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Female athletes: No white shorts, no worries
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them concerned for their own operations. According to Andrew Dickerson, the town’s fire chief, the accident occurred when the driver
For anyone with a period, the anxiety is familiar: the worry that standing up from a seat or bending over to pick something up might reveal a red stain, that a tampon or pad might leak and everyone else will notice. For girls playing for their middle school or high school sports teams, a new initiative from the Vermont Principals Association contends, that worry adds to the reasons why one in three girls quit sports by the time they’re 14 years old. For Lauren Young, the VPA’s executive director of activities and athletics, there’s one obvious solution: no more white shorts. On the first Thursday of every month, Young said, the VPA hosts a “Girls and Equity” conversation. The organization invites coaches and athletic directors, primarily women, to talk through the issues that girls might be facing when
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Farmers ask for slower speeds on Dorset Street BRIANA BRADY STAFF WRITER
The owners of Shelburne’s last family dairy farm have a request for the town: get cars to slow down going past their farm. “We cross our cows morn-
ing and night during the summer. Can we have tractor signs —slow moving? Can we have reduced speed? Something, you know,” Sylvia Maille implored the selectboard at its meeting July 28. “My husband and my son’s lives are in jeopardy with the speed that is
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allowed to go in front of our farm.” Maille and her son Benjamin were moved to attend the meeting, she said, after an accident involving the town’s mowing tractor at the intersection of Bishop Road and Dorset Street — just down the street from their farm — made
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