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In March, a faculty bandleader decided to pull the Middlebury Union High School jazz band from a competition at the Flynn Center for Performing Arts over suspicions that musicians were getting stoned before school-sanctioned jams.

You should write about this in our school paper, one band member suggested to Liam Kelley-St. Clair, a reporter for the MUHS’s Tigers’ Print.... Read more

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Last Saturday, middle and high school students from all over the state of Vermont competed in the first Annual Jr Iron Chef cooking competition. The event aims to celebrate local food, showcase VT seasonal produce and promote healthy local-food dishes in schools (Burlington School Food Project and VT FEED).... Read more

It didn't make the Food Network, but the heat was on last Saturday when 12 groups of high school students showed up for Vermont's first annual Jr. Iron Chef competition at "Kitchen Stadium," a.k.a. the "Blue Ribbon" building at the Champlain Valley Expo. The budding cooks competed for a trio of prizes: "Most Creative Dish," "Most-Best Use of Local Ingredients" and "Best in Show." Earlier in the day, 23 teams of middle-school students went head to head for the same honors.... Read more

Normally, this is a slow time of year for the Winooski-based Vermont Student Assistance Corp., which loans hundreds of millions of dollars annually to parents and students looking to finance higher education.

But the latest crisis on Wall Street has the state’s largest student lender scrambling to secure $190 million to meet the demand for loans it expects to make this fall.... Read more

What role should religion play in our public schools? That’s a question Lee Sease, the Addison Central Supervisory Union Superintendent, has had to wrestle with in recent months, after a Middlebury Union High School student filed a lawsuit requesting that a religious club called Youth Alive be given the same recognition and support as other student groups. It’s been a question, as well, for the Williston Central School, which hosts an after-school Christian group for elementary and middle school students called the Good News Club.... Read more

Not all Vermont’s Girl Scouts are out selling Thin Mints. The 11- and 12-year-olds in troops 820 and 125 — in Williston and Essex Junction, respectively — wanted to know what life would be like for someone hurt by a landmine. Troop leaders Jennifer Mignano and Chandelle Trahan came up with a fitting assignment: Have them make fleece blankets for local emergency shelters with one arm strapped to their sides.... Read more

Many authors paint to give their minds a break, and visual artists often pen their thoughts. But only a few creative types — such as William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rosetti — are celebrated equally for their written and visual works. By now, Phoebe Stone of Middlebury — veteran painter, children’s-book writer-illustrator and young-adult novelist — belongs squarely in that company.... Read more

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So, you graduate from Burlington College with a degree in film production. It’s time to make tracks out to L.A., right?... Read more

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Once a year cheerleaders gather from all over the state of VT to show their spirit and shake their pompoms at the NVAC Cheerleading Competition, a multi-division contest open to youth, middle school, junior varsity and varsity groups.... Read more