Benjamin Deflorio News Today

When I met Ben Rapson for lunch in early November, the Randolph resident pointed out a quirk of his central Vermont town: Its main streets...

A July tour for prospective students at Vermont State University's Lyndon campus drew precisely one: Trinitie Simonds — and she already had been accepted at...

Last fall, I was reading a New Yorker exposé about Teen Challenge — a Christian organization that runs a network of residential programs for troubled teens — when a paragraph stopped me in my tracks. "In May, 2020, Naomi Wood, a student at the Lakeland Teen Challenge, died," the article said. "She had been throwing up, almost constantly, for more than twenty-four hours. On the last day of her life, Naomi, who was born in Liberia and adopted by a family in Vermo...

On May 19, 2020, Debbie and Al Wood were sitting around a campfire in the front yard of their Barnard home, enjoying a belated Mother's...