WOODBURY – The town’s first Saturday town meeting on March 2 was well attended by approximately 120 people. The 2023 town meeting considered the question, “Shall Woodbury hold its future annual Town Meetings on the Saturday preceding the first Tuesday in March?” Minutes of that meeting record, “John Reid states[Read More…]
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Officer Seats Shuffle to Meet Needs, Budgets Working on Moving Targets
STANNARD — Driving along the unsuspecting and muddy Stannard Mountain Road on Tuesday morning would lead travelers to a sparse-appearing town center. This transformed for a few hours into a corridor lined with cars and a full parking lot near the town hall as 25 voters gathered for town business.[Read More…]
Wolcott Town School District Meeting
School Budget Cut, Last Select Board Floor Vote
CRAFTSBURY — Just shy of 200 Craftsbury residents gathered at 9 a.m., March 5, in Craftsbury Academy’s World War II Memorial Gymnasium, a substantially higher number than in recent years. After electing Jeannine Young as moderator, the town school district kicked things off. Craftsbury School Board Chair Kasey Allen noted[Read More…]
Sunday Crowd Debates Library Budget
MARSHFIELD – Marshfield held an open town meeting on Sunday afternoon. The turnout was higher than last year (150 vs. 120 last year). Richard Baker did not run for another term on the select board and Christopher Whalen was elected for the three-year term. Since it was the first time[Read More…]
Town Clerk, Treasurer Terms Extended
WALDEN – The annual meeting of the Town of Walden was called to order at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Moderator Roger Fox reported it to be the 229th in-person town meeting in Walden. To the 65 or so attendees, he suggested participation in the “art of citizenship” and noted town[Read More…]
Historical Society Snowmobile Talk
Broadband Work
Pollinator Protection Efforts May Soon Bear Fruit
by Paul Fixx HARDWICK – As Greensboro gets ready to consider a Town Meeting Day article 14, proposed by Jane Hoffman, declaring itself a “pollinator-friendly” community and the Vermont Legislature considers H.706, a bill banning neonicotinoid use in Vermont, local activist Emily Lanxner and Rep. Chip Troiano may be seeing[Read More…]
Education Spending Ticks Down
Montpelier – The latest data from the Vermont Agency of Education shows a small decrease in projected education spending and affirms previously anecdotal evidence on the major factors causing a projected increase in education property taxes. Health care costs, construction, special education, disappearing federal money and increased salaries are all[Read More…]
15th Leap Day Birthday Celebrated by 60-year-old Statehouse Worker
by Shaun Robinson, VTDigger PLAINFIELD – Nate Corson said his leap day birthday celebrations were dampened this year because he is no longer able to afford to stay at his home in Plainfield, and he might leave the state. I had it on good intelligence this morning — this chilly, windy,[Read More…]