THE NUMBERS
Two Vermonters died of COVID-19 over the past day, the state Department of Health reported Thursday. The death toll is now 181.
The department reported 165 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. The reported total of 12,503 is 174 higher than the total reported Wednesday. The department did not explain the discrepancy.
Bennington County continues to have the highest rate of COVID-19 among Vermont counties, at 321.9 cases per 10,000 residents since the beginning of the pandemic. Chittenden County is second, at 253.9, while the rate in Windham County is 190.4.
Bennington County has reported 309 new cases over the past two weeks, and Windham County has reported 66. Chittenden County, Vermontâs largest county, has had 471 over the same period.
Out & About: Help with tax prep in a taxing time
Liz Sauchelli. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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Older adults and lower-income earners in the Upper Valley will still have access to free tax preparation assistance this year; it’s just going to be a different process during the pandemic.
Instead of sitting side-by-side with a volunteer tax preparer, people can drop off their paperwork and pick it up at a later time. In years past, AARP tax preparation clinics took place at the Upper Valley Senior Center in downtown Lebanon. Now they’ve been moved to 20 W. Park St. People will still call the senior center at 603-448-4213, to make an appointment on a Tuesday from Feb. 2-April 13. But they will bring their documents to the parking lot at 20 W. Park St., call a volunteer who will come down and get their paperwork, then wait in the parking lot until their taxes ar
Shocked. Dismayed. Saddened. Ashamed. Horrified. Disgusted. Outraged. Those are just a few of the words flooding through my mind to try in vain to describe my feelings about the brutal violation of our nation, our democracy, our culture, our character.
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Skylar Marshall, a volunteer with Everyone Eats, in Brattleboro, Vt., picks up order forms from a line of vehicles outside the Brattleboro Winter Farmersâ Market, on Flat Street, on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. The program, Everyone Eats, restarted on Monday after stopping for a few weeks because of funding running out from the CARES Act on Dec. 30, 2020. Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) allocated $1.6 million to Southeastern Vermont Community Action, the Everyone Eats Program Administrator, to relaunch programming.
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Frances Huntley, a site coordinator for Everyone Eats, in Brattleboro, Vt., collects meals to fill out an order on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. The program, Everyone Eats, restarted on Monday after stopping for a few weeks because of funding running out from the CARES Act on Dec. 30, 2020. Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) allocated $1.6 million to Sout
COVID-relief program on track to deliver 400,000 restaurant-prepared meals. Photos by Jennifer Sensenich
Vermont Business Magazine
Vermont Everyone Eats organizers and partners gathered at one of the program’s weekly distribution points to highlight the impact the COVID-relief program has made in the eight weeks since its launch. In August, the Vermont Legislature provided $5 million in CARES Act funding to create this program that engages restaurants to prepare meals for Vermonters hit by the pandemic.
“Just three months since funding was granted,
VT Everyone Eats “Hubs” have launched in all 14 counties, engaging more than 100 Vermont restaurants and distributing meals at over 130 distribution sites,” said Steve Geller, Executive Director of Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA), the agency overseeing the statewide effort. “The COVID pandemic has inspired many of us to step up and take action. With