Category: Kaitlyn Kirkaldy

Middlebury Center focused on primary care

Posted on July 26, 2012 |

• Middlebury
• funding
• health
• Planned Parenthood

By Kaitlyn Kirkaldy

MIDDLEBURY –– Planned Parenthood is a national reproductive health care provider, which is divided into regional affiliates. The Middlebury Health Center is one of 10 sites that comprise Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE).

Planned Parenthood provides a variety of reproductive health services to men and women, explained Jill Krowinski, director of Vermont public affairs for PPNNE.

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Clippings: Absence adds spark to local vistas

Posted on July 19, 2012 |

• Opinion
• Clippings

By Kaitlyn Kirkaldy

I recently realized that I don’t appreciate the smell of freshly spread manure enough.

I didn’t suddenly decide that I love the odor, but I have discovered the scent a reminder of home and of the beautiful landscape around me, a landscape that I have not appreciated fully until recently.

I attend college outside of Boston, which is a considerable change in scenery from what I see here in Addison County. Down there I don’t have the same views of rolling mountains and green pastures and the smell of manure is nowhere to be found.

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Vergennes swimmers to fall to Racquet's Edge

Posted on July 16, 2012 |

• Sports
• swimming

By Kaitlyn Kirkaldy

VERGENNES — Visiting Racquet’s Edge outpaced the Vergennes Champs, 269-214, in Champlain Valley Swim League action on Thursday.

Tucker Stearns won three races for the home team, while Allison Croke, Katrina Mayer and Matteo Palmer picked up two victories apiece for the Champs.

The Champs also won eight relays, sweeping the 10-and-under and 18-and-under boys’ and girls’ races.

Earning points for Vergennes with top-three finishes in individual races were:

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Little city to fete French heritage

Posted on July 9, 2012 |

• Vergennes
• Featured

By Kaitlyn Kirkaldy

VERGENNES –– Charles Gravier, Le Comte de Vergennes, a French nobleman for whom the city of Vergennes was named, died in 1787. But on July 14 le Comte de Vergennes will be strolling around the streets of the Little City, stopping to talk to passersby and leading a tour of the city’s downtown.

French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who lived from 1574 to 1635, will also be hanging out in the City Park this Saturday telling his personal history. Craftspeople will be knitting, making 18th century shoes, quilting, blacksmithing and spinning.

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