ADDISON COUNTY After enduring nearly 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions, from masks and social distancing to remote and hybrid classes, local high schools are on the verge of having an almost “norma
School nurses have been more important than ever keeping students safe during the COVID pandemic. Yet, Vermont still has a school nurse shortage.
The Vermont State School Nurses Association estimates there are about 350 school nurses, compared to the 391 K-12 schools in Vermont. That figure doesn t reveal how many part-time nurses there are, how many are shared across a district, or how many larger schools have multiple nurses.
Sophia Boyle Hall, president of the nurses association, said in her district in the Northeast Kingdom (Kingdom East School District), three schools have part-time nurses and one other school hasn t been able to hire one this year. In the Addison Central School District, six rural elementary schools share two nurses, according to Kelly Landwehr, that district s COVID Coordinator and high school nurse.
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John Flowers ANNE SEVERY, RIGHT, poses with MUHS choral teacher Liz LeBeau and members of the Tiger marching band at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City in 2017. After four decades bringing out the best in young musicians, Severy will retire at the end of this school year.
Photo courtesy Anne Severy LONGTIME MIDDLEBURY UNION High School music teacher Anne Severy, shown conducting her Tiger band in 2016, has decided to retire this spring after a 40-year career as an educator.
Photo courtesy Anne Severy ANNE SEVERY PLAYING the bass in 2013.
Photo courtesy Anne Severy
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MIDDLEBURY A group of 70 Middlebury Union Middle School students will be studying remotely this entire week in light of a recent, positive COVID-19 test confirmed among the MUMS community.
“Led by ACSD’s COVID-19 Coordinator Kelly Landwehr, we met with necessary members of school to help us with contact tracing and make decisions on how to best support our continuity of learning,” reads an email sent to the MUMS community this past weekend by Andrew Conforti, MUMS principal. “We are confident that we ve shared all critical information related to this positive case.”
It was a member of the school’s “Phoenix” team that recorded the positive test, according to school officials.