Twin State delegation hails earmarks’ Leahy-led return to Congress
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., looks on as Ellie Thibodeau, front left, and Sawyer Pringle, front right, show him their experiment of storing root vegetables through winter in a hole below the frost line in a corner of the Sharon Elementary School garden in Sharon, Vt., Thursday, May 6, 2021. Leahy recently introduced new legislation to expand Farm to School programs and visited the school to promote the programs. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wrote the charter of Farm to School programs and spoke of their benefits during a visit to Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt., Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
NH Business Review
‘We’ve done great,’ but potential surge is still possible
April 18, 2021
Residents of the Twin States continue to get vaccinated at relatively high rates and mask mandates in New Hampshire are easing, but Covid-19 cases and hospitalization rates also remain high.
When ranked nationally, New Hampshire comes in second and Vermont fourth in terms of Covid-19 vaccine administration per 100,000 people, according to the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation’s weekly Covid-19 modeling report.
As of April 15, 181,500 Vermonters, 29% of the state’s population, and 363,300 Granite Staters, almost 27% of the population, were fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid data tracker. A larger share had received at least one dose: in Vermont, 278,600, nearly 45%, and in New Hampshire, 764,600, more than 56%.
New Hampshire and Vermont are excelling in COVID-19 vaccination, but there’s plenty more to do
Phil Greene, a Lebanon firefighter and paramedic, left, gives Steve Heath, of Andover, N.H., right, a dose of COVID-19 vaccine during a clinic at the former JC Penney in West Lebanon, N.H., Thursday, April 15, 2021. As of April 2, New Hampshire residents over the age 16 or older became eligible to receive the vaccine. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
The line for COVID-19 vaccines at a clinic run by the New Hampshire National Guard at the former JC Penney in West Lebanon, N.H., ran outside on a rainy Thursady, April 15, 2021. The clinic had scheduled 1,300 appointments, almost triple the daily capacity that the National Guard could serve at their site in Claremont. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without pe