Top Stories for Tuesday February 12, 2013

Honoring the True Spirit of Valentine's Day
By Cookie Steponaitis
    There are many today who measure love in terms of items and acquisitions and the price of the bling, the carat of the ring or the luxury of the items provided for the loved one. Hollywood and the media present us with hours of coverage of the biggest winners, the largest prizes in history and courtships where the size of the engagement ring is longer than the relationship. Yet somewhere lost in all of that materialism and commercialism is the word love and the sentiment of sharing a special day with your other half or special someone.

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Designs For The Future
By Mike Cameron
Hannaford Career Center Senior Isadora Marks and her teacher Lisa Rader look over some of Isadora's work during Open House at the Middlebury campus on Thursday, February 7, 2013.  The Career Center currently has18 programs that offer students real life skills in an actual career path environment, on a daily basis.  [ more ]

Saying Goodbye To Elaine Holbrook The “Avon Lady”

   The Valley Voice joins hundreds of others who will remember Elaine Holbrook with happy thoughts and her infectious laugh.  “It is with a great deal of sadness that we have learned of Elaine’s passing.  We all have lost a good friend and neighbor.  Elaine was a staunch supporter of our paper  and would visit us often.” Voice publisher,  Cheryl White explained when she learned of Elaine’s death this past week.  [ more ]