By Stephen Seitz CHESTER—Police in Chester and Ludlow are investigating what may be a series of sexual assaults in those towns, allegedly by a high school student at Green Mountain Union High School. Asked about this, Ludlow police chief Jeffrey […]
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Local News
Unification vote fails for seven towns
Royalton voted “no”; a “yes” vote was necessary for school board merger to pass By Evan Johnson School district officials and community members are looking for a way forward after a plan to unify seven towns into three “side-by-side” districts […]
Local News
Two towns reject school merger
By Stephen Seitz BARNARD—Act 46 is getting off to a creaky start, at least for some. The law, which went into effect in 2015, has the goal of merging Vermont’s school districts in the hope of providing better education, as […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment
Champlain Philharmonic orchestra performs spring concert in two towns
Saturday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.—POULTNEY, MIDDLEBURY—The Champlain Philharmonic will return to Ackley Hall at Green Mountain College in Poultney Saturday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. and Town Hall Theater in Middlebury Sunday, March 26, 4 p.m. to present its spring concert […]
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Four Upper Valley towns vote against NewVistas development
By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger Four towns in the Upper Valley of Vermont are opposing a Utah man’s plan to build a giant development that could eventually hold 1 million people right in their backyards. Residents voted Tuesday, March 8, by Australian […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment
Towns open drop-off locations for global children’s Christmas charity
Nov. 14-21—RUTLAND—Several locations in the southern part of Vermont will serve as collection sites this year for the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child—the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind. During national collection week, Nov. 14-21, residents in Addison, […]
Op - Ed, Opinion
Rutland’s strife over refugee status is every town’s concern
By Angelo S. Lynn In Rutland, the struggles that town and city have gone through in its reckoning to become a refugee resettlement site provide important lessons other Vermont communities seeking similar refugee status should consider. For starters, Vermont residents […]
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Act 46 by the numbers: Merger votes are in
By Tiffany Danitz Pache, VTDigger.org An overwhelming majority of towns that have voted so far have chosen to unite with neighboring towns to create larger governance structures for their schools. Districts around the state are studying whether to merge with […]