Opioid epidemic workshops offered at Career Center

MIDDLEBURY — In response to opioid crisis in Vermont, the Department of Health (VDOH) and the Hannaford Career Center are partnering to offer a series of workshops, starting Feb. 11, from 6-8:15 p.m., aimed at building understanding and community resilience to respond to this epidemic. The workshop continues on Feb. 18 and 25.  Hardly a week goes by that there isn’t a news story in Addison County that in some way relates to opioid drug use and its effects on individuals and our community. The VDOH reported … (read more)

Career Center eyes 11.4% budget hike

MIDDLEBURY — A $171,500 rise in employee health insurance costs, the re-offering of a construction technology program and a commitment to once again make the assistant director’s job full-time are the major reasons for a proposed 2020-2021 Patricia A. Han … (read more)

Career center names successful LNA students

MIDDLEBURY — The faculty and staff of the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center Adult Education Program announce that the following students completed the Licensed Nurse Assistant certificate program during 2019 and were licensed by the Vermont State Board … (read more)

Hannaford Career Center honors its top achievers

MIDDLEBURY — The following students were recognized as being the Outstanding Student in their career and technical program for the first quarter of the 2019-2020 school year at Hannaford Career Center: Daniel Anguish, Engineering Design (VUHS); John Bent, … (read more)

Volunteers fix what’s broken at the Repair Fair

MIDDLEBURY — More than 60 hopeful souls dragged in their broken small appliances, kitchen tools, bicycles, jewelry, torn or worn clothing and even a busted doorbell to The Makery at the Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury this past Thursday evening for … (read more)

Repair Fair: Fix your broken items for free

MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County Solid Waste Management District (ACSWMD) is offering help to residents with broken lamp or bike or sweater with holes.  Instead of throwing these things away, ACSWMD is inviting local resident to bring their broken stuff to … (read more)

Career Center team wins $10,000 grant from Lemelson-MIT Program

MIDDLEBURY — After years of development by successive student teams at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury, an invention called the “maple meter” has won some major recognition. Yesterday the HCC received a $10,000 InvenTeam grant from t … (read more)

Higher education seeing a shifting tide

MIDDLEBURY — Higher education opportunities like apprenticeships and community college are on the rise in Vermont, a state where 92 percent of students graduate from high school but only 37 percent of people aged 25 years or older have a bachelor’s degree … (read more)

Career Center opens its doors to community

MIDDLEBURY — The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center this fall will continue its recent pattern of expanding opportunities for the greater Addison County community to use its state-of-the-art facilities. Dana Peterson, Career Center superintendent, confir … (read more)

Career Center students honored

MIDDLEBURY — The Hannaford Career Center has announced the Outstanding Students for its first quarter, which ended in early November. Each quarter, HCC instructors select one student as their program’s Outstanding Student. These students and their guests … (read more)

Career Center students honored

MIDDLEBURY — The Hannaford Career Center has announced the Outstanding Students for its first quarter, which ended in early November. Each quarter, HCC instructors select one student as their program’s Outstanding Student. These students and their guests … (read more)

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