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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON â€” Laur Grande, RN, has always found her job as a nurse rewarding. But at a vaccination clinic at the former Southern Vermont College gymnasium on Wednesday, she said this was “probably the most rewarding experience,” of her career. “It was such an honor,” Grande said about vaccinating a 100 year old man, recently. While vaccinations moved from the Southern Vermont Medical Center campus to the former gymnasium well over a week ago, the site looks different than it did a week ago. “We are learning as...

What would entice a law enforcement officer with no farming background to quit the force and start making maple syrup for a living? For Jack Powers, owner of Happy Jack’s Maple in Locke, New York, it was his children. His first child, David, was born with Down syndrome. Powers immediately realized that when his son would look for a job down the road, he might have trouble finding a suitable position. As daughters Brooke, now 8, and Julia, now 6, were added to the family, it became obvious that either Powers or his wife, Jennifer, should dedicate themselves to parenting at home to meet th...

It's the story of lieutenant jack powers, a navy flyer, he grew up just miles from here in a modest apartment in washington heights, right up the road. he then went on to the united states naval academy, incredible place. there his roommates said of jack, "never trust him to respect convention realities, because he wasn't a conventional person." he's a hilarious rebel and his own man. you'll like him and really like him a lot, but you know what? he's just a different kind of a guy. in other words, he was a new yorker. [applause] by the attack on pearl harbor, jack had already served six years ...

Months that followed, the allies suffered many defeats and many, many casualties. japan captured in footholds across the pacific and was closing in on australia. in may 1942 the army moved on the base just a few hundred miles from australian shores. it was there off the coast that american and australian ships met the enemy in the coral sea. on the morning of may 7th, jack powers launched his dauntless dive bomber from the depth and a deck the yorktown. he was some flyer, i could tell you that, some great flyer.

They were knocking out ship after ship. he flew into another carrier straight into a hail of oncoming lead and the fire to lend a devastating blow on its deck. seconds later, the colossal blast, the one jack was talking about and saying we have to take the risk, engulfed in flame and jack was gone, he was dead. he was brave. what a job he did. sometime before jack died, wired home to father in new york. it read dear dad, 1,000 miles away doesn't make any differenc difference. your bad son is thinking of you and hoping that he is worthy of being called a chip off the old block. his father was a...