The Vermont Agency of Education released COVID-19 vaccination information that broadly identified Lamoille County schools as having between half to three-fourths of their students vaccinated.
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In a recent incident at the Lamoille Union Middle School, some students became intoxicated after ingesting cannabis edibles.
Wendy was one of several speakers last week at an event at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Stowe who shared stories of homelessness and housing insecurity, stories as diverse as the people telling them.
Hospitals, understaffed and reeling from one long shift that seems to have lasted years, began to fill again. As they reached out for help to fill holes in staffing, the cost to hire a traveling nurse skyrocketed.
The town of Stowe will use its $1.3 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay for normal town operations, rather than give it back to taxpayers, donate some for a homeless shelter or save it for a rainy day.
Vermont Everyone Eats, the COVID-19 recovery program that provided Vermonters affected by the pandemic with restaurant-made meals using local ingredients, will continue through July 1.
The state is putting its COVID-19 prevention efforts into the hands of Vermonters.
South Burlington schools are almost back to “normal.” Face masks are officially optional everywhere in the district except while riding the school bus.
The Champlain Valley School District dropped mask mandates for its schools after determining every school in the district had reached the 80 percent vaccination rate per earlier state guidance.
The South Burlington city ordinance requiring face masks in public buildings — and semi-requiring them in businesses — has lapsed into eternal rest. Probably. Barring the Omicron variant’s deadlier cousin.
As of March 7, students and teachers at schools in the Lamoille North school district were allowed to mask on and mask off.
A senior at Peoples Academy was one of 10 Vermont teens who participated in a recent virtual town hall hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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