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Wilmington’s new sidewalk nears completion amid traffic backups

With two new crosswalks and traffic-calming grass buffers, project aims to create a more pedestrian-friendly stretch of Route 9 in Village
WILMINGTON—It has taken eight years and will cost about $1.1 million, but Wilmington’s new East Main Street sidewalk and associated...

Twin Valley Middle High School damaged by violent storm

WHITINGHAM—The first that Cheryl Boyd knew of the brief, vicious storm was a strange noise in a deserted hallway at Twin Valley Middle High School last Thursday.
Boyd, a janitor at the school, was cleaning some lockers in the middle school section when she heard a strange roaring noise in...

Wilmington's Memorial Hall File Photo

Wilmington Selectboard approves expansion funds for Memorial Hall Friends group

WILMINGTON—Selectboard members unanimously approved a grant of $70,000 to the Friends of Memorial Hall from a fund created by the 1% local option tax that supports economic development at their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
The friends group of the historic Wilmington property plans to...

Residents will vote on the future of the Readsboro Central School building.

Will former school become a community center?

Readsboro will vote on June 30; informational meeting on June 29
READSBORO—The town is poised to take over the building occupied by the Readsboro Central School for the last 64 years before its permanent closure this summer.
On Tuesday, June 30, voters will be...

‘Perfection is a myth,’ Twin Valley grads hear

Valedictorian urges students to focus instead on making the best of their talents
WHITINGHAM—Graduates from Twin Valley Middle High School were urged to drop any pursuit of perfection, and to instead learn from their mistakes in their future careers at college or in the...

Photo by Jon Hurdle Readsboro Central School’s five graduating sixth graders helped Principal Robyn Oyer let off gold-confetti party poppers after her farewell speech at the school’s final concert and moving-up ceremony.

Readsboro principal pays tribute to ‘the final students to walk these hallways’

READSBORO—Robyn Oyer told herself she wasn’t going to cry during her final speech before the permanent closure of Readsboro Central School, and she didn’t, but she said afterward that she felt like it.
Oyer, principal of the school for the last five years, delivered her farewell speech at...

VT Secretary of State looks for ways of smoothing official permitting for businesses

WILMINGTON—Vermont’s Secretary of State visited two Wilmington businesses last Thursday on a “listening tour” of Windham County companies to ask them whether her office and other state agencies could do more to help.
Sarah Copeland-Hanzas stopped at Mill & Whistle, a recently opened...

Ryan McLaren Photo by Jon Hurdle

McLaren says ski accident helped him decide to run for Lt. Governor

WILMINGTON- Ryan McLaren sat at the counter of the Cup and Saucer diner just north of Wilmington village, and said his current run for lieutenant governor may well have been inspired by the ski accident that left him a paraplegic.
The catastrophic crash at Vermont’s Mad River Glen in 2017...

Town plan should address short-term rentals, planners say

WILMINGTON- The town plan may soon have new language that would urge Wilmington’s home owners not to rent to more people than their properties’ septic systems are permitted for.
The Wilmington Planning Commission is updating the existing town plan, a wide-ranging 2018 document that...

School districts to pursue voluntary mergers under education bill

WHITINGHAM- While Vermont won’t force the consolidation of school districts in response to falling student numbers, it requires them to come up with their own merger plans that must be submitted to the state by September 2027, the board of Windham Southwest Supervisory Union heard last Wednesday...