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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Forum, Feb. 23: Bias and bigotry shown toward gun owners
Published: 2/22/2021 10:00:15 PM
Modified: 2/22/2021 10:00:12 PM
Bias and bigotry shown toward gun owners
I have decided that it is time to voice my First Amendment right to free speech while I still have it.
Steve Nelson’s Jan. 30 op-ed column (“There’s no vaccine for America’s gun virus”) was appalling and over the top against gun owners, calling them a virus. Being involved with shooting sports most of my adult life, I have never misused or threatened anyone with a firearm and don’t know anyone who has. It seems Nelson can’t understand why police and ex-military are involved with certain groups. The answer is simple: They know what it takes to keep a democracy and its freedoms.
Oxbow school district budget passes on fourth try
Modified: 1/14/2021 10:55:38 PM
BRADFORD, Vt. On the fourth attempt, voters in the Oxbow Unified Union School District approved a budget for the 2020-21 school year in Australian and absentee balloting on Wednesday.
Voters in the district’s two towns, Bradford and Newbury, approved the $16.8 million budget by a count of 552-351, with one spoiled ballot.
“I was really surprised by the margin,” Danielle Corti, chair of the Oxbow district’s board, said Thursday morning. “That, to me, meant we didn’t just win a few people over.”
The last vote, on Nov. 24, saw a higher turnout, as voters rejected the same budget, 593-578. For that vote, the two towns sent ballots to all voters, but for Wednesday’s vote, only voters who requested ballots from their town clerks received them.
Newbury sticks with Oxbow district
Modified: 12/30/2020 9:17:35 PM
NEWBURY, Vt. Voters have rejected a proposal to leave the Oxbow Unified Union School District and return Newbury Elementary School to a standalone school district.
In Australian and mail-in balloting on Tuesday, Newbury residents voted 169-140 to defeat the proposal.
Newbury had tried in 2018 to avoid joining the Oxbow district, which pairs the town with Bradford, Vt., and oversees an elementary school in each town as well as Oxbow High School and River Bend Career and Technical Center. The State Board of Education required the involuntary merger that created the district under Act 46, Vermont’s 2015 school consolidation law.
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