COVID-19: Vermont eases restrictions on residents of border towns
Modified: 2/26/2021 9:50:04 PM
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION There’s good news for Upper Valley residents who live near the Connecticut River. Vermont this week relaxed its COVID-19 travel restrictions slightly so that residents of border towns can travel across the river in a limited zone without quarantining.
“Those living in Vermont may travel 5 miles into adjacent states without quarantining upon return to Vermont. Those living in adjacent states within 5 miles of the Vermont border may travel 5 miles into Vermont without quarantining,” the Agency of Commerce and Community Development announced on its website on Thursday.
Simple Syrup Recipe
1 cup water Any one of the following dried flowers:
1 Tablespoon rosemary flowers
1 Tablespoon lavender buds 2 hibiscus calyxes
1 Tablespoon elderflowers
Directions for simple syrup
Heat and stir until sugar dissolves; boil 1 minute without stirring
Add flowers; let cool; pour into clean glass container
Store in refrigerator for up to 2 months
Are you ready to mix your drinks? Here are some of our favorite winter quenchables and comforting mugs! Give them a try and let me know how you like them. Then create your own liquid concoctions and share them with me.
Holiday Punch
Remember those borage flowers you froze in ice cubes? And the lovely rosemary buds you dried? Now is the time to pull them out and add delicious herbal notes to your holiday punch bowl! The flavor complexity of citrus fruits and herbs will keep you filling your glass.
not bugs. The Whos are just small people.”
Helen’s vision would win out in the TV special a decade later, but the Whos in the book do resemble talking insects, the descendants of Ted’s early ad contracts with Standard Oil’s premier bug spray. Her influence over the book is comprehensive ― the narrator wonders if the Grinch’s shoes are a few sizes too small before concluding that, actually, it’s his heart that is undersized.
After wrestling over different religious themes for the ending, Ted and Helen decided to cut out the Bible altogether and let the Grinch settle down to dinner with the Whos, slicing the roast beast as everyone lives happily ever after.