SHARON Camp Downer counselors in yellow life vests stood up to their necks in the middle of the camp’s pond, pushing dense tangles of weeds to the shoreline on warm July morning.“It’s really heavy,” counselor Lily Hankes of South Burlington, said..
Sharon man killed in logging accident
John Sears pulls a tire off a Toyota SUV to inspect the brakes while performing an inspection in Sharon, Vt., on April 11, 2013. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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SHARON Residents are grieving the death of a 64-year-old Sharon man killed in a logging accident Saturday while cutting up a tree he had felled.
John K. Sears was known not just for his auto repair shop but for his many good deeds around Sharon, from helping with projects and problems at Camp Downer to teaching children at Sharon Elementary School how to cross-country ski.
Upper Valley camp administrators happy to see programs return after shutdown summer
Anna McIntosh, of Middlebury, Vt., works to help raise a new platform tent in the Woodside unit at the Aloha Foundation s Lanakila camp in Fairlee, Vt., on May 25, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, summer camps were shuttered in 2020. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
A sign show campers who stayed in 2019 in the Woodside unit at the Aloha Foundation s Lanakila camp in Fairlee, Vt., on May 25, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, summer camps were shuttered in 2020, the first time in more than a century of operation for Aloha. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.