Jim Kenyon: Checking in at year’s end Jim Kenyon. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 1/3/2021 11:12:47 AM Before we get too far into 2021, I wanted to check in with a few people who I wrote about last year to see how they’re doing. In the good news department, Oxbow High School senior Sierra Longmoore is back home in Newbury, Vt., after suffering a life-threatening head injury in a one-car crash as she was driving to her babysitting job shortly before 8 a.m. on July 8. “She’s throwing softballs with her sister, throwing footballs with her dad and running around with the dogs,” her mother, Amy, told me last week. “It’s pretty amazing when you think where she was a few months ago.”