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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Our Pandemic Year: Lessons from the school bus lunch run
Modified: 3/10/2021 9:38:01 PM
Editor’s note: In anticipation of the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic’s arrival in the Upper Valley, we asked Valley News readers to reflect on the last 12 months and to share their thoughts about what has changed in their lives, what they missed, what they lost and what they may have learned. We’re sharing their responses as part of a series we are calling “Our Pandemic Year.”
“Home, is where I want to be
But I guess I’m already there.” This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), Talking Heads, 1983
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VP Harris, inaugural poet Gorman inspire in the Upper Valley
Grace McKinnon, 9, and her mother Whitney Carroll McKinnon, of Bradford, Vt., at their home on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Together, they watched highlights of the inauguration on Wednesday after Grace got home from school and were particularly moved watching Vice President Kamala Harris take the oath of office. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Youth filmmaker Ezra McGinley-Smith at his home in Norwich, Vt., on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. McGinley-Smith was inspired by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and hopes her success will encourage adults to include more young people in important events. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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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.
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