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• Young Writers Project: ‘Ours’

  01-02-2026 13:04 via vtdigger.org
  “Welcome,” by Isla Segal, 14, WoodstockYoung Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwriterspr
  
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• Leanne Harple: Don’t treat rural schools as mistakes

  01-02-2026 13:03 via vtdigger.org
  This commentary is by Rep. Leanne Harple, D-Glover, who serves on the House Committee on Education.The Northeast Kingdom — known to all who live here as the NEK — is where I was born, where I grew up, and where I am now raising my own children on the same dirt road where I grew up. My love for the NEK runs deep. One of the things I cherish most about this place is that we have always done things a little differently — and often a little better — than the rest of the
  
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• Then Again: The ‘perfect run’ that made her Olympic alpine legend

  01-02-2026 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  Andrea Mead Lawrence, center, awaits race results during the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway. Photo courtesy of U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of FameIt would have been natural for Andrea Mead Lawrence to be nervous as her skis nudged the starting line and she awaited the race official’s tap on her back and the command to go. The moment she had been training so hard for — the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway — had arrived. Lawrence wasn’t the only one waiting her sho
  
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• Then Again: The ‘perfect run’ that made an Olympic legend

  01-02-2026 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  Andrea Mead Lawrence, center, awaits race results during the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway. Photo courtesy of U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of FameIt would have been natural for Andrea Mead Lawrence to be nervous as her skis nudged the starting line and she awaited the race official’s tap on her back and the command to go. The moment she had been training so hard for — the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway — had arrived. Lawrence wasn’t the only one waiting her sho
  
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• A Vermont sportscaster’s behind-the-scenes replay of a half-century of Olympics

  01-02-2026 12:55 via vtdigger.org
  Thetford-based announcer Peter Graves poses with Vermont-schooled Olympic skier Mikaela Shiffrin. Photo courtesy of Peter Graves
  Peter Graves was an aspiring 27-year-old sportscaster when ABC offered him a 1980 Winter Olympics gig with a two-week paycheck that rivaled his annual entry-level salary.The one stipulation: “Did I know Bill Koch,” he recently recounted to VTDigger, “and did I have access to him?” Graves said “yes” about Koch, the publicity-adv
  
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• Upper Valley Red Cross volunteers remain committed in spite of dwindling ranks

  01-02-2026 12:51 via vtdigger.org
  Linda Nordman, of White River Junction, closes up a Red Cross storage unit in West Lebanon, N.H., on Wednesday, Jan. 21. Nordman, who says she is sometimes “a bit fanatical” about being prepared,” keeps her van loaded with kits of toiletries, phone chargers, teddy bears, pet food and resources for people who have been impacted by fires and other catastrophic events. “I know what it’s like to be desperate and need help.” Photo by James M. Patterson/Valley News
  
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