Here is a preview of winter sports at U-32. Boy’s Basketball 2016-17 record: 16-4, 4th in DII Playoff performance: Lost 60-50 in the quarterfinals to Mount St. Joseph Season Preview After graduating three key seniors in Kyle Booth, Quintin Pelzel,…
Year: 2017
This Woolly Life Episode 667
Welcome to This Woolly Life, the Woolly Mammoth’s podcast. In this episode, we will delve deep into the real story behind the #freeJed and #freeHans movement. Speaking about this issue is Jed’s brother, Waylon Kurts. He tells an amazing narrative…
Choose Your Own Adventure: ZOO-F.O. Part 4
The curtains blow quietly, past them, rain splashes against the tin roof. The house is still and quiet, shadows slump hidden behind every object. “Olivia? You up?” Mom pokes her head into my room. I put on a fake, pained…
Kingsbury Dam: How Renewable Energy Works
This story is part of a three part series about Kingsbury Dam. To learn more about U-32’s relationship with the dam see Kingsbury Dam: Did U-32 Drop the Ball? . To learn more about the economics of the dam and group net…
Kingsbury Dam: The Deal That Went Wrong
This story is part of a three part series about the Kingsbury Dam. To read more about U-32’s relationship with the dam check out Kingsbury Dam: Did U-32 Drop the Ball? . To learn more about how the dam works see Kingsbury…
Kingsbury Dam: Did U-32 Drop the Ball?
With additional reporting by Cooper Lamb and Shannon O’Kelly This story is part of a three part series about the Kingsbury Dam. To learn more about the economics of the dam and group net metering see Kingsbury Dam: The Deal…
Welcome to Eckankar
There aren’t a lot of them– only about ten, at first–but over the course of an hour it grows to fifteen in the basement of Hubbard Library. They introduce themselves, all sitting in a circle together in fold out chairs.…
Budget Crunch: The Quiz
Around eight o’clock on November 1st, as the U-32 School Board sat in the old Driver’s Ed room, Superintendent Bill Kimball stood in front of the group drawing a diagram on the whiteboard. He used boxes and arrows in an…
Suspension: A Consistent Policy?
Editors’ Note: The cases described in this piece contain details from the students interviewed and have not been corroborated by other sources. Last month a crowd gathered in the atrium, recording on their iPhones as two girls fought, pulling each…
Life with Nine Fingers Part 2: A Partial Recovery
Three years ago, Bonnie Gadapee, a business teacher at U-32, was hit by a car while riding down Route Two in Concord, VT. Her left side was injured severely and after forty minutes of lying on the asphalt road, she…
Local Band: Boomslang
Friday night, Sweet Melissa’s: A small venue for three local groups. On stage stood two men; one tall and one short. One with short hair and the other with dreads that exceed his waist. Both holding microphones, tearing into yet…
“Vulnerable in our community”: The Middlesex Mental Health Story Part 2
The rooms are large, with beautiful wooden beds, a single desk and chair, and a closet, similar to what they would have at home. Pictures and paintings hang on the walls, making the room their own. But this isn’t home.…
Issac Kingwood: Marine Poolee
Issac Kingwood walks up the stairs to the door of the St. Johnsbury Marine Corps Recruiting Center. “Sir, Poolee Kingwood requesting permission to enter the room, sir.” Inside the recruiting station, Sgt Richardson, the recruiter for 2nd squad, watches Kingwood…
The Davin Code: Hopes and Dreams
When Junior Olivia Bates entered her extended TA for callback in early September to set goals for the coming school year, she felt that she was going to be wasting her time. “You just bring up all the past things…
Tobacco Sting: Enforcing the Law
The woman bends down in front of the tobacco display and picks up a Vuse e-cigarette. “Do you think this will work?” she asks, smacking her gum as she opens the container and and exposes the liquid filled vial inside.…