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Twin Valley board sees big change, no clerk elected

WHITINGHAM- Twin Valley Unified Union School District’s budget passed by a wide margin in voting Tuesday, and Whitingham will send an all new-slate of school directors to the Twin Valley School Board.
In Whitingham, all three school board seats were up for election this year. Christy...

Woman returns to old-school press technique in a digital age

Local creates custom stationery and letterpress designs in former dairy barn WILMINGTON - On a cloudy Wednesday morning, the big wooden door of the old dairy barn at 699 Route 100 is closed tight. A note on the door says to push — hard — and come to the back.
A push of...

Voters pull trigger on gun support

WHITINGHAM- Voters at Town Meeting approved 37 articles and a pair of nonbinding resolutions, including a motion to declare the town’s support for the Vermont Constitution’s right to bear arms. But voters stopped short of declaring the town a “gun sanctuary” due to confusion over the wording of a...

Climate change, legislative plans hot topics at Readsboro meeting

READSBORO- Voters at Monday evening’s Town Meeting said “Aye” to nearly all of the articles on this year’s warning.
Under Article 1 “to hear the report of the town officers,” the selectboard updated voters on a number of projects and issues they’ve worked on over the last year.
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Emerson Cohen led the Boy Scout color guard before the start of Town Meeting in Dover. Lauren Harkawik

Voters give thumbs up to town clerk, thumbs down to theater amendment

DOVER - Town Meeting lasted well into the afternoon in Dover, where points that spurred the most discussion included a merit-based raise for town clerk Andy McLean, an attempted last-minute appropriation for MHCA Dover Cinema, and the budget for the Dover Free Library.
McLean told voters...

Selectboard members discuss an item at Searsburg’s Town Meeting Monday evening. LH

Searsburg voters make short work of meeting

SEARSBURG - At Town Meeting on Monday night, around a dozen voters passed school and municipal articles in approximately three minutes combined, with a 10-minute break in between. There was no discussion about any of the articles. The meeting, which lasted about an hour, also included a...

Members of the Halifax Fire Department were recognized for their efforts. Linda Donaghue

Halifax consensus, commendations

HALIFAX- A remarkably upbeat Town Meeting greeted voters and other participants and resulted in passage of all 27 articles as written with the exception of one amendment, due to a printing error.
Rep. John Gannon took the stage prior to the official opening of the meeting to discuss...

Concerns raised about TV school budget, education

WILMINGTON- Whitingham and Wilmington residents gathered under the leaking ceiling in the Twin Valley Elementary School cafetorium Tuesday evening for Twin Valley School District’s budget information and annual meeting.
At a regular board meeting held earlier in the evening, board members...

Vote or appoint? Voters to decide

WILMINGTON- Voters at Wilmington’s Town Meeting will decide whether to cede their power to elect the town clerk and town treasurer to the selectboard.
Article 4 of the Town Meeting warrant asks voters to “authorize the selectboard to appoint a town clerk,” and Article 5 asks the same...

A recently-released study shows that many local school districts, including Twin Valley, have been underfunded. File photo

Weighting inequities have crushed local taxpayers

Proposed weighting figures updated with 2020 data MONTPELIER- The Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office has released an updated analysis of the effect of proposed changes to the state’s equalized pupil weighting system. For school districts in the Deerfield Valley, the outlook...