Patrick Herrin, a senior at Essex High School, was recently selected as one of five Vermont students to receive a National Merit Scholarship.
In the U.S., 2,500 students were chosen to receive the $2,500 scholarship from a pool of about 16,000 finalists, according to a press release. The number of winners named in each state is proportional to the stateâs percentage of the nationâs graduating high school seniors.
Herrin was selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors, who reviewed applications submitted by both the finalists and their high schools. Students submitted academic records, Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores, a personal essay, their contributions and leadership to school and community activities and a recommendation written by a high school official.
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South Burlington has the best public high school in Vermont, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
In its annual list, the US News Best High Schools ranked around 17,860 public high schools after reviewing nearly 24,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia. The rankings came out this week and include familiar names in Chittenden County, as well as across the state.
Nationally the list pulls from public high schools as well as charter, magnet, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) focused schools.
Although South Burlington High School tops the state s list, seven other local high schools make the ranking.
After waiting over a year, a pair of former Essex High superstars will finally be recognized with one of the stateâs highest athletics honors.
When the Vermont Sports Hall of Fameâs Class of 2020 was originally announced Jan. 29 of last year, the plan had been to hold the annual induction ceremony and banquet April 25, 2020. Once the pandemic happened, however, those plans were put on hold.
Libby Smith Courtesy of LPGA
Instead, former Hornets Libby Smith and Sarah Schreib will be honored during a virtual celebration at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 29.
The link to the event, which is being produced by Regional Educational Television Network and presented by Myers Waste, will be posted at vermontsportshall.com. The video will also be made available for replay afterwards.
New cases of COVID-19 in Essex dropped for the third-straight week as there were 24 reported for the town between April 15-21, according to the Vermont Department of Health.
Editor s Note
Disclaimer: These numbers are based on data shared by the Vermont Department of Health. Sometimes, the DOH will update previous days data based on newly-received information in later days.
For the fifth-straight week, Essex has registered more new cases of COVID-19 than the week before. For the period of March 4-10, the town is listed by the Vermont Department of Health as having 38 new cases documented that being the most since the week ending Jan. 20.
Essex has averaged 29 new cases per week since mid-November. In the latest town-by-town report, it had the second-most new cases in Chittenden County and accounted for 17.6% of the countyâs new cases in the week that being over the 11.9% Essex has accounted for in Chittenden Countyâs total since the state started recording data last March.