COVID-19
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Top 10 of 2021: COVID concerns continue
The biggest story of our lifetimes dragged on through all of 2021 as the story of COVID-19 followed an arc through the year.
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Letter to the editor: Students not safe in school
I’m terrified to go to school. That’s really nothing new — I’m from a generation raised on school shooter drills, told that a strap on a door would…
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Letter to the editor: Town majority wants mask law
I join Dr. Jack Mayer and the others who spoke up at the board’s Dec. 28 meeting in urging the selectboard to reconsider a mask mandate for public…
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Demand for COVID tests booms
As schools for younger students prepare to reopen after the holiday break, local educators are hoping a new testing policy will help keep more unvaccinated kids in school…
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Neshobe Elementary forced online by COVID
Superintendent Jeanne Collins cited two main factors that prompted the action: a cluster of positive cases that affected a number of grade levels and sent at least six…
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Editorial: Fight indifference in 2022
In short, a successful 2022 will be in understanding how to manage COVID-19 and its inevitable variants, so that we can rediscover the energy, passion and enthusiasm of…
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Ways of seeing: Pandemic survival ten best list
My friend Julie told me this COVID pandemic may last five years. She said that based on what happened with the influenza pandemic of 1918, it could take…
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Letter to the editor: Unvaxxed should go to the back of the line
An elderly friend just had his hip replacement put off, as Burlington, Middlebury and Rutland hospitals had no bed for him. Of the patients who had the bed,…
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Free rapid COVID tests available for K-12 students
MONTPELIER – Governor Phil Scott today announced that parents and caregivers of Vermont’s K-12 children will be able to pick up one free rapid antigen test kit per…
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College delays J-term, eyes omicron
Middlebury College has delayed the start of the upcoming winter term and students’ return to campus. It is also preparing for more COVID-19 cases in the wake of…