Top Stories for Tuesday August 11, 2015

Sharing Glimpses Of Decades Of Childhood
By Cookie Steponaitis
Marilyn Woods has been fusing art, education, and touching the lives of children since 1964 in a classroom or outside of school walls while working on special projects. Woods has passed along the lessons she learned from her parents and encouraged books, reading, creativity and the wonder of play. Children who crossed paths with Marilyn Woods were always seeing connections, taking risks and creating while finding out about themselves and their world.  [ more ]

Moving Vermont’s Children Is Bet-Cha Transit
By Cookie Steponaitis
Many may remember singing as young children, ‘the wheels on the bus go round and round. All through the town.’ Part of school for thousands of Vermont children includes riding a school bus every day and parents thinking about the coming school year, planning schedules, packing lunches and having the students ready for the bus. Meeting the needs of eight supervisory unions are the drivers and equipment of Bet-Cha Transit.
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