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A Life: Sue Barnaby; ‘She so believed in play as learning’
Susan Barnaby reads to some of her nieces and nephews and other Tunbridge children during the time when she was running a home day care in the 1990s. (Family photograph)
Susan Barnaby holds her daughter, Erin, who is now 36, at the child s baptism at Tunbridge Congregational Church. With her are her mother, Elaine Cilley, left, and her grandmother, Ruby Keyser. Barnaby s family has been in Tunbridge since the 1790s. (Family photograph)
Susan Cilley, later Barnaby, back left, with her siblings, clockwise from back right, Patricia, Brenda and Dennis, in a photograph from the 1960s. (Family photograph)
Wed, 05/19/2021 - 7:32pm John McCright
By:
John Flowers
RIPTON The Vermont State Board of Education (SBE) on Wednesday approved, by an 8-0 vote, Ripton’s request to withdraw from the Addison Central School District.
The panel, by an identical vote, also agreed to the Addison Central School District’s request that it remain a school district and not revert to a supervisory union in wake of Ripton’s departure.
The SBE’s decision means Ripton can move forward with re-forming a local school board to take on much of the heavy lifting that will be required for the community to become an independent district, serving its younger kids at Ripton Elementary School while tuitioning its older students to Middlebury Union middle and high schools, among other options.
RIPTON Ripton’s bid to withdraw from the Addison Central School District will again take center stage before the Vermont State Board of Education (SBE) next Wednesday, May 19.
Tunbridge prepares to vote on dissolving school district, splitting from Chelsea
Modified: 1/5/2021 10:00:41 PM
TUNBRIDGE Dissolving the First Branch Unified School District could be a costly endeavor for taxpayers in Tunbridge and Chelsea if voters in the district’s two towns decide to do so.
An analysis presented by the White River Valley Supervisory Union at a meeting Monday night showed that the tax rate in Tunbridge would have been 18 cents higher per $100 of valuation this year if Tunbridge Central School was operated by a single-town district.
The rate in Chelsea would have been 20 cents higher.
The meeting, held jointly by the Tunbridge Selectboard and the First Branch district’s board, was an informational session in advance of Tunbridge’s vote on Saturday to decide whether to leave the district. About 95 different accounts logged into Zoom for the meeting, and the discussion ranged over what the vote would entail, the school district’s struggles to integrate