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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.
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.
Published: 12/17/2020 10:00:24 PM
Modified: 12/17/2020 10:00:13 PM
Workers going ‘nose commando’ help no one
Thanks to Peter J. Murdza Jr., for his letter about Hanover postal workers who do not follow pandemic protocols (“Postal workers in Hanover without masks a concern,” Dec. 15).
Though I have never previously had a problem with the Hanover Post Office, when I went in to mail two packages recently, the clerk (who did not wear a name badge) was wearing a face mask covering only his mouth. I did not step all the way up to the counter and asked him to please adjust his mask so it covered his nose properly. He declined to do so.