pandemic
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Vergennes Lions staying busy during pandemic
VERGENNES — Even with the restrictions of COVID-19, the Vergennes Lions are busy helping the needy and trying to raise needed funds. Last month, several members installed an…
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Senior Lifestyles: Winter adds new pandemic challenges
MIDDLEBURY — If there was one silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was that arrived at the beginning of spring, when people of all ages could at…
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Retired counselor offers thoughts on isolation
MIDDLEBURY — The isolation of this pandemic can feel at times unmanageable. That can especially be the case for seniors who cannot leave their homes or visit with…
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Pandemic prompts health agency to expand programs
ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County Home Health and Hospice, which has more than half a century of accumu- lated know-how under its belt, is rolling out some new…
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Vt. Land Trust helping farms get through COVID-19 crisis
MONTPELIER — Thirty-four farms across the state received a combined total of $73,000 in June through the Vermont Land Trust’s new program for farmers affected by COVID-19 and…
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Staying cool in quarantine
While social distancing best practices may limit some of the ways you might typically cool down when it’s warm, there are still many ways you can keep your…
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Seniors are zooming their way to fitness
MIDDLEBURY — Sometimes a chair is just a chair, but right now for many elderly clients at Project Independence a chair can be much more. In fact, after…
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Emergency grants help Vermont cultural orgs adapt
Vermont Humanities and the Vermont Arts Council have distributed $517,500 in emergency relief grants to 81 different Vermont cultural organizations, including museums, libraries, performing arts venues, and other…
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Home sales ready to rebound from pandemic
The real estate market in northwest Vermont is recovering after the necessary shut down due to COVID-19, according to a report based on New England Real Estate Network…
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Letter to the editor: Government must continue to help during pandemic
Given the severity of the COVID-19 crisis at home, it can be easy to forget that a pandemic is an inherently global issue. As much pain as the…
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Congratulations, 2020 graduates!
Like all, we wish to congratulate the seniors at the area high schools — Middlebury, Mount Abraham, Vergennes, Otter Valley, Proctor and West Rutland. In the past four…
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Ways of Seeing: Coming home during a pandemic
I spent the month of January travelling with my family in Asia. We visited Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Just before our return we heard about a…
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Letter to the editor: We will be alright
As I sit here, a grandmother and a great-grandmother, in the middle of this pandemic, a time we have never had to deal with before, I watch how…
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Letter to the editor: Insensitive to the other pandemic?
The murder of George Floyd by slow painful asphyxiation has broken the hearts of all caring people. Maybe he deserved to die you say. He broke the law,…
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Bristol sixth-graders put stamp on school, from home
BRISTOL — For nearly three decades, under the guidance of art teacher Deb Rickner, each graduating sixth-grader at Bristol Elementary School (BES) has created a personal design and…
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Video: Doc Lyle Sol’s Medicine Show
Something special happened in Middlebury last weekend. Folks in Buttolph Acres and at EastView were drawn out of their homes and into the streets by an old-fashioned traveling…