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Thu, 02/25/2021 - 3:20pm meganj By: 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. ....
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 12:31pm meganj By: John Flowers RIPTON RESIDENT ERIN Robinson stands with her sons and a sign urging her fellow residents to vote in favor of a Jan. 12 referendum that could see her community begin the process of withdrawing from the Addison Central School District. Weybridge residents will field the same question on Jan. 12. PROPONENTS OF A Jan. 12 vote on whether Ripton should leave the Addison Central School District in order to keep their elementary school open see withdrawing from the ACSD as their last, best chance to save their small local elementary schools from closing through a district consolidation plan. ....