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Rich Werner gives a presentation on tax rates during a River Valleys school board meeting at Dover School in December 2018. Werner was recently appointed to the Vermont State Board of Education by Gov. Phil Scott. File photo

Longtime school leader named to state education board

DOVER - Longtime school board chair Rich Werner has added a new board to his portfolio: the Vermont State Board of Education. Werner was appointed to the board by Gov. Phil Scott. The appointment was announced in late December. Since, Werner has had the opportunity to attend his first meeting,...

Dover prepares for Town Meeting, concerned about rising fuel costs

DOVER- Selectboard members held a Town Meeting informational meeting Tuesday evening, led by town moderator Richard Werner.
Dover’s Town Meeting is warned for Tuesday, May 17, at 10 am in Carinthia Base Lodge at Mount Snow.
Werner started the meeting with a reminder for people to...

Richard Werner, chair of River Valleys School Board and Windham Central Supervisory Union, speaking at Tuesday's press briefing

CVTSE calls for rejection of cost equity proposal

MONTPELIER- At a Statehouse press conference Tuesday, the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity called on the House Ways and Means Committee to reject sweeping changes under consideration for S.287, the Senate’s proposed education funding equity bill.
“The Senate did their homework and got...

A discussion about road signs turned contentious at Tuesday’s Dover Selectboard meeting. File photo/MDE

Board signs off on signage after resident’s road rage

DOVER- A discussion about traffic signage at Tuesday evening’s selectboard meeting turned inexplicably contentious.
Dover resident Walter Coltui met with board members to request the placement of stop signs at the end of Ellis Brook Road and both ends of Cheney Brook Loop at their...

North Branch board, voters voice concerns

DOVER- A handful of people attended a presentation and spirited discussion at a special informational meeting of the North Branch Fire District Wednesday evening.
About 20 people attended the meeting, with most participating virtually. Thanks to a technological hiccup at the beginning of...

A worker checks on the placement of concrete forms and rebar during construction at the North Branch district’s sewer plant in the summer of 2019. File photo

Committee’s actions raise transparency concerns

April 28 informational meeting to address cost increases, elections set for May DOVER- North Branch Fire District #1 has warned an informational meeting for Wednesday, April 28, from 7 to 9 pm, to discuss sewer department issues before the district’s annual meeting on Monday,...

In emergency meeting, board buys air purifiers for classrooms

WARDSBORO - At an emergency meeting held on Zoom Friday morning, the River Valleys Unified Union School District Board voted to expend $14,700 on air purifiers for each classroom in the district’s two schools, Wardsboro Elementary and the Dover School. The expenditure comes after lengthy...

Fire departments fight blaze

No one injured, water a problem
DOVER - Fire departments from nearly every surrounding town were involved in fighting a fire in Dover on Sunday night.
West Dover Fire Chief Rich Werner says the fire at 19 Barber Road was called in at 5 pm. Werner arrived at the...

River Valleys appoints new member

DOVER - The four members the River Valleys Unified Union District Board present at the board’s meeting on Monday voted unanimously to appoint Marc Bernard Schauber, of Dover, to the board.
Schauber fills a seat vacated by Kerry McDonald-Cady, who represented Dover on the board and resigned...

A firefighter battles the flames at Mount Snow’s maintenance building Tuesday evening. The building was completely destroyed in the fire. Photo: Angel Balch

Fire destroys Mount Snow building

DOVER- Firefighters from over a dozen fire departments fought a blaze at Mount Snow on Tuesday when fire broke out in the ski resort’s mountain operations building. Because it was after business hours, no one was working in the building at the time of the fire. No one was hurt in the fire, but...