WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Nonprofit organizations that rely on volunteer drivers to provide much-needed services to the Upper Valley’s aging population are facing a new challenge.While the Upper Valley’s volunteer driver shortage predates the COVID-19.
LEBANON A steady number of people stopped by the Upper Valley Senior Center on Tuesday to pick up banana boxes filled with bags of food and insulated bags containing hot meals. The late-morning sun was shining, and the volunteers were set to deliver.
Multiple Upper Valley schools will be closed this week, some of them for multiple days, because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases among staff and students.Schools in the Orange East Supervisory Union including Thetford Elementary, Bradford.
LEBANON The leaders of the Grafton County Senior Citizen Council had felt optimistic in the spring. That was when COVID-19 cases in the area were declining and vaccination rates were increasing.“As the (case) numbers were decreasing in the late.