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SOUTH STRAFFORD — The practice of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is on hold at The Newton School while teachers, staff and community members discuss a more inclusive alternative that might better reflect the school’s values. Newton’s new principal,...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WOODSTOCK — More than 300 residents from towns in the Mountain Views Supervisory Union have signed a petition urging state legislators to restore state aid for school construction.The petition continues to circulate on local Listservs and distributed...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
SHARON — Residents have reignited the effort to permit retail cannabis sales in town with a petition for another vote on the issue.Last week, voters rejected — by just two votes — a ballot measure that would have allowed the sale of recreational...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HARTFORD — More than a dozen of the town’s clerical workers are seeking a vote on whether to join a union.The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 93 has submitted a petition to the state Labor Relations Board...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
LEBANON — Podcast fans looking for a show that tackles topics from local middle school sports to movie recommendations and the most useful superpowers have a new offering this fall thanks to the Lebanon Middle School’s fledgling podcasting club. Each...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
SHARON — A proposal to convert a former diner into a marijuana dispensary has been snuffed out by voters.Residents took to the polls Tuesday and narrowly rejected an option to allow retail cannabis in town by a vote of 137 to 135.The result puts a...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HARTFORD — A section of Gates Street might be reopened to vehicle traffic after years of closure should voters approve a $4 million highway improvement bond to stabilize retaining walls in the area.The project, which involves parts of Fairview Terrace...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WINDSOR — A dozen students from the Windsor and West Windsor elementary schools recently played a game of tag, but with a twist.The player who was “it” –and had to search for and tag the others — was blindfolded, dependent on the guidance of a helper...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HANOVER — Political strategists Donna Brazile and Kellyanne Conway discussed the 2024 election and the importance of fostering conversations across the political divide this week in the first in a series of debates hosted by the Dartmouth Political...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HARTFORD — The School Board this week acknowledged a “procedural glitch” in the non-public session of a June meeting, but denied that it violated the Vermont Open Meeting Law when it negotiated and signed a severance agreement with the district’s...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WILDER — Dothan Brook School’s kindergarten and first-grade classrooms are back in operation this week after a month-long process to clean up mold discovered in parts of the building.Meanwhile, the district is still sorting out how to pay for the cost...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
SHARON — Voters will take to the polls on Oct. 15 to decide whether to allow retail cannabis establishments in town, less than two weeks before the state stops issuing new retail licenses.In August, Sharon received a petition from Sean Trombly, a...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the first time since the spring of 1975, parking meters are set to cast shadows over downtown streets after the Hartford Selectboard voted to bring them back, albeit in a more modern form.In a unanimous vote Tuesday night,...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s graduate student union is the subject of a religious discrimination complaint filed by a graduate student and teaching assistant opposed to the union’s support for pro-Palestinian causes.Benjamin Logsdon, a student in...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HARTFORD — Beginning Monday, Oct. 14, the VA Cutoff Road bridge over the White River will close for two weeks while crews connect two sections of the span. Traffic will be detoured to the Route 4/Route 5 bridge during the closure.The newly constructed...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
HARTFORD — The School Board is the subject of an allegation that it violated Vermont’s Open Meeting Law when it negotiated and formalized a severance agreement with then-Superintendent Tom DeBalsi outside of public view. DeBalsi, who left his position...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
RANDOLPH — A report presented last week to the Green Mountain Care Board makes sweeping recommendations for restructuring Vermont’s health care systems and some communities and hospital leaders fear the loss of emergency rooms and inpatient beds, and...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WILDER — Participants in a “listening session” held by the town at the Wilder Club and Library earlier this month expressed concerns about Hartford officials’ transparency and accountability, difficulty navigating the town website and a lack of...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Last May, 11 Hartford middle schoolers were so frustrated with disruptions to their classes caused by misbehaving students that they staged a walkout and demanded to meet with the superintendent.“It was our last cry for help” to...
By CHRISTINA DOLAN
LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has announced a collaboration with a Maine-based mountain guide service to offer the first Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM) program east of the Rocky Mountains.The program is designed to train...
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