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John Flowers
This idea that (Ripton Elementary School) is worth ‘saving’ at any cost is elitist. When our taxes go up, how will our low-income neighbors afford to live here? Ripton residents Heather and Joe Durante
RIPTON You’ll forgive Ripton residents this year for being more preoccupied by their neighbors’ town meeting results than their own.
That’s because residents in Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge on March 2 will decide whether to endorse Ripton’s bid to withdraw from the Addison Central School District. Ripton residents in an effort to preserve their local school, which has been targeted for closure due to low enrollment voted 163-107 on Jan. 12 to leave the ACSD and become an independent school district.
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Experts offer advice on cutting firewood David Fowler By Joy VanderLek, Special to the Record-Journal
CHESHIRE â The coldest winter weather showed up the last few days of January. Stepping outside for even a moment without a hat, mittens and proper clothing and the wind went right through you. Still, so far, the season has not been as cold as some winters. Records from the early 1940s earn Falls Village the top spot in the freezer section with a reading of minus 32 degrees. Yet, on the last weekend of January 2021, town residents were waking up to temperatures in the low teens after single digits overnight â a frigid plunge that encouraged many people to turn to their woodstoves and fireplaces.
Newbury, Tunbridge among Vermont towns considering leaving school districts
Students at the Ripton Elementary School head to the bus at the end of the day on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Modified: 12/28/2020 8:45:38 PM
MONTPELIER At least five towns across Vermont will vote in the coming weeks on whether to secede from their unified school districts, a first wave of district breakups that could herald more.
For David Major, the former Westminster School Board chairman who helped organize a petition for his town to vote Jan. 5 on secession, it is fundamentally a question of local control. Westminster has already collaborated with its neighboring towns on such services as food service and special education, Major said, and has seen no added benefit to being forced to combine school boards with Athens and Grafton under Act 46.