![]() Send requests to Valley News p[hotographs - James M. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. “This place was packed all the time, you couldn’t ever find a parking space.” Ferrell, of South Royalton, graduated from the college last may with a degree in alternative energy. “I remember my mom went to college here,” said LaPlante, of Chelsea. Send requests to LaPlante, of Wind River Environmental, right, pumps waste from the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream plant into a tank at the methane digester tended by Dan Ferrell, left, on the campus of Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center, Vt., Saturday, April 18, 2020. Montgomery said he had planned to earn a second associate’s degree at VTC before moving on to UVM, but with the possible closure would likely just finish the one semester he has remainig in his agribusiness management program. Montgomery and Roberts are both students in the Two Plus Two program in which students earn a two-year associates degree in one of VTC’s agriculture programs, then will move on to complete a bachelors degree in animal science in two years at the University of Vermont. Send requests to Montgomery, middle, talks with Vermont Technical College Farm Manager Stephanie Nault, left, as Hannah Roberts works in the farm’s milking parlor where 80 cows are milked twice a day, Saturday, April 18, 2020. Both NVU campuses would also close under the plan. O’Connor is a graduate of Lyndon State College, which merged with Johnson State College to form Northern Vermont Unversity in 2018. Al Floyd, the store’s owner, left, and his daughter Jill O’Connor, who helps her dad run the store, have seen a drop in sales since students from the nearby college have been taking classes online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Randolph residents Tom Harty, left, and Andy Myrick, a Vermont Technical College professor, talk over morning coffee about the potential closure of the school’s Randolph Center, Vt., campus at Floyds’ General Store in Randolph Center, Vt., Saturday, April 18, 2020. ![]() ![]() Send requests to Valley News photographs - James M. “Frequently students would ask if they could pet my dog, and say they missed their dogs,” she said of those she would meet while walking at the school before the pandemic. Mitroff said she graduated with the first class in the Licensed Practical Nurse program at the college in 1997. Glenda Mitroff takes a daily walk with her dog Roxie through the campus of Vermont Technical College near her home in Randolph Center, Vt., Saturday, April 18, 2020. ![]()
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