Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation
Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. Courtesy photos
Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph. The couple was married since 1954.
Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year.
Published: 3/9/2021 4:35:39 PM
Tammy Vaughan and her siblings headed south to Florida from central Vermont in mid-January to see their father, who was 90 and had been battling cancer.
Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation
Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. (Family photograph)
Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph the couple had been married since 1954. (Family photograph)
Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year. (Family photograph)
Modified: 3/7/2021 9:35:43 PM
Tammy Vaughan and her siblings headed south to Florida from central Vermont in mid-January to see their father, who was 90 and had been battling cancer.
Our pandemic year: COVID-19 long-haulers are still living with the disease
Wayne Tanner, 61, who had COVID-19 in late March 2020, watches his neighbors John Yurek, left, and his wife, Loretta, not pictured, carrying groceries to their Claremont, N.H., apartment on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Tanner’s infection was never confirmed with a test, but after checking his symptoms over the phone with his doctor and a visit from paramedics who checked his vital signs, he isolated inside his apartment for three weeks through a fever cough and loss of taste and smell. “My greatest fear was spreading it to them,” he said of the Yureks. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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Gerry Searles, right, of Lebanon, N.H., and Gordon Thomas look at the mural painted by Peter Michael Gish in the Vermont Room at the Coolidge Hotel in White River Junction, Vt., during an opening of the artist s work Friday, June 5, 2009. Every time I come back, I ve got to come and look at these because I think these murals are exceptionally good, said Thomas, a Dartmouth classmate of Gish. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
COVID-19: 7 residents test positive at Sullivan County nursing home
Staff reports
Modified: 1/8/2021 9:46:31 PM
Sullivan County Health Care on Friday said seven residents have tested positive and are in the Stearns 3 section of the nursing home at the county complex in Unity.
“We had required the use of N95 masks, including surgical masks, gowns and goggles or face shields to enter Stearns 3, and (are) providing resident care precautions on all floors,” nursing home Administrator Ted Purdy said in a letter to relatives of residents.
The positive cases among residents come after at least eight workers at the nursing home had tested positive. Staff and residents began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations this week. The county nursing home has 117 residents and 107 staff members.