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Edith Celley stands in one of the classrooms in Pearson Hall, a Haverhill grade school Celley attended as a girl. The Haverhill Historical Society is restoring the building. Celley is president of the historical society. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

A Passion for Possibilities

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Haverhill — On the first warm, sunny weekend of spring, about 30 people sat inside Haverhill Cooperative Middle School brainstorming about the best use for Pearson Hall, the 197-year-old Federal-style building that once housed Haverhill Academy and the Grafton County Court. Among them was 85-year-old Edith Celley, who’s leading the efforts to preserve Haverhill’s oldest surviving public building. A consultant …

Jennie Ethel (Thurston) Corliss

Monday, May 6, 2013

Newbury, Vt. — Funeral services for Jennie Ethel (Thurston) Corliss, 98, who died Friday, December 28, 2012 at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Junction, Vt., will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at Hale Funeral Home, Upper Plain, Bradford, Vt. Burial will follow in the family lot in Sawyer Cemetery in Bradford. The Hale Funeral Home of Bradford, …

Voters Pass Oxbow School Budget

Friday, May 17, 2013

Bradford, Vt. — The second time’s the charm in the case of Oxbow Union High School’s annual budget, as Bradford and Newbury voters approved the revised figure last night after it was defeated earlier this year. Resident’s voted in favor, 294-158, of the newly drafted $7.2 million 2013-2014 school-year budget. “(I’m) grateful that the public supported the revised budget,” said School Board Chairwoman …

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Oxbow Budget Restrung

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ballot voting on Oxbow Union High School’s redrafted budget will be held tomorrow for Bradford and Newbury voters from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Bradford Academy auditorium and the Newbury Town Office. ■ Bradford, Vt. — School officials are crossing their fingers that voters tomorrow will …

Raking hay at Carleton's Farm on Tucker Mountain Road, mid-1800s. Photograph courtesy of Newbury Historical Society

West Newbury 250th Events Include History Talk, Music

Monday, April 29, 2013

West Newbury, Vt. — West Newbury, a village of Newbury, will hold a free day-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the town’s founding next Sunday. Events will include a history talk, garden walk and worship service. Morning …

Northeast Woodland Training Inc. offered a chain saw safety course last weekend at Oxbow High School in Bradford, Vt. Known as the Game of Logging, the two-day course covered chain saw maintenance and tree-felling skills. Sally Wilson, of Ryegate, Vt., ducks under a fence on the way to the hands-on portion of the course. (Valley News - Libby March)

Learning About Logging

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Northeast Woodland Training Inc. offered a chain saw safety course last weekend at Oxbow High School in Bradford, Vt. Known as the Game of Logging, the two-day course covered chain saw maintenance and tree-felling skills. Valley News photographs …

Orange East Supervisory Union Superintendent Don Johnson, left, and Oxbow Principal Larry Walsh at a public hearing last November. (Valley News - Ryan Dorgan)

Orange East Superintendent To Step Down

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Bradford, Vt. — The superintendent of the Orange East Supervisory Union has tendered his resignation to the School Board, effective July 1. Don Johnson said in a phone interview yesterday that he was retiring from an education career …

Oxbow High School Slims Budget Proposal

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Bradford — After narrowly rejecting the proposed 2013-2014 Oxbow Union High School budget last month, voters will consider a new slimmer version of the spending plan. On Thursday, the school board cut about $94,000 from the original proposal, creating a budget totaling just under $7.2 million. The decrease …

Emilie Perry, of Newbury, Vt., holds a collection of pansies as her boss, Bill “Frosty” Frost waters perennials at Frost Gardens in Fairlee yesterday. Perry said the pansies are edible and would make an attractive addition to her salad. (Valley News - Libby March)

Some See  A Flower, Others A Garnish

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Emilie Perry, of Newbury, Vt., holds a collection of pansies as her boss, Bill “Frosty” Frost waters perennials at Frost Gardens in Fairlee yesterday. Perry said the pansies are edible and would make an attractive addition to her …

Young Writers Share A Life Lesson

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Each week, Young Writers Project receives several hundred submissions from students in Vermont and New Hampshire in response to writing prompts and selects the best for publication here and in 21 other newspapers and on vpr.net. This week, …

Oxbow High School Budget Misses by 5 Votes

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Bradford, vt. — The $7.3 million Oxbow Union High School Budget was voted down by just five votes yesterday in all-day balloting, leaving school administrators and board members unclear about the path forward. After the results of the 170-165 vote were read aloud at last night’s school meeting, …

Oxbow’s Jasmyn Huntington hugs teammate Faith Claflin (00) after the team’s loss to Windsor in the VPA state championship in 1996. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen)

All That Jazz: VPA Hall of Fame Will Welcome Former Oxbow High Star

Friday, March 22, 2013

It amazes Jasmyn Huntington Monroe that someone in Vermont still remembers her. Given the resume she amassed over four years with the Oxbow Union High girls basketball team in the 1990s, how could anyone forget? The Vermont Principals …

Plea Deal Reached in Logging Truck Death

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

A Newbury, Vt., truck driver who failed to secure a trailer that came loose and killed an Enfield man two years ago received a suspended jail sentence yesterday and lost his commercial driving license under a plea deal finalized in Grafton Superior Court. Brewster Thurston, 53, received a …