Siri Harrison
'The right thing for Vermont kids'
WESTMINSTER-Harley Sterling, director of the Windham Northeast food program, which runs during the school year from the end of August to the beginning of June and provides breakfast and lunch to students, always aims to "push the limits of what's possible."
Sterling, with his team of 12 cooks, do the best from-scratch cooking they can with local ingredients at a time for the six schools in WNESU - elementary schools in Westminster, Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, and Athens; Bellows Falls Middle School; and Bellows Falls Union High School.
Visions for youth success
Youth Opportunity Initiative looks at ways for Vermont’s young people to help realize their goals
BRATTLEBORO-"The success of our communities is deeply connected to the ability of our youth to realize their educational, career, and life goals and aspirations and to access opportunities in Vermont and beyond." This is the belief at the heart of the Youth Opportunity Initiative, a project introduced by the...
Region’s beech trees vulnerable to invasive roundworm
State foresters see evidence of beech leaf disease in multiple Windham County towns
Residents of Guilford have discovered the aftermath an invasive species of roundworm that devastates beech trees, the latest indication that the leaf gall nematode has reached southeastern Vermont and inflicting beech leaf disease (BLD) in its wake. The presence of Litylenchus crenatae mccannii was first confirmed in Vernon last...
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‘All of our liberations are connected’
BRATTLEBORO-On a wet and gray June 9, amid a range of Pride Month celebrations and activities throughout the region, a diverse array of people of all ages congregated in the High-Grove parking lot to prepare for a Liberation March in support of the people of Palestine. The march was organized by Out in the Open, with the LGBTQ+ nonprofit encouraging participants to make themselves visible. Raven Rae, of Brattleboro, gave voice to the spirit of the march in simple terms: