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SUNDERLAND — Families in the Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union have the chance to take part in a pilot program to provide home test kits for COVID-19.

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Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   SOUTH LONDONDERRY — State Rep. Kelly Pajala knows a lot of people have been dealing with a lack of affordable housing options in Vermont. Now, the crisis has arrived at Pajala’s front door, uninvited. The condominium Pajala has rented for six years in Londonderry is not listed for sale. But that didn’t stop someone from inquiring of its owner about the possibility of buying the unit. That could leave Pajala, I-Windham-Benning...

LONDONDERRY — Amy Harlow has been hired to serve as the new principal at Flood Brook School. Superintendent Randi Lowe of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union announced the hire at the Taconic & Green Regional School District board Tuesday. “I am pleased and excited to share that we have hired a new principal for the Flood Brook School,” Lowe wrote in her report to the T&G board. Harlow is currently the principal at Washington Village Campus of the Echo Valley Community Schoo...

Two schools announced additional COVID-19 cases recently. Long Trail School Head of School Seth Linfield said LTS had three students in two families test positive and Flood Brook School has announced three additional positive tests. Both schools were able to maintain in-class school with quarantines for the individuals involved and close contacts. LTS Linfield said the students had been on campus but the schools health team in coordination with the Vermont Department of Health determined that i...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BURLINGTON — Mentor Vermont has awarded 24 grants, totaling $347,850, to support youth mentoring programs throughout the state. The funds will support more than 100 new and existing program sites, and nearly 1,500 adult-to-youth mentor pairs in communities across Vermont. Mentor Vermont awarded two grants to agencies that support youth living in Bennington County: a grant of $25,100 to The DREAM Program, a statewide mentoring agency that...