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With 5 resignations in the past year, Hartford Selectboard members keep choosing the exit
Juila Dalphin (Courtesy CATV)
Modified: 5/25/2021 9:45:02 PM
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION Hartford officials are planning a special election to fill two Selectboard seats left open after board members Julia Dalphin and Rachel Edens stepped down this month.
They are the fourth and fifth members to resign from the seven-member board in less than a year.
In her resignation letter submitted Thursday, Dalphin said she had accepted a new job as a chief quality officer for a home health agency in Barre, Vt., in February, shortly before she was elected to the board in Town Meeting voting. She wrote that she’d hoped to juggle work and board duties but said her busy schedule has forced her to miss three Selectboard meetings already.
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PUTNEY â State Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham, knows that the comments she made during a Judiciary Committee hearing April 2 were racially insensitive, and that many people were not satisfied with her subsequent apology for those comments. She says she is sorry, on both accounts.
âIâm not trying to justify myself and say I donât have prejudices and biases,â White said Friday. âIâm trying to learn all the time. But I donât consider myself a racist.â
White, the senior senator from the Windham district, has been at the center of a firestorm since stories about her comments were published in news stories, blogs and social media. Sheâs gotten emails saying she should resign and heard pointed criticism within the state as well.
Hartford School Board hopes to promote further work addressing racism in Vermont
Hartford school board member Kevin Christie at the budget information session in White River Junction, Vt., on March 2, 2019. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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Modified: 3/13/2021 11:06:03 PM
HARTFORD The Hartford School Board has taken the unusual step of publishing an open letter to Hartford residents and Vermont citizens, addressing long-standing issues of racism and racial harassment in towns across the state and calling for Vermonters to speak out against those incidents.