Nancy Olson

Top the Truck food drive collected food, cash

We at the Putney Foodshelf thank the Putney community for the generous response to our Top the Truck food drive on Sept. 28. We collected 2,261 pounds of food and $2,182.12 in cash.

None of this would have been possible without the help of a number of people and organizations.

We also thank the volunteers - both those who staffed the event and those who moved, sorted, and packed all the food the next day - and all the kind folks who donated food and money during the drive.

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A quick study

Now a freshman at UVM, Lachlan Francis already has lots of public service experience

When Lachlan Francis, as a sophomore in a speech and argumentation course at Brattleboro Union High School, began to research the John Collins writing program, he could not have foreseen where his curiosity would lead him. “As part of my research,” Francis said, “I talked with Ms. (Teri) Appel,

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