Ilsley Library opened its new outside pickup service today! Children’s Librarian Tricia Allen reports that “a good portion of the children’s item requests that I pulled from our shelves yesterday for our first day of book pickup were titles having to do with race, inequality, and activism.” We asked Tricia and her fellow children’s librarian […]
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When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida in 2012, Joanna Colwell’s daughter was 11 years old. Just old enough, Colwell recalled, to walk by herself to the store in East Middlebury for a Snapple. “It was not in my consciousness that she could be the victim of violence,” Colwell said. “And that is what it
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I was on vacation with my husband, Bryan, and 5-year-old son, Emmett, camping in Florida when the pandemic rapidly unfolded. We managed to ride out the rest of our trip, easily social distancing in the Ocala National Forest in a very low-use, primitive campground. As it got closer to the return trip home we knew
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The Mount Abraham Union School District has been interviewing its students, teachers and administrators during the pandemic shutdown, asking them to reflect on the sudden changes in their working/learning lives. Nancy Cornell, the editor and publisher of Vermont Learning, a free weekly online newspaper for educators, compiled the interviews into a comprehensive look at how folks
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Every year a group of early literacy advocates called Addison County Readers sets up tables at local events to spread the word about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, the program they sponsor that sends books in the mail to kids ages birth to 5 — for free. This year, because of the pandemic, the local group
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MiniBury: How will your daily operations change? Linda January: [Before the pandemic] we usually had 45 kids a day in four different classrooms. When we reopen we’ll have three classrooms and a max of 26 children a day. Our capacity is going way down. And that is in order to maintain small groups and feel
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By Grace Elletson, VTDigger.org Newly released guidelines from the Scott administration give child care providers a first look at what reopening their facilities will have to look like — if they reopen at all. Gov. Phil Scott announced May 8 that Vermont’s child care providers can begin to reopen their facilities to all families on
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This will likely be a short column, because we are in the midst of putting in our garden. I have a complex relationship with my garden — as, I suspect, do many. Starting around March, a feeling that has lain dormant throughout the winter begins to stir in me: panic. Suddenly, I feel the urge
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We checked in with Michelle Black, who teaches at Wren’s Nest Forest Preschool, about her school’s experience transitioning to remote learning. MiniBury: How is remote learning going? Michelle: It has been really challenging figuring out how to connect with “Forest Preschoolers” via the computer. Our philosophy at Wren’s Nest was to get outside as fast
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