NORWICH A change in how Vermont funds public education will lead to a big tax increase in Norwich.Act 127, approved last year, assigns greater weight to students in poverty or who are learning English as a second language.According to a study that.
In meetings Wednesday, officials with the Hanover, Norwich and Dresden school districts considered cuts to budgets that will come up for approval by the districts’ boards in the next two weeks.Those discussions revealed two communities facing very.
Forum, July 25: Don’t blame teachers for health costs
Published: 7/24/2021 10:00:10 PM
Modified: 7/24/2021 10:00:11 PM
Don’t blame teachers for health costs
I am weary over the annual battle with employees and unions when it comes to health insurance and benefits. It is even more infuriating when a longtime Dresden School Board member like Neil Odell has such a lack of insight and creativity to call out the teachers union over its demand for affordable health insurance (“Brace for Vt. NEA’s health care demand,” July 19).
I have written to him and to the board multiple times over the years suggesting that they join other health care organizations the Vermont chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, Health Care for All and the Vermont Workers’ Center Health Care is a Human Right campaign to extricate ourselves from this trap of escalating costs, but not the way that some would like. The sad truth is that health care insurance costs long ago spiraled
Norwich voters elect Layton to another term
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Modified: 3/2/2021 9:08:04 PM
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NORWICH Residents approved town and school spending plans, while also voting to give incumbent Selectboard member Mary Layton another three-year term in Australian ballot voting Tuesday.
Layton received 550 votes to defeat challenger Pamela Smith, who won 364 votes. Marcia Calloway ran unopposed for a two-year term on the board, and Neil Odell was uncontested for the School Board.
Residents voted, 699-221, to OK a $4.78 million municipal budget that officials say would result in an additional $303 in taxes for a $500,000 house.
Plans to spend $30,000 to join six Upper Valley communities that contribute to a regional energy coordinator position were approved as well.