Month: March 2016

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…