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Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON â€” Laur Grande, RN, has always found her job as a nurse rewarding. But at a vaccination clinic at the former Southern Vermont College gymnasium on Wednesday, she said this was “probably the most rewarding experience,” of her career. “It was such an honor,” Grande said about vaccinating a 100 year old man, recently. While vaccinations moved from the Southern Vermont Medical Center campus to the former gymnas...

What would entice a law enforcement officer with no farming background to quit the force and start making maple syrup for a living? For Jack Powers, owner of Happy Jack’s Maple in Locke, New York, it was his children. His first child, David, was born with Down syndrome. Powers immediately realized that when his son would look for a job down the road, he might have trouble finding a suitable position. As daughters Brooke, now 8, and Julia, now 6, were added to the family, it became obvious ...

Its the story of lieutenant jack powers, a navy flyer, he grew up just miles from here in a modest apartment in washington heights, right up the road. he then went on to the united states naval academy, incredible place. there his roommates said of jack, "never trust him to respect convention realities, because he wasnt a conventional person." hes a hilarious rebel and his own man. youll like him and really like him a lot, but you know what? hes just a different kind of a guy. in other words, he...

Months that followed, the allies suffered many defeats and many, many casualties. japan captured in footholds across the pacific and was closing in on australia. in may 1942 the army moved on the base just a few hundred miles from australian shores. it was there off the coast that american and australian ships met the enemy in the coral sea. on the morning of may 7th, jack powers launched his dauntless dive bomber from the depth and a deck the yorktown. he was some flyer, i could tell you that, ...

They were knocking out ship after ship. he flew into another carrier straight into a hail of oncoming lead and the fire to lend a devastating blow on its deck. seconds later, the colossal blast, the one jack was talking about and saying we have to take the risk, engulfed in flame and jack was gone, he was dead. he was brave. what a job he did. sometime before jack died, wired home to father in new york. it read dear dad, 1,000 miles away doesnt make any differenc difference. your bad son is thin...

They were knocking out ship after ship. he flew into another carrier straight into a hail of oncoming lead and the fire to lend a devastating blow on its deck. seconds later, the colossal blast, the one jack was talking about and saying we have to take the risk, engulfed in flame and jack was gone, he was dead. he was brave. what a job he did. sometime before jack died, wired home to father in new york. it read dear dad, 1,000 miles away doesnt make any difference. your bad son is thinking of yo...

Months that followed, the allies suffered many defeats and many, many casualties. japan captured in footholds across the pacific and was closing in on australia. in may 1942 the army moved on the base just a few hundred miles from australian shores. it was there off the coast that american and australian ships met the enemy in the coral sea. on the morning of may 7th, jack powers launched his dauntless dive bomber from the depth and a deck the yorktown. he was some flyer, i could tell you that, ...

They were knocking out ship after ship. he flew into another carrier straight into a hail of oncoming lead and the fire to lend a devastating blow on its deck. seconds later, the colossal blast, the one jack was talking about and saying we have to take the risk, engulfed in flame and jack was gone, he was dead. he was brave. what a job he did. sometime before jack died, wired home to father in new york. it read dear dad, 1,000 miles away doesnt make any differenc difference. your bad son is thin...

Grew up just miles from here in a modest apartment in washington heights, right up the road. he then went on to the united states naval academy, incredible place. there his roommates said of jack, "never trust him to respect convention realities, because he wasnt a conventional person." hes a hilarious rebel and his own man. youll like him and really like him a lot, but you know what? hes just a different kind of a guy. in other words, he was a new yorker. [applause] by the attack on pearl harbo...

Soon he dived straight at an enemy carrier and dropped his bomb so low, he was almost caught in the blast, he was badly hurt. but he escaped and the carrier sank. that night on the yorktown, jack urged the other pilots to take the same risk, he said thats the way you do it. thats the way you win. thats the way you sink them. whatever the cost even if it costs you your lives, thats thh way you sink the ship. the next morning he pressed his point again remembering he said at the folks homee are co...