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Aria Leff of the Malikians with a note from a care package she sent Seventy teams from across the state participated, including a group of 60 St. Albans teens and a pair of Springfield siblings. As the Challenge Master, I got an email every time one of them submitted an entry. After a snowstorm, I d get a blizzard of submissions from kids who d shoveled snow for their neighbors. On Tuesdays and Fridays, I d hear from teams that listened to Gov. Phil Scott s COVID-19 press conferences. As Town Meeting Day approached, debate watching spiked in popularity.
Kids VT, inserted in this week’s paper. It includes a write-up about the team that completed the most activities 586 of them, to be exact. That team, the Malikians, is a fourth-grade class from Champlain Elementary School in Burlington; teacher Aziza Malik inspired the name.
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Michael Tonn
More than 1.6 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far this year; more than 300,000 of them were in the United States, and 100 were in Vermont. The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. It s driving up rates of depression, anxiety and overdose deaths, and causing record numbers of parents, mostly women, to leave the workforce to care for their kids. And the pandemic has isolated us from friends and family when we need them the most.
All of this has been taking place amid a bitter partisan battle for control of the federal government. Consequently, crucial relief measures that thousands of Vermonters rely on are scheduled to expire at the end of this month.