Valley News - COVID-19: Virus cases send hundreds of students home from Vermont schools in the Upper Valley vnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Residents of Newbury and Bradford will decide whether to purchase 10-acre parcel for outdoor classroom
Modified: 7/19/2021 9:47:34 PM
NEWBURY, Vt. Even prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Upper Valley elementary schools were implementing outdoor learning. Among them was Newbury Elementary School, which six years ago started to use a nearby parcel of land that came to be called the Forest School as an outdoor education space.
Next month, residents of Newbury and Bradford, the two towns of the Oxbow Unified Union School district, will decide whether to purchase the 10-acre parcel off Pulaski Street. The School Board set a special meeting vote for 6 p.m. on Aug. 17. An informational meeting is planned for Aug. 11, both in person and on Zoom.
Coronavirus: Outbreak at Sullivan County nursing home grows over the weekend
Modified: 5/10/2021 9:56:01 PM
UNITY A COVID-19 outbreak at Sullivan County nursing home has grown to include 18 people, according to the facility’s administrator.
Thirteen residents and five workers at Sullivan County nursing home had tested positive for COVID-19 as of Friday, up a total of four from the week before, Ted Purdy, the administrator, wrote in an update posted to social media.
But the facility has had no new positive results since Friday, “which is very encouraging,” he said in a Monday email.
The outbreak has forced the facility to pause visitation until it goes for two weeks without new positive results, Purdy said. Full personal protective equipment is in use on the affected units, MacConnell and Stearns.
Town Meeting Preview: Oxbow Unified Union School District
Published: 4/12/2021 10:03:50 PM
Modified: 4/12/2021 10:03:48 PM
Hot topic: The Oxbow Unified Union School District struggled to pass a budget for the current school year, finally succeeding on the fourth try, in mid-January, only three months ago. Voters in Newbury, Vt., also rejected an attempt to withdraw the town from the district, in which it is partnered with Bradford. Have the hot topics simmered down?
Budget: The proposed budget of nearly $17.2 million, which would fund the operations of Bradford Elementary School, Newbury Elementary School, Oxbow High School and River Bend Career and Technical Center, as well as preschool programs and the district s share of the Orange East Supervisory Union budget, is about $392,000 higher than the current year’s.
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