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  • Nest & Gather seeks to support local families

    Nest & Gather seeks to support local families

    Nest & Gather will offer a place for parents and caregivers to gather with one another, bring their children to play and connect with local practitioners.

  • How to help children with difficult emotions

    How to help children with difficult emotions

    In a Tuesday talk at MUMS, child psychotherapist and author Jennifer Weaver will address how to support children/grandchildren/students through big emotions while teaching them that difficult feelings are…

  • Proposed milk bill would help dairy farmers

    U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) this week celebrated the U.S. House’s passage of their bipartisan,…

  • Guardians ad Litem speak for Vermont children

    Guardians ad Litem speak for Vermont children

    Guardians ad litem are volunteers who are appointed by judges in juvenile court cases to advocate for the best interest of children involved in those cases.

  • Letter to the editor: Children are first priority

    No. No, and no again. I write in defense of my fellow Addison Central School District board members, who are much more diplomatic and polite than I am.…

  • Letter to the editor: Help children reduce stress

    Letter to the editor: Help children reduce stress

    As children get ready to return to school, I am reminded of my family counseling work after 9/11. Kids came to school following that horrific day carrying tremendous…

  • Faith Gong: Why keep a garden, chickens, or children?

    Faith Gong: Why keep a garden, chickens, or children?

    This will likely be a short column, because we are in the midst of putting in our garden. I have a complex relationship with my garden — as,…

  • Family services asking for help keeping community strong

    The most common type of maltreatment of children is neglect, the Middlebury Family Services of the Vermont Department For Children And Families is reporting. In these hard times,…

  • Former county priests cited in abuse report

    VERMONT — The statewide Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington knew at least 40 Vermont priests faced accusations of sexually abusing children over the past seven decades but did…