For us, fundraising falls into the “necessary evil” category. No one likes to do it and fewer still like to participate. That’s why we are delighted to hear that the Mary Hogan Read-a-thon is Middlebury Elementary School’s Association’s (MESA) only fundraiser. And the month-long challenge focuses on reading rather than traditional product selling. Last year, students read over 562,000 minutes […]
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October is nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. In Addison County, you’ll find many healthcare providers that offer women’s health services. Today, MiniBury is spotlighting one of those providers: Tapestry Midwifery and Women’s Health. Whether your daughter has recently graduated from the pediatricians office, you’ve found out you’re
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In case you missed the video on Monday about Middlebury Foods; we’re reviewing the local non-profit today. Trust us, their aim, like ours, is to save you time and money. Sounds great, right?! Read on for more details about how you and your family can save on groceries.
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Let’s Grow Kids and 20 sponsoring organizations (including MiniBury!) invite you to join the statewide conversation about Vermont’s child care challenge by participating in a series of community forums happening across Vermont this fall! Vermonters agree that every child deserves a strong start to life. Yet, more than half of Vermont infants and toddlers likely to need child
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This summer, books on tape – aka audio books – transformed our long car rides from arduous journeys into enjoyable family time. Our eldest children love the stories and the baby is soothed by relaxing cadence of the readers. However, after purchasing a few audio books on iTunes and blowing through our weekly podcasts, our need for a cheaper
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Buzz words like consolidation, restructuring and governance consolidation have provoked plenty of passionate conversations recently. As a result, there are assumptions being made by both parents of school children and tax payers about the future of our schools founded on, you guessed it, rumors. Fortunately for you, the kind folks over at the ACSU are working
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Parents of preshool children listen up; we need your help! Please complete this VERY SHORT but VERY IMPORTANT survey regarding FREE PreKindergarten programs. Click the link below to take the survey, it will take under 2 minutes — promise, we’ve taken it ourselves. Addison County PreK Parent Survey Act 166 will provide 10 hours/week for 35
Stay tuned… our regular entertaining and somewhat useful posts will be real back soon.
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Parent’s Night Out with Vicki Hoefle RESCHEDULED for Tuesday, September 8, 7 p.m. Back-to-school time is the perfect time to retool family and home routines. Parenting expert and Middlebury local Vicki Hoefle will present her latest book, The Straight Talk on Parenting, to help you get your kids, and your home life, in order. Hoefle
