Top Stories for Tuesday July 19, 2011

Cooking Up A Storm And Sharing Memories With Zita Riley
By Cookie Steponaitis
Meeting Zita Riley is a lot like meeting your very favorite grandmother. She greets you at the door with a spring in her step, a gleam in her eye and the question asked by every devoted cook, ‘Are you hungry and can I get you something?’ At ninety years strong, Zita Riley is still most at home in a kitchen cooking her favorite recipes and sharing them with those she loves and even those she has just met.
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Friends Of Jerusalem School Receives Grant To Renovate South Starksboro Schoolhouse As Community Center

A Starksboro organization with plans to upgrade a historic one-room schoolhouse has received assistance toward its goal from a Co-operative Insurance Companies Community Grant.
    In early May, Co-operative Insurance Companies, Gaines Insurance Agency, Laberge Insurance Agency, and Co-op board member Joseph Devall made a joint $1500 gift to Friends of Jerusalem School.   [ more ]