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Students get lunch of homemade pizza and caesar salad at the Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, in Essex Junction, Vt., Thursday, June 9, 2022. The pandemic-era federal aid that made school meals available for free to all public school students — regardless of family income levels — is ending, raising fears about the effects in the upcoming school year for families already struggling with rising food and fuel costs. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

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Families brace for changes to pandemic-era free school meals
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Mon,06/27/22-8:06AM , 208 Reads
ESSEX, Vt. (AP) — Before the pandemic, there was no room in the budget for Kate Murphy’s children to buy lunch at school. She and her husband would buy in bulk and make bag lunches at home.
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Congress approves free student meal extension through summer
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Fri,06/24/22-3:03PM , 157 Reads
Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer.

Final passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act in the U.S. House came less than a week before rule changes for child nutrition programs were set to expire June 30.
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Cameron Beach, carries a carries a bucket of water on her head collected from a communal borehole in Dedza, near Lilongwe, Malawi, on July 23, 2021. Beach, a former Peace Corps volunteer, is living in rural Malawi teaching English at a rural high school where she had been sent by the United States government 18-months before COVID-19 began sweeping the world. The Peace Corps says it'll start sending volunteers overseas again in mid-March after it evacuated them from posts around the world two years ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Roy Nkosi, File)

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Peace Corps plans to start sending volunteers overseas again
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Thu,03/03/22-1:40PM , 176 Reads
The Peace Corps will start sending volunteers overseas again in mid-March after it evacuated them from posts around the world two years ago due to the COVID-19 pand
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Another danger to illicit drug users: Animal tranquilizer
By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press
Thu,12/23/21-12:09AM , 147 Reads
CHESTER, Vt. (AP) — Brooke Goodwin came home one night last March after being out with friends. She had just turned 23 the day before, had a good job and was planning to go away with friends the following weekend. Her mother, whose bedroom is next door to the kitchen, heard her daughter get some food and go to bed.
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