Newbury sticks with Oxbow district
Modified: 12/30/2020 9:17:35 PM
NEWBURY, Vt. Voters have rejected a proposal to leave the Oxbow Unified Union School District and return Newbury Elementary School to a standalone school district.
In Australian and mail-in balloting on Tuesday, Newbury residents voted 169-140 to defeat the proposal.
Newbury had tried in 2018 to avoid joining the Oxbow district, which pairs the town with Bradford, Vt., and oversees an elementary school in each town as well as Oxbow High School and River Bend Career and Technical Center. The State Board of Education required the involuntary merger that created the district under Act 46, Vermont’s 2015 school consolidation law.