An adult day program in Middlebury is expanding its services to families in Chittenden and Rutland counties, with help from a state grant.

Project Independence provides daytime medical and social support to more than 150 older adults a year, while offering family caregivers short-term relief to rest or tend to other needs.

Administrators are using a $233,000 Mobility and Transportation Innovations Grant from the Vermont Agency of Transportation to expand the program's reach, said Kristin Bolton, executive director of Elderly Services , which operates Project Independence.

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According to Bolton, $200,000 of the VTrans grant has been used to purchase two new, electric-powered, fully accessible vans that can each hold up to eight passengers. The rest of the

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