Stories
The reports from earlier this year are in, and all across the state, the number of people using Vermont’s hiking trails was way up. Whether it was the Long Trail, Vermont’s State Parks, or developed trails in our towns and cities, people flocked to the outdoors during the early months of the pandemic. Before COVID-19…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the need for substitute teachers. And although some continue to work despite health risks, cold and flu season could cause the need for subs to far surpass what’s available, and force schools to send students home. Mike Macijeski was a history teacher for 20 years at Northfield Middle & High…
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Kristen Record, a physics teacher at Bunnell High School in Stratford, says a lot of her students are bailing on school. “I sometimes will go through an entire day, and I will only see five students in person,” Record said. “All of my other students have chosen to be on distance learning because they think…
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After more than 35 years of helping voters through elections, 82-year-old Mary Whitney of Milton was finding the long days as a poll worker tiring. Even so, she was determined to serve through this year’s presidential election. But after working the recent primary in Massachusetts, Whitney came to a decision. “I didn’t feel safe. That…
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Biologist Karen Malkus’s laboratory in the Barnstable Town Offices features a marble vanity with a mirror framed by light bulbs. “It used to be … the ladies’ room, which is now converted into the lab,” she said recently. Pipettes and amber bottles crowd Malkus’s lab bench. Mostly, she works with her microscope, and device called…
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