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Month: March 2016

Looking Forward: Girls Softball

March 31, 2016 adminSports

It was a slow start for the girls softball program this preseason, as there weren’t enough players to field two teams. This was surprising for a program that has been strong for many years. The Raider’s Varsity team is in…

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Keebler Heist Remains Unsolved

March 29, 2016 adminWoolly Mammoth

The mystery surrounding the abandoned Keebler trailer at the Middlesex Weigh Station only thickened after yesterday’s press conference at the State Police Barracks.   Mitch Swinton, Director of Vermont’s Major Retail Crimes Unit, told a crowd of reporters, concerned citizens and…

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Helpless & Homeless in Central Vermont

March 29, 2016 adminCommunity

They’re poor and jobless. They’re nasty addicts. These are some of the things U-32 students have to say about homeless people. And in this story there are no photographs of the people interviewed. The homeless live with so much shame…

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Playing the Lottery: A Gamble Some Students Are Willing To Take

March 29, 2016 adminCommunity

On Tuesday, March 22, at 11 a.m, Tracy Martin and Lauren Van Deren were drawing important slips of paper from a not-so-important-looking brown box in the Guidance Office. This is the lottery. Not Powerball Lottery, but equally as life-changing for…

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Hairspray: Lost Nation’s most recent show-in-progress

March 24, 2016 adminCommunity

On Tuesday, March 15th, twelve students and four adult cast members of Lost Nation Theater’s upcoming show, Hairspray, were gathered in LNT’s staging space. Tuesday, March 15, was the first day of “two weeks of prep workshops to build skills…

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Shirtless: Should the dress code extend to sport practices?

March 24, 2016 adminCommunity

Jules Perkins, a member of the varsity cross country team this fall, remembers blistering temperatures during practice. “We have speed workouts when the temp is pushing 90 degrees, and that extra fabric on your skin is just  so uncomfortable in…

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Three Things To Know: U-32’s School Board Meeting

March 24, 2016 adminCommunity

At their March meeting, U-32’s school board discussed proposed cuts to science labs, finalized the hiring of U-32’s next Assistant Principal, and held a discussion with three state representatives about the potential impacts of Act 46, and the proposed legalization…

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No Snow, No Business: A rough season for Laquerre’s

March 24, 2016 adminCommunity

As most of us are enjoying not paying the plow guy to come plow our driveways, Joey Laquerre, owner of Laquerres Marine & Sports Center is not… He says the lack of snow has caused more than a 20 percent…

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Teen Depression and the Brain

March 13, 2016 adminCommunity

It seems as though depression in teens has risen over the years and many people don’t know why. People speculate that it is a personality thing, but really it’s psychological. U-32 student Olivia Bates was asked if she thought teen…

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A Dog’s Journey

March 13, 2016 adminCommunity

Gabby was a beloved German Shepherd at the Almost Home Dog Rescue, located in Berlin, Vermont. Before she was transported to Vermont, she lived in Florida, where she was used as a breeding dog until she reached the age of…

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To Be a Welder

March 13, 2016 adminCommunity

What does it mean to be a welder? Brad, the foreman at Dessureau Machine off Granite Street in Barre, said, “Making something from nothing, being able to go through different steps and coming out with an end piece that has…

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When Discussion is Lost: Berlin Town Meeting

March 6, 2016 adminCommunity

Town meeting has been a Vermont tradition for more than 200 years. Traditionally, the majority of a town’s voting citizens would meet on the first Tuesday in March to vote on the policies of the town in a large group…

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“Best Coffee at U-32”

March 6, 2016 adminCommunity

Shelby Lavigne has been working at the coffee cart for a couple weeks now.Usually people just stop by and say hi and maybe get coffee. They have had a small franchise out in the atrium for 3-4 years and they…

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One Student, Two Religions

March 6, 2016 adminCommunity

Sarah Ettouzar, a senior at U-32, was raised as both a Christian and a Muslim. Her father and her stepmother are Muslims and her mother is a Christian. Sarah’s mother lives in Rutland,Vermont and her father lives in Morocco, in…

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! or What the #*@% did they do to Doritos?

March 6, 2016March 6, 2016 adminCommunity

Lunches have changed a lot in the U-32 cafeteria in the past few years, even the Doritos. Doritos now have 25% less fat than regular Doritos, but why were the changes made to a time-honored junk food staple? The history…

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