Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:
Whitingham residents are presented with a great opportunity to bring fresh ideas, professional insight, and renewed energy to the Twin Valley Unified Union District School Board. Three candidates on the ballot deserve your vote. 
Christy Betit is a Whitingham native...
To the Editor,
Note: This letter was sent to legislative leaders,  chairs of the House and Senate education committees, and  the directors of  Vermont’s education professional organizations.
On Monday, February 10, the Windham Central Super Board met to discuss the recent “Pupil...
To the Editor,  
I am running for selectboard in Whitingham and want people to know why. 
I have decided to run now because I feel this upcoming year has a lot of the issues that I have been working on for many years.    
First is that for the past 14 years I have served on...
To the Editor,
I have a few questions at this time for the Southern Valley Unified Union School District elected officers and the WSSU management team concerning the 2020 annual report and its contents.
1) What part of Act 46 legislation (with intent of lowering education costs) do...
To the Editor,
My husband Dave and I volunteer to run the senior lunches twice a week at the Whitingham  Municipal Center, in Jacksonville, at noon on Tuesday and Thursday, and we are worried that there are not enough people attending. 
Three years ago the state was going to drop...
To the Editor, 
 I’m writing to thank Carolyn and Gordon Lucas of River Valley Market for the wonderful food provided for my home Super Bowl experience.   
Along with Lyons Den Productions, Silver Fork Restaurant, and Denis and Nancy Noel,  the Lucases gave generously to The Jingle...
To the Editor,
For more than 20 years, Vermont’s smaller towns have been overtaxed and their schools underfunded, according to the Pupil Weighting Factors Report, a $300,000 study of current school funding legislation recently issued by the secretary of education. 
Hurry, and you...
To the Editor,
Republicans have long pushed the idea that lots of people on Social Security Disability are “fakers and takers” who don’t deserve those benefits.  That push intensified when the number of Social Security recipients increased significantly after the financial crash in 2008,...
To the Editor,
I am writing to thank Wilmington residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.
Because of the generosity of donors in Wilmington and across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s...
To the Editor,
A  copy of this letter was sent to chairman Philip Baruth and the Senate Committee on Education.
I am a mother of students currently in the Vermont school system, I was educated in Vermont and I have served six years as chair of the Searsburg School District. I am...

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