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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — While many students across the Upper Valley have returned to their classrooms in recent days, pupils of the Woodstock Nursery School are still waiting for their school’s doors to reopen.On hot days like the Upper Valley has had this week,...

CLAREMONT — The Claremont School Board is holding an informational meeting about draft public school standards on Thursday.The meeting is scheduled to take place at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Stevens High School, 175 Broad Street.The 306 Minimum...

SOUTH ROYALTON — Vermont Law and Graduate School is scheduled to host three free clinics this month to help people affected by this summer’s flooding to apply for assistance.The first is scheduled to take place in South Royalton on Wednesday from 11...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — At Stevens High School, the administration is instituting a complete ban on cell phones during the school day for the upcoming academic year.In Newport, cell phones will be banned during the school day at the middle school and the policy...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — To adapt to a teacher shortage this year, Bluff Elementary School will have two multi-grade classes and larger class sizes than usual.The Claremont school has been unable to fill third- and fifth-grade teacher positions since it began...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

SOUTH STRAFFORD — Community members have come out in support of a former art teacher who lost her job at The Newton School, but school administrators, who have been criticized for a lack of transparency in the matter, say she cannot be reinstated...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s new president has announced a series of leadership changes, including the creation of the position of chief health and wellness officer, and a September event focused on mental health.The college has launched a national...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The months-long effort to find a parcel for recreation to replace land next to the high school where the school district’s new agricultural center will be built appears to be over.On Monday, the Selectboard approved a Memorandum of...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — The school district is working to have as many families as possible complete the application for free and reduced-price meals because each student who qualifies can mean more in state financial aid to the district.SAU 6 Business...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — For Amy Allen, taking the reins of the Lebanon School District is a homecoming of sorts.A 1991 graduate of Mascoma Valley Regional High School, Allen has been staying with her mom in Enfield when she needs to be in the Upper Valley....

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WEST LEBANON — Middle and high school students in the Lebanon School District are expected to receive their grades for the academic year that ended in June next week. The delayed release comes after some of the district’s key systems were taken...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

LEBANON — The city will host a public forum on Thursday to discuss a proposal for a city-owned child care center that would provide infant and early childhood education services for up to 200 children.City officials have said construction will be...

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont officials fast-tracked the approvals of two new private schools last week, just days before a statewide moratorium on authorizing new schools took effect.The last-minute decisions will allow the two schools — the Expeditionary School at Black...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The Lebanon School District was hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month, according to outgoing Superintendent Joanne Roberts.After learning of the June 15 attack, the district engaged “outside cybersecurity experts” to help secure its...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Newport School District will keep its bus garage, but when it can obtain a building permit for a new natural science center at the Sugar River Valley Technical Center remains uncertain.Those were the two main issues discussed at a...

CANAAN — A longtime Mascoma Valley Regional School District employee has been named the interim principal of Canaan Elementary School.April Guinness, who is currently the associate principal and athletic director at Indian River School, will start her...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Joanne Roberts took the reins of the Lebanon School District at first on an interim basis in August 2014 amid a leadership vacuum.She took over one month after the departure of Gail Paludi, who had been Lebanon’s superintendent for four...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — After spending much of their high school experience navigating the trials and tribulations of hybrid learning, mask-wearing and social distancing, members of the Hartford Class of 2023 were grateful to end their final year on a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SOUTH ROYALTON — Saturday’s morning rain may not have seemed like the happiest time in which to hold an outdoor high school graduation ceremony, but the four-post tent erected on the South Royalton green to keep the 42 graduating seniors of White...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

WEST CANAAN — Resilience, strength and perseverance were the main themes of Mascoma Valley Regional High School’s graduation ceremony Friday night in the school’s auditorium.The 73 members of the Class of 2023 entered high school in fall 2019 and in...