A Life: Sue Barnaby; ‘She so believed in play as learning’
Susan Barnaby reads to some of her nieces and nephews and other Tunbridge children during the time when she was running a home day care in the 1990s. (Family photograph)
Susan Barnaby holds her daughter, Erin, who is now 36, at the child s baptism at Tunbridge Congregational Church. With her are her mother, Elaine Cilley, left, and her grandmother, Ruby Keyser. Barnaby s family has been in Tunbridge since the 1790s. (Family photograph)
Susan Cilley, later Barnaby, back left, with her siblings, clockwise from back right, Patricia, Brenda and Dennis, in a photograph from the 1960s. (Family photograph)
Town Meeting preview: Tunbridge eyeing dip in tax rate, town garage expansion
Published: 5/19/2021 11:27:34 PM
Modified: 5/19/2021 11:52:26 PM
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Budget: Voters at Tunbridge’s Town Meeting on Saturday are being asked to approve a $611,504 general fund budget and $961,140 for the highway fund. All told, that’s about $35,000 less than passed in fiscal year 2021, and could result in a 1-cent-per-$100-of-valuation drop in the town tax rate, or a $25 savings on a home assessed at $250,000.
But though it’s not on the warning this year, town officials are giving residents a “heads-up” that they may expand the Town Garage at some point so more heavy equipment, which has sophisticated electronics, can be stored inside.
Tunbridge voters stick with First Branch School District
Poll worker Shari Murawski talks with voter Jeff Hood, after he dropped his ballot into the box during a vote in Tunbridge, Vt., over whether to withdraw from the First Branch Unified School District at the Town Hall Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Town Clerk Mariah Cilley is at right. Cilley said about 20 absentee ballots were requested by residents. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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Modified: 1/10/2021 8:55:38 PM
TUNBRIDGE – Voters in Tunbridge on Saturday narrowly defeated a proposal to withdraw from the First Branch Unified School District.
Tunbridge prepares to vote on dissolving school district, splitting from Chelsea
Modified: 1/5/2021 10:00:41 PM
TUNBRIDGE Dissolving the First Branch Unified School District could be a costly endeavor for taxpayers in Tunbridge and Chelsea if voters in the district’s two towns decide to do so.
An analysis presented by the White River Valley Supervisory Union at a meeting Monday night showed that the tax rate in Tunbridge would have been 18 cents higher per $100 of valuation this year if Tunbridge Central School was operated by a single-town district.
The rate in Chelsea would have been 20 cents higher.
The meeting, held jointly by the Tunbridge Selectboard and the First Branch district’s board, was an informational session in advance of Tunbridge’s vote on Saturday to decide whether to leave the district. About 95 different accounts logged into Zoom for the meeting, and the discussion ranged over what the vote would entail, the school district’s struggles to integrate