One of the take-home activities at Ilsley Library’s curbside pick-up last week was “elephant toothpaste” — and hoo boy was it a hit at my house. It’s basically a big foamy chemical reaction created using easy-to-find ingredients. So I thought I’d share the recipe here, in case you missed the Ilsley kit. I found instructions […]
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Bram Allen is eight years old and he loves horror. “I think it’s because I was born in October, and that’s when all the scary stuff happens,” he explained. When Bram learned recently that Mary Shelley only wrote Frankenstein because she and her friends were taking part in a challenge to write the scariest ghost
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This story about two local 8th-graders working to make Holocaust learning mandatory in Vermont schools was first published in the Addison Independent. In January 1945, just months before the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by American forces, 16-year-old Jewish prisoner Elie Wiesel lay silently, fearfully in his bunk as his father was beaten to death
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For the second year in a row, one of the most important holidays in the Jewish community, Passover, will be disrupted by the pandemic. “Once a year, Jews devote a whole week to recalling the events of the Exodus,” explained Sarit Katzew, the director of education at Havurah of Addison County. “One way they do
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What fun to see the photos MiniBury readers snapped while completing their ACSD Winter Passports this year! Here are some favorites. Above, Kayden Castle, a Bridport Elementary School student zooms on his saucer. And below, he shoots out of some kind of amazing tube slide. Here’s Elaina Pelkey, 5, enjoying the ice at Vermont Trade
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Julie Schondube has been teaching kindergarten at Mary Hogan Elementary School for the last 19 years. This year looks a bit different — instead of hugs and high fives for individual greetings in the morning, the kids wave or dab or do a silly dance. Instead of sitting around tables, each kindergartener has their own
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Do you have a child starting kindergarten next fall? Registration is happening now. “This is a tricky year for enrollment because so many parents didn’t enroll their kids in preschool programming,” said Meg Baker, the universal pre-k coordinator for ACSD, MAUSD and ANWSD. A lot of families, facing the uncertainties of the pandemic, opted to
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Every March, Duclos & Thompson Farm in Weybridge holds an open barn event for the community, and thousands show up to mingle with the new lambs. The event was cancelled this year because of the pandemic, but the lambs are as cute as ever. I called up co-owner Lisa Thompson (pictured above) last week to
Want to visit a working maple sugar shack? Vermont’s Maple Open House Weekend was cancelled this year, but here’s a different way to get inside and see the magic happen — and stock up on maple goodies — thanks to the Sheldon Museum. You’re invited to take a sweet mystery tour on Saturday, March 20,
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