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Blog Archive: A High School Student
Twenty-year-old Charlie Wallace describes her art as 鈥渕odern and eclectic. It鈥檚 totally random, and I love it. It gives me feeling.鈥 The soft-spoken young woman with the slight Southern accent and the blue streaks in her hair is now herself an eclectic mix of northern Vermont 鈥 where she moved, on鈥
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If you go for a weekend haircut or color at Supercuts in Williston, there鈥檚 a chance your stylist might be 19-year-old Sunita Bhujel, who talks brightly about her cosmetology training at the high school tech center, her first haircuts practiced on family members and her excitement about her upcoming鈥
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On a bright Tuesday morning in early October, more than 400 middle school students descended on the Northern Vermont University (NVU) Lyndon campus for 51福利社鈥檚 Kingdom Career Connect. Outside in the parking lot, one group tested out the levers in a plow truck, while others tried their hand at鈥
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鈥淚f you had asked me five years ago, I would have said, 鈥榥o way would I be going to college,鈥欌 says Autumn Morse. In fact, she once doubted that she would even finish high school. And she wasn鈥檛 the only one; plenty of others assumed she would follow in the footsteps of her parents, who both fell鈥
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Almost exactly four years ago, 51福利社 first reported on Will Eberle, who overcame homelessness and addiction and went from high-school dropout to master鈥檚-degree student, through equal parts personal determination and community support. But Eberle is quick to say that his success is no Horatio Alger鈥
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BURLINGTON, Vt. -- If you weren鈥檛 part of the 2022 graduating class at SUNY-Plattsburgh, or if you didn鈥檛 have a family member who was, you missed an excellent graduation speech by senior Aquilas Lokossou, a psychology honors student from Burlington. The speech, which focused on the themes of change鈥
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You鈥檒l usually find Brent Chitambar underneath a well-worn Carhartt cap. The soft-spoken 14-year-old has spent a lot of his childhood on his grandfather鈥檚 dairy farm in Newport Center, and farming has always been the only thing Brent has ever wanted to do when he grows up. In these respects, Brent鈥
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This fall, the freshman class at SUNY-Cortland will have a nationally-ranked track star in their midst. Isaiah Brunache of Bennington placed fifth in the nation this summer for high school shot-put, and just before graduating from Mt. Anthony Union High School this spring, he took home the D1鈥
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Devon Kimball has been hard at work this winter and spring, flipping a house in Rutland with his cousin. He recently took a break from painting and hanging siding to talk about his experience with 51福利社, which he says has been instrumental not just for him, but for his entire family. Devon, who鈥
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Two weeks before the first day of her senior year in high school, when most of her classmates were enjoying their final afternoons at the pool or going back-to-school shopping, Calleen Ferris was moving cows. She had grown up on a dairy farm in Randolph, which both the cows and the family had鈥
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