior member of Barre, Vermont's Troop # 1.

A graduate of Dartmouth, Jonathan Hunt served as a trustee of Vermont's Middlebury College, where Hunt family members had been early benefactors.

* October 7 New York consents to Vermont's admission to the Union, with cessation of New York's jurisdiction, in the disputed territory.

In October 1998, coverage was further expanded to children in families with incomes up to 300 % above the FPL through these 1902 ( r )( 2 ) provision and Vermont's section 1115 ( a ) demonstration waiver and through the State Children's Health Insurance Program authorized by Title XXI of the Act.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

In addition to continuing resistance to New York's attempts to assert control over the territory, Allen was active in efforts by Vermont's leadership for recognition by Congress, and he participated in controversial negotiations with the British over the possibility of Vermont becoming a separate British province.

Allen wrote accounts of his exploits in the war that were widely read in the 19th century, as well as philosophical treatises and documents relating to the politics of Vermont's formation.

Allen spent the next several years involved in Vermont's political and military matters.

Shortly after his arrival, Vermont's Assembly passed the Banishment Act, a sweeping measure allowing for the confiscation and auction by the republic of property owned by known Tories.

As the war had ended with the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and the United States, operating under the Articles of Confederation, resisted any significant action with respect to Vermont, Allen's historic role as an agitator became less important, and his public role in Vermont's affairs declined.

Vermont's government had also become more than a clique dominated by the Allen and Chittenden families due to the territory's rapid population growth.

A lack of cash, complicated by Vermont's currency problems, placed a strain on Fanny's relatively free hand on spending, which was further exacerbated by the cost of publishing Reason, and of the construction of a new home near the mouth of the Onion River.

For example, Vermont's resolution stated: " It belongs not to state legislatures to decide on the constitutionality of laws made by the general government ; this power being exclusively vested in the judiciary courts of the Union.

Following Vermont's admission to the Union in 1791, the original organization essentially disbanded.

The couples subsequently sued their respective towns, and the state of Vermont, requesting a declaratory judgment that the license refusal violated Vermont's marriage statutes and Constitution.

In that case, Randall v. Sorrell, the Court also struck down Vermont's contribution limits as unconstitutionally low, the first time that the Court had ever struck down a contribution limit.

This constitution was amended in 1786, and again in 1793 following Vermont's admission to the federal union in 1791.

It was adopted in 1793 following Vermont's admission to the Union in 1791 and is largely based upon the 1777 Constitution of Vermont which was ratified at Windsor in the Old Constitution House.

Because Vermont's founders deliberately placed the capital near the geographic center of the state, Montpelier is one of Vermont's most readily accessible cities and towns.

In Vermont, the embargo was doomed to failure on the Lake Champlain-Richelieu River water route because of Vermont's dependence on a Canadian outlet for produce.

The park is also famous for its outstanding views of the area's natural scenery and Vermont's Green Mountains in the distance.

As of 2010, the population was 59, 534 ; Vermont's third-most populous county after Chittenden County and Rutland County.