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MANCHESTER â A Burr and Burton Academy senior has won national recognition for an effort to stock school restrooms with menstrual products.
Mary Mendez, 18, of Manchester Center, was named as one of two top youth volunteers in Vermont of 2021 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, which is billed as the countryâs âlargest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteer community service.â
The idea for The Point, as Mendezâ initiative is known, arose after the student found herself in need of a menstrual product while on campus but far from the health center, where such items were available. A long uphill walk in search of a single pad left Mendez âirritated by that fact that it wasnât easily [available] in the restrooms or at the bottom of the hill,â she said.
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MANCHESTER â The Select Board held its annual town informational meeting Saturday, but just about everything about the meeting was different this year due to changes forced by the coronavirus pandemic.
Instead of hundreds of people milling about in the Manchester Elementary Middle School gymnasium and sitting in the bleachers and folding chairs, Manchester residents instead logged on to the townâs Zoom meeting.
At its height, the number of people in the Zoom meeting was 75, well short of even the smallest in-person meeting participation.
âThis is a new experience for all of us,â said Select Board Chairman Ivan Beattie to open the meeting. âThis is not town meeting as we have all come to know it. This is an information meeting.â
Jackie Wilson, the former BRSU superintendent and principal at Manchester Elementary Middle School has stepped in as principal of Flood Brook School after former principal Neal McIntyre turned in his
LONDONDERRY — Flood Brook School Principal Neal McIntyre announced Wednesday that he was stepping down and a familiar face will be filling in for a couple of months.