Friday, May 17, 2013
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor of Hartford talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The fifth-graders at Reading, Vt., Elementary School, all six of them, may be small in number. Yet in developing an eco-friendly solution to removing the poison ivy at their school, they’ve embodied the famous Margaret Mead quote that …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
This week, Young Writers Project announces the six winners of the Farm Project writing challenge. Congratulations to David Amouretti, Grade 5, Thomas Fleming School, Essex Junction; Callista Bushee, Grade 8, Home School, East Wallingford; Kelsey Eddy, Grade 9, …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
South Royalton — Pushing back against higher taxes, a gymnasium packed with roughly 350 residents voted last night to cut the school budget for the 2014 school year, overturning the initial budget vote from the March Town Meeting. The amended $6.0 million budget, which was proposed by resident …
Monday, May 13, 2013
Lebanon — The School Board last week revisited the votes members took last month on controversial course changes for Lebanon High School so that the proposals could be reconsidered later this year. In April, a narrowly divided board vote to “table” contentious proposals to mix students of differing …
Monday, May 13, 2013
West Lebanon — Lebanon School District has big plans for the old school building on Seminary Hill, even though it’s still not clear if the district really owns it. The now-defunct Tilden Female Seminary was the last legal …
Sunday, May 12, 2013
New London — It is the time of the year when college graduates are often given that not-so-subtle reminder from their elders that they are about to enter the “real world.” From Cory Schofield’s perspective, he and his …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
South Royalton — Voters Monday night could decide whether to cut the 2013-14 school budget after a group of frustrated residents petitioned for a reconsideration vote, hoping to ratchet back spending increases that were approved in March. The $6.2 million spending plan, which represents a 2.3 percent increase …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Hanover — Geoffrey Canada, the president of an educational nonprofit in New York City, will deliver Dartmouth College’s commencement address next month. Canada is the president and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc., which provides educational opportunities to underprivileged children living in Harlem. The nonprofit follows children from …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Lebanon — Budget cuts in Washington have resulted in early closures this year for federally-funded preschool programs serving low-income children and families throughout Vermont and New Hampshire, including a Head Start classroom housed in the former School Street …
By Don's Early Light
