Twin Valley

Town opts out of Twin Valley user fee payment

WILMINGTON- The town will not send a $200,000 user fee to Twin Valley School District this year, citing concerns the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may have on future town revenues.
Wilmington Finance Officer Christine Richter said that, for now, the town is continuing to receive tax...

House bill will protect school budgets

DEERFIELD VALLEY- School budgets won’t have to be revoted, according to Rep. John Gannon, and there won’t be a 22-cent increase in the statewide education tax rate, if the House property tax yield bill is passed.
Gannon met with Twin Valley School Board members at their regular...

State warns of gloomy funding future for schools

DEERFIELD VALLEY- Twin Valley School Board members discussed a gloomy education funding outlook and authorized several priority building maintenance projects.
Windham Southwest Supervisory Union Superintendent Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll relayed key points from a statewide discussion that...

School district looks to end year in the black

DEERFIELD VALLEY- Twin Valley School Board members hired an assistant principal for Twin Valley Middle High School at their regular meeting held by teleconference Tuesday evening.
Following a brief executive session with the candidate, board members unanimously approved superintendent...

Board meets remotely, reconsiders vice principal

WILMINGTON- Twin Valley School Board members held their regular meeting by public conference call this week, their first under the state of emergency for COVID-10 declared by Gov. Phil Scott.
Superintendent Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll said the supervisory union and the district have been...

Area schools prepare closure plans

This story was updated with addtional information on Thursday, March 19 DEERFIELD VALLEY- Schools and child care and preschool facilities have closed following orders issued by Gov. Phil Scott this week.
Windham Southwest Supervisory Union schools, including Twin Valley, Southern...

School officials rally in Montpelier to call for action on funding

Press conference highlights problems faced by schools around the state MONTPELIER- School officials from across the state joined legislators at a press conference Wednesday afternoon to demand the Legislature take action to implement recommendations in the Agency of Education’s...

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...

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...

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...