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WESTMINSTER â Bellows Falls Union High School board member Jason Terry apologized Monday night for his verbal outburst last month at the school principal, saying he was just trying to protect his son.
âI would like to apologize for my behavior,â he said. âMy passion got the best of me.â
âOn March 23rd I was involved in a shouting match at Bellows Falls Union High School with Principal (Christopher) Hodsden and I own that. I found out recently that there were people at the high school who felt uncomfortable by that confrontation, and to anyone who feels this way you have my unequivocal apology. This will never happen again,â Terry said.
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GRAFTON â The towns of Grafton and Athens have given their blessing to an administrative school divorce proposed by Westminster school leaders.
Westminster had voted overwhelmingly in favor of dissolving the Windham Northeast Unified Union School District in January.
But before Westminster can pursue the Act 46 divorce, the other two towns in the elementary school union district had to agree, according to the little-known state law that towns unhappy with Act 46 are following.
Grafton and Athens at Town Meeting on Tuesday both approved the plan via Australian ballot, with Grafton voting 190-18 and Athens giving its approval at 132-42.
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UNBC could become first Canadian University to offer free menstrual products in bathrooms
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After a new initiative, the University of Northern BC could become the first University in the country to offer free menstrual products on its campuses.
Known as the Period Promise Campaign, started by the United Way, aims to tackle the issue of period poverty – many people who need to use these products cannot afford them.
The Northern British Columbia Graduate Student Society has been advocating for UNBC to provide free menstrual products in all of its washrooms, but the project still has a little ways to go.
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WESTMINSTER â With Westminster residents voting overwhelming to return to their traditional school district, the focus now turns to Grafton and Athens.
In a modest turnout for a special town meeting, Westminster voters voted 200-58 in favor of leaving the consolidated elementary school district, forced upon all three towns by the Vermont Board of Education.
In a second companion vote, 219-35, voters agreed to the steps needed for the local school district to re-establish its own Westminster School Board, and assuming ownership of its school buildings and other issues that were cancelled by the Act 46 forced merger.