Each week, VPR asks local newsrooms about their top stories. This week,reporter Ben Kaufmann discusses how Franklin County communities are adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Normally, Kaufmann is the Courier's sports writer. But since sports and related activities are on hold to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in our region, he now writes as a general assignment reporter. He also works at the St. Albans City shelter .
Kaufmann shared his experience at the emergency shelter, and how he has pivoted away from sports writing to pen a piece on the local maple industry following the cancelation of the in St. Albans.
