Mary Lacy, daughter of House Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, is recovering from a broken vertebra in her neck, Democratic House Leader Carolyn Partridge told the full House Tuesday morning. Partridge reported on Lacy's condition as she explained to the members why she was running the session instead of Symington. Many legislators had been informed of the accident over the weekend.

Mary, a page at the Statehouse in 2005 and now a sophomore at Mt. Mansfield Union High School, apparently fell off a snowbank onto her neck on Friday afternoon, causing the serious injury. She had surgery at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Partridge reported. "Her fingers and toes are wiggling and have feeling."

Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie provided a poster of a Vermont hiking scene that legislators were signing with their get-well wishes.

-- Nancy Remsen