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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   SOUTH NEWFANE — Tasked with coming up with a policy proposal for a graduate school class, Juliette Carr originally thought her idea might be too simple. She wanted the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children benefits to be redeemable at farmers markets in Vermont just like those associated with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards. “That’s problematic because WIC is much more broadly available,” she said. Carr wrote a policy brief with the goal of improving health equity, access to healthy ...

Related Company:  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont volunteer, Jacob Houston, loads the van for drop off at the Orange County Parent Child Center. Vermont Business Magazine A new food pilot was born in April as an offshoot of the highly successful Everyone Eats Vermont project. This idea came from Capstone Executive Director Sue Minter’s goal to expand mobility to Vermonters through greater transportation and food access. By decentralizing the food shelf delivery system and providing meals in concert with child support services, Capstone is responding to what people need to be successf...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — Vermont Everyone Eats, a COVID-19 response program, this week celebrated one million restaurant meals served to Vermonters experiencing any of the negative effects of the pandemic. The program was launched in August 2020 with an allocation of $5 million of the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund contracted by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development to Southeastern Vermont Community Action Agency. The program would have expired in December, but widespread community support and advocacy empowered the program and ...

View Comments April 29 was an important day for Vermont Everyone Eats, the state's unique food assistance program that partners with local farms and restaurants to offer free meals to Vermonters in need. The program served its millionth meal on April 29, the same day the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced a grant of nearly $2 million for the program. Vermont Everyone Eats launched in the early months of the COVID pandemic with the aim of helping hungry Vermonters, local farmers and the restaurant industry alike. From the spring through the fall of 2020, more than one in four...

COVID-19: Relatives are welcome at Dartmouth College vaccine clinics Modified: 4/28/2021 8:52:44 PM HANOVER — The COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Dartmouth College next week will be open to family members of Dartmouth students, staff and faculty regardless of where they reside, college officials announced. The hope is that the clinics will help get the college and community up to the 70% to 90% vaccination rate that is necessary to achieve herd immunity, Provost Joe Helble said during a virtual community conversation on Wednesday. “We are not yet there on our campus,” Helble said. As of...