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• Award puts longtime child care provider in spotlight

  15-10-2017 20:42 via vtdigger.org
  Cheryl “Cookie” Danyow, left, of Addison, received the Early Educator of the Year Award given by the Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children. At right is Aly Richards, the organization’s CEO. Courtesy photo
  Early childhood educators recognized the work of a 30-year veteran at their annual retreat Thursday in Killington. Cheryl “Cookie” Danyow, who runs a preschool program out of her home in Addison, was named Vermont’s Early Educator of the Year.“Wor
  
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• Then Again: Once-popular sport made Vermonters stars

  15-10-2017 20:04 via vtdigger.org
  During the late 1800s, Henry Moses Dufur, of Richford, was among the world’s best collar and elbow wrestlers. Photo courtesy of Vermont Historical Society(“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about Vermont history.)
  Henry Moses Dufur was the world’s best wrestler, as far as he was concerned, and he aimed to prove it. So in 1879 he placed an ad in The New York Clipper, a sporting paper, challenging another vaunted wrestler, Jim Owens, to a match. The winner would t
  
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