kids
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Sing with St. Stephen’s for a day
Youths 8-16 (with unchanged voices) are welcome to join a Choir School Camp at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on Aug. 29.
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Clippings: We were kids in a candy store
“The moment we walked in, that familiar yet long forgotten smell of chocolate confections hit me.”
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Clippings: Miracle cures the illness of boredom
I stumbled, literally, upon a dusty roll of butcher paper I’d unceremoniously shoved in a corner months ago after my husband, Bill, brought it home from a kind…
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Letters to Santa 2024
Letters to Santa are flowing in like snow. More than 100 have reached the Addison Independent so far. Here is just a sampling of what children had to…
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UVM researcher talks COVID’s impact on kids, schools
As schools in Vermont and across the country prepare to reopen, it’s clear that children who do get the coronavirus are far less likely than adults to get…
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Kids take COVID precautions and have fun
ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County youth are seeing a different look at their camps and sports this summer. There are no field trips for day camps, no fighting…
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Talking to kids about race and justice
When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida in 2012, Joanna Colwell’s daughter was 11 years old. Just old enough, Colwell recalled, to walk by herself to the store…
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Pooping during a pandemic: What to do with No. 2 when public restrooms are closed
I was on vacation with my husband Bryan, and 5-year-old son Emmett camping in Florida when the pandemic rapidly unfolded. We managed to ride out the rest of…
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Kids win free-throw titles at MAUHS gym
BRISTOL — This past Saturday, the Mount Abraham Union High School gym was filled with the sounds of bouncing balls and swooshing nets. The cause for all the…
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Literacy project invites kids to Halloween event
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College’s Page One Literacy Project is inviting families to come to its annual Halloween event on Saturday, Oct. 26, from noon-2 p.m. at the Swift…