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Editor s note: Leland & Gray Union High School senior Emma Stover, the subject of the accompanying article, wrote this essay as a start to prompt her thinking about her story.
My name is Emma Stover and I am a senior at Leland & Gray Union High School in Townshend, Vermont. When I was 7 years old I witnessed my mother using drugs for the first time, an image that will never leave my head. My father left my mother and I at a young age, forcing us to survive and live off of what we had and the people around us. My mother financially depended on my grandparents for support, making family tensions very prominent throughout my childhood years. I was introduced to people and places that no child should ever have to witness, making me see the difficulties and hardships of life at a very young age. Inevitably I was removed from the household my mother resided in, resulting in me living with my grandparents in Jamaica, Vermont. During
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The restaurant and market opened on Sept. 15 at 9709 Red Arrow Highway in Bridgman.
Pizza is âour bread-and-butterâ said Steve Zieverink, who owns the business with his wife, Wendy Uhlman.
The menu offers many speciality pies including Margarita, Classic Pepperoni, Fungi Madness, Prosciutto Parma, Caprese, Seasonal Italian Greens, and The Nonna (the Emma Hearth & Market website notes the pizzas are âinspired by our Italian Nonna Emma and her Southern Italy Calabrian rootsâ). They can be ordered in Roman (thin crust with a leopard edge) or Altaglio style (deep dish style as made by Nonna Emma and sold by the slice or as a whole pie).