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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Since January, when they opened, four newly renovated apartments in the Woolson Block devoted to young people between the ages of 18 and 24 have been full.Even amid the hot housing market, two youths have so far graduated from these...

Springfield Hospital hires next CEO Springfield Hospital’s Board of Directors has announced Robert S. Adcock will be its new Chief Executive Officer. (Courtesy photograph) Modified: 4/5/2021 9:18:27 PM SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield Hospital has hired a health care consultant to serve as its next CEO, according to a hospital news release. Robert “Bob” Adcock, of Wildwood, Mo., is set replace interim CEO Mike Halstead later this month. Adcock most recently provided consulting services t...

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Dartmouth College received an all-time high of more than 28,000 undergraduate applications this year, according to the provost.Undergraduate applications to Dartmouth are up 32% over the prior year, while...

The COVID-19 economy has kept an outsized number of women out of the workforce “I never envisioned myself being the stay-at-home-mom type,” said Renee Epler, who worked for more than 10 years as a nurse in critical care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, then in the emergency department at Springfield (Vt.) Hospital until the coronavirus pandemic began. She now takes per diem work at the hospital so she can be home to help her daughter Autymn, 10, who is on an individualized education program, with he...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Moderna determined that 860 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine stored at Springfield Hospital are “effective and safe for use,” according to the Vermont Department of Health.The doses’ viability came into question on Tuesday after a...

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...