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Vermont Business Magazine The Snelling Center for Government has announced the graduates of the Vermont School Leadership Project Class of 2020:
Stacy Anderson, Director of Special Services, Barre Unified Union School District
Brandy Brown, Co-Principal, Milton Middle School
Michael Clark, Superintendent, Grand Isle Supervisory Union
Ryan Dudley, 6th Grade Math/Science Teacher, Albert D Lawton Intermediate School
Jeff Evans, Director of Learning and Innovation, Champlain Valley School District
Heather Freeman, Director of Student Services, Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union
Ashley Hanlon, Director, Addison Wayfinder Experience
Jennifer Hulse, Director of Student Support Services, Lamoille North Supervisory Union
Alison Kidder, Director of Student Services, Orange East Supervisory Union
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.
Published: 12/17/2020 10:00:24 PM
Modified: 12/17/2020 10:00:13 PM
Workers going ‘nose commando’ help no one
Thanks to Peter J. Murdza Jr., for his letter about Hanover postal workers who do not follow pandemic protocols (“Postal workers in Hanover without masks a concern,” Dec. 15).
Though I have never previously had a problem with the Hanover Post Office, when I went in to mail two packages recently, the clerk (who did not wear a name badge) was wearing a face mask covering only his mouth. I did not step all the way up to the counter and asked him to please adjust his mask so it covered his nose properly. He declined to do so.
COVID-19: Orange East Supervisory Union goes remote after holiday break
Staff Reports
Modified: 12/17/2020 9:34:43 PM
BRADFORD, Vt. The Orange East Supervisory Union is slated to pivot to remote learning Jan. 4-8 to allow for quarantine after the December holidays, according to the superintendent.
Superintendent Emilie B. Knisley said in a Wednesday message posted to Listservs that she made the decision after surveying more than 1,100 members of the OESU community, which includes schools in the Vermont towns of Bradford, Newbury, Thetford and East Corinth.
Roughly 40% of those surveyed indicated that they plan to travel or participate in multi-household gatherings that require quarantine, she said. Knisley also considered similar decisions by surrounding school districts to move to remote learning following the December vacation, which affect OESU operations, she said.