Top Stories for Tuesday May 25, 2010

A Joining Of Hands: VUHS Community Service & Testing Days
By Cookie Steponaitis
    Across the five towns that make up ANWSU the message was the same but the scenes were very different on May 18th, 19th and 20th. In classrooms around the school two hundred students in grades 8 and 11 sat in silence, pencils at the ready and completed the NECAP science tests for ninety minutes a day. Out in the community, five busses took four hundred students grades 7,9,10 and 12 to fifty sites where they painted, raked, weeded, planted, cleaned, toured and learned about different facets of the community they call home.
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Turning 90 with Mary Marsh Sharing Memories
By Cookie Steponaitis
    For many area residents who are in their forties there is a woman whose home and cooking was more a destination than a location. Everyone knows that if you want good food and great laughs you go see Mary Marsh or simply Grammy Marsh as she is known. And, for those lucky enough to have grown up in her presence and her kitchen, there are few places as welcoming or wonderful than the home of Mary and her family in Ferrisburgh, Vermont.  [ more ]