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Essex's Melba Masse, a pioneer in Vermont high school sports, dies at 92
Melba Masse, a hall of fame coach and longtime administrator at Essex High School who was a central figure in establishing championship tournaments for girls sports in Vermont several years before Title IX went into effect and later became known as the "Queen of Master Schedules" for her dogged, behind-the-scenes work creating season-by-season schedules died on Sunday, Sept. 1. She was 92. "It’s going to leave a chasm, not a void, because she had her hands involved...
Burlington events canceled, disrupted by arrival of Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Mosquitos are definitely a bane of summer life in Vermont, but rarely like this. Recent discoveries of the potentially fatal mosquito-borne illness Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) have prompted the cancelation or rescheduling of several events in Burlington. The center of the region’s public-gathering activities, Vermont’s largest city is one of the areas of highest risk for EEE, according to the Vermont Department of Health. ...
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