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The Grace Cottage Hospital Auxiliary annual meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Oct.13 at 7 p.m. in the Grace Cottage Hospital dining room.
Two members of the hospital staff, social worker Carol Vandertuin and Dr. Robert Backus, will speak about “Advance Directives…Why Bother?” Advance directives are written plans stating what health care treatment you would or would not want if you couldn't speak for yourself.
The annual Grace Cottage Auxiliary fair, which raises money for the hospital, this year will donate nearly $56,000 from a total of about $70,000. This year the money will this year be used to buy:
• Holter cardiac monitor, $14,000...
Dean Miller calls his apple crop “small potatoes.” He works the five-plus-acre Cortland Hill Orchard, on Miller Road, just off Bonnyvale Road in West Brattleboro, by himself, for the most part. He said he does it because he loves it. During winter pruning and summer picking periods, he spends...
Many dimensions of care emerge at Thompson House when regional artists bring their work to monthly gallery shows and conversation at the nursing and residential care center on Maple Street. From the point of view of Activities Director Sandra Ware, the shows mirror for many of the residents what...
The majority of students who attend Leland & Gray Union High School live in towns hard hit by flooding by Tropical Storm Irene. But last week, students from Brookline, Dover, Jamaica, Marlboro, Newfane, Stratton, and Wardsboro found their way to Townshend as the 2011-12 school began. And all but one of the Windham Central Supervisory Union's elementary schools opened Sept. 6. The exception was Wardsboro Elementary, which didn't open until Sept. 12. “Everyone expected is here,” said Windham Elementary School...
The dramatic reconfiguration of the land in parts of the West River Valley is nearly as poignant to some as the deep losses of homes, cars, businesses, guest houses, barns, sheds, studios, and other property. Sara Deluca, visiting from Connecticut, spent many vacations over the years at her father’s Williamsville cabin high up a hill off the Dover Road. This time around, she said, all she could do was shake her head and hope to get the geography straight. “I...
During the days following the storm, stories of help, hard work, and courage dominated many conversations in the West River Valley. And the bigger the commonplaces about the strength of character and the decency and community Vermonters are said to possess, the truer the stories became. Apart from the epic and often spontaneous efforts of road crews, fire department personnel, law enforcement officials, emergency management staff, and town officials of every stripe, people made connections with one another to make...
Residents of the West River Valley got their clocks cleaned by Tropical Storm Irene, but some towns were more damaged than others. Wardsboro, barely accessible, had Vermont National Guard helicopters airlift food and supplies on Tuesday afternoon to the elementary school's ball field. By comparison, most of Townshend's roads were open to trucks and four-wheel-drive vehicles by Monday night, according to David Dezendorf, chief of the town's emergency management department. Townshend Fire Chief Douglas Winot said most of the town's...
Leland & Gray Union High School English teacher Carlton Smith vividly recalls one Halloween night when she heard a kind of chanting at her house. And that's just what it was. Students from Smith's 10th-grade class, who had been learning to recite the first 18 lines of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, banded together and chanted the lines outside her house in the middle of Townshend. So, along with the trick-or-treat queries, Smith was also hearing, “Wan that Aprille...
