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By PATRICK ADRIAN

WINDSOR — A growing fruit preserves manufacturer in Artisans Park is close to financing a $2.7 million expansion of their building to enable the company to keep pace with increasing customer demand.Blake Hill Preserves, which makes specialty jams,...

WINDSOR — Voters in the two-town Mount Ascutney School District approved a $14.8 million operating budget at the polls on Tuesday.The budget, which Windsor and West Windsor voters approved 305-214, is up from last year’s $13.7 million, but below...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

STRAFFORD — The Newton School is searching for a new principal following Tracy Thompson’s February announcement that she will not return after this school year ends in June.But Strafford’s loss is Windsor’s gain. Thompson has been hired as the Windsor...

Contested races: Elections for school officers for the two-town district were held in early March.Budget and spending articles: The proposed operating budget is $14.8 million, which is up from last year’s $13.7 million budget. The board originally...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WINDSOR — Theresa Taylor shuffled a couple dozen tickets containing the names of older adults behind the counter at the Windsor Diner, which she has owned for around 15 years.Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Taylor was used to seeing groups of seniors...

WINDSOR — Megan Reed beat out David Taft for the remaining two-years on a seat representing Windsor on the two-town Mount Ascutney School District Board.Reed earned 450 votes to Taft’s 397.With 144 votes, Amy McMullen was elected as a write-in...

WEST WINDSOR — In paper ballot votes from Tuesday’s floor meeting, West Windsor voters opted to allow the Selectboard to appoint a town clerk and town treasurer.The vote on the town clerk article was approved 64 to 47, while the vote on town treasurer...

WINDSOR — Incumbents Tera Howard and Ryan Palmer were reelected to the Selectboard by Australian ballot Tuesday. Howard defeated challenger Eric Saltonstall for a two-year term on the board, 442 to 107, and Palmer won an uncontested race for a...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WINDSOR — Staffing shortages will leave Windsor and White River Junction without Head Start preschools next year.Southeastern Vermont Community Action, or SEVCA, which administers Windsor County’s Head Start preschool programs, announced the closures...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTLAND — Each board within the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union is playing its part in a last-minute effort to reduce demands on the state education fund in what has become a zero-sum game of educational funding this year.School budget votes for...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WINDSOR — Famous figures such as Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver are often the faces of Black History celebrations. But in a talk this week in recognition of Black History Month, Joe Major wants to focus on people his audience probably...

Contested races: Megan Reed and David Taft are vying for the remaining two-years on a seat representing Windsor on the two-town board. Elizabeth Burrows is unopposed for a three-year West Windsor seat. No one filed for a three-year seat representing...

Articles of note: Voters will be asked whether to authorize the Selectboard to appoint a town clerk and town treasurer, and to eliminate the position of town lister and appoint a professional assessor.Contested races: Officers will be elected from the...

Article of note: One article asks voters for $97,000 to support the Windsor Public Library. Another asks for $20,000 for the Windsor Cemetery Association.Contested races: Tera Howard and Eric Saltonstall are vying for a two-year seat on the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WINDSOR — Like most parents, Josh Compton wants to keep his children safe.To do so, however, Compton, who lives in Windsor with his wife, Laura, and their two sons, Henry, 10, and Truman, 8, must factor in Truman’s autism.“It just so happens that one...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WINDSOR — The Mount Ascutney School District board voted unanimously Monday night to rescind the $15.5 million budget members had approved in January and bring a revised version to voters at a later date.Board members made the decision in response to...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WOODSTOCK — Three longtime Upper Valley performers are teaming up to bring more play into the lives of the region’s older adults.Friends for decades, Marv Klassen-Landis, Ham Gillett and Michael Zerphy have been been mainstays in the region’s creative...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WINDSOR — Windsor residents now have access to shopping in Claremont via public transit twice a month.MOOVer, a micro public transportation service operated by Southeast Vermont Transit, has added a route that will connect Windsor-area residents to...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Southeastern Vermont Community Action, known as SEVCA, is looking for volunteers to help people prepare their taxes.SEVCA’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program serves low and moderate income earners, people with disabilities...