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Louis R. Mazel, who developed Vermont’s first local, discount department store, and who was a longtime prominent member of Burlington’s business and philanthropic communities, died March 28 at 99. [[READMORE]] One of that relatively rare breed, a native-born Jewish Vermonter, Mazel began working in the family-owned department store, Mazel’s, in Burlington, as a teenager. Mazel’s […]

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Adrienne Rich, who grappled publicly, artistically, and graphically with her feminism, lesbianism, and Jewish identity for decades in her groundbreaking poetry and essays, died at 82 on March 27. [[READMORE]] In the wake of her death, Rich was described as “pioneering,” “one of America’s foremost public intellectuals,” and “one of the country’s most honored and influential poets,” among […]

Engineer James R. Endler, whose work included massive projects such as the World Trade Center, Disney’s Epcot Center, and such personal desires as the West Point Jewish Chapel, died March 24 at 82. [[READMORE]] Endler learned his engineering at West Point and then in the Army Corps of Engineers. Along with the WTC and Epcot, […]

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