This special issue highlights consensus favorites alongside unknown individuals quietly doing an outstanding job. We sought out Vermonters who went above and beyond in roles that became more difficult or dangerous during the pandemic — from the chefs and community volunteers who creatively kept us fed to the wastewater managers who tested our poo for viral markers. We also surveyed our readers on the people, places and programs that kept them going — and going.
Abby Long of Kingdom Trails Association The latest study focuses on fixes to the clogs that jam Route 114 on busy weekends, including better parking, signs and road crossings. When it gets crazy, I ll stay away from East Burke because there are people parked all along the roadways, said MacDonald. He said customers who don t want to wait in long lines at East Burke beer venues find their way to his place. The growth study consultants also sketched out plans for a visitor center located off the main road on 10 acres that Kingdom Trails owns near the two general stores. Long sees the visitor center as a game changer for its potential to unite the Kingdom Trails community and enhance collaboration.
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When President
Joe Biden s administration announced last week that it would drop U.S. opposition to generic drug makers in developing countries getting recipes for COVID-19 vaccines, the change in policy resonated loudly in Vermont. It drew praise from Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Our vaccination efforts here at home will only be successful if vaccination efforts in the developing world happen simultaneously, he said in a statement. Supporting this [patent-protection] waiver, and putting people over profits, will help us to do that by speeding up the production and availability of vaccines. But at least one Vermonter was grumpy:
Howard Dean.
Luke Eastman | Rev. Diane Sullivan Eleanor Abbot contracted polio at age 36 and came up with the concept of a classic children s board game while convalescing in the hospital polio ward in 1947 with numerous children sufferers, the Our cover this week, spawned in this COVID-19 era, is based ever so loosely on the game but is decidedly
not for kids. There s no Licorice Lagoon or Peppermint Forest just the hazards of a Red Tape Snarl and a Governor s Veto. The board depicts in a whimsical way the twisting path Vermont has taken toward next year s start of legalized sales of cannabis for adults.