WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Hartford will hold a special election in August to fill vacancies on the Selectboard after two members resigned last month. The election will be held on Aug. 10 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., during which residents can vote on.
With 5 resignations in the past year, Hartford Selectboard members keep choosing the exit
Juila Dalphin (Courtesy CATV)
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Hartford officials are planning a special election to fill two Selectboard seats left open after board members Julia Dalphin and Rachel Edens stepped down this month.
They are the fourth and fifth members to resign from the seven-member board in less than a year.
In her resignation letter submitted Thursday, Dalphin said she had accepted a new job as a chief quality officer for a home health agency in Barre, Vt., in February, shortly before she was elected to the board in Town Meeting voting. She wrote that she’d hoped to juggle work and board duties but said her busy schedule has forced her to miss three Selectboard meetings already.
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Hartford School Board hopes to promote further work addressing racism in Vermont
Hartford school board member Kevin Christie at the budget information session in White River Junction, Vt., on March 2, 2019. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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HARTFORD The Hartford School Board has taken the unusual step of publishing an open letter to Hartford residents and Vermont citizens, addressing long-standing issues of racism and racial harassment in towns across the state and calling for Vermonters to speak out against those incidents.
Black women persevere to lead in Vermont despite harassment
In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, photo, Mia Schultz, president of the Rutland area branch of the NAACP, poses for a picture, in Bennington, Vt. Schultz has watched three other Black women in Vermont resign from leadership posts because of harassment and threats and has seen Black acquaintances move away from the progressive state because they felt unwelcome. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, photo, Mia Schultz, president of the Rutland area branch of the NAACP, right, walks with town Select Board candidate Tina Cook past a Black Lives Matter mural on a street in Bennington, Vt. A number of protesters, including some who carried an anti-Black Lives Matter sign, stood in the way during painting of the mural, forcing those working on the mural to paint around their feet and bodies blocking the letters. Cook came up short in the March 2 election in her effort to become the first African American elected