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Learning Tree Childcare Center Achieves 5 STARS from State Regulators| 08:55AM / Wednesday, September 29, 2021 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — The Learning Tree Childcare Center at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), has earned 5 stars from Vermont's Step Ahead Recognition System (STARS). STARS participants include registered home providers, licensed children's centers, school-based pre-kindergarten programs, and school-age programs whose practices and programming exceed the requirements for becoming licensed by the State of Vermont. "This achievement represents sincere effort and serious commitment from the educators at the Learning Tree," said Kevin Dailey, SVHC's vice president of Human Resources, who 0 Comments
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Invasive Spotted Lanternfly Found in Worcester County| 04:03PM / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | |
 FITCHBURG, Mass. — The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) announced Tuesday that a small population of the invasive spotted lanternfly has been found in the City of Fitchburg, close to where a lanternfly nymph was reported earlier this summer. Agricultural inspectors are in the middle of performing surveys in the area, but currently the infestation is limited to a single cluster of three trees. While MDAR has not been able to determine the origin of the infestation, spotted lanternflies have been known to travel out of infested states on cars, trucks, and trains, during shipments of produce, sheds, and gazebos, trees and shrubs for landscaping, and 0 Comments
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School Mask Mandate Extended to NovemberStaff Reports,
11:01AM / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | |
 BOSTON — The mask requirement in schools has been extended out another month. Public school children aged 5 and older and all staff will have to wear masks inside school buildings until at least Nov. 1, with certain exemptions. The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in August declared "exigent circumstances" and authorized the Commissioner Jeffrey Riley to institute universal masking based on a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases throughout the state near the end of July. The mandate was put in place until at least Oct. 1. On Monday, Riley determined to extend the mask requirement "after consulting with medical experts and state 0 Comments
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Prepare yourself financially for illness … just in caseSubmitted by Edward Jones,
08:44AM / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | |
 All of us hope to live long, healthy lives, so we do what we can to take care of ourselves through proper diet, exercise and avoiding unhealthy activities. However, none of us can predict our future, so it pays to be prepared for anything – including a serious physical illness or the onset of some type of mental incapacity, such as Alzheimer's disease. Of course, you may never face these infirmities, but you should be aware that they could upset your long-term financial strategy and place considerable stress on your loved ones. What steps can you take to head off these threats? First, make sure you know what your health insurance covers and how much you might have to 0 Comments
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SVMC Cardiology Receives Echocardiography Reaccreditation from the IAC| 08:07AM / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) Cardiology has again achieved the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission's (IAC) accreditation for adult transthoracic and adult stress echocardiography. SVMC, which includes SVMC Cardiology, is one of only five facilities in the state that is accredited in adult stress echocardiography. "Receiving accreditation and board certification means that patients can be assured that we are following all the standards put forth by the leaders in the field, including high quality imaging equipment and registered technicians," said Scott Rogge, medical director of both Cardiology and the 0 Comments
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Williamstown Town Manager Search Committee Aims to Select Interviewees This WeekBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:36AM / Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | |
The Town Manager Search Advisory Committee meets with Michael Jaillet of GovHR (middle row, right) last week via Zoom. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Town Manager Search Advisory Committee plans this week to select candidates for an initial round of interviews. Last week, the advisory group began hammering out the kinds of questions it wants to ask, a process that co-chair Hugh Daley said he wants to complete at the committee's Tuesday meeting. Two days later the committee will choose interviewees from a list of applicants pre-screened by head-hunting firm GovHR. Daley said he hopes the search panel can wrap up its interviews — which will be 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk, owner of Neathawk Signs and Design, to create a 3D sign for the business.
Neathawk installed the sign late Monday afternoon that features multicolored hand prints from the children as the leaves of a tree poking out of the top. Underneath the name and address "a place to grow" is written. The children's hand prints were taken at the school and Neathawk then scanned them into her design programs to create the sign.
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