CRAFTSBURY – Craftsbury Academy still had to use bottled water in January, two years after toxic PFAs were tested in the water.
The Commoner, Craftsbury Academy’s student magazine, was recognized with an honorable mention by the National Council of Teachers of English.
Craftsbury voters held their last floor vote for select board at the March 5 town meeting.
Sterling College received $695,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending from Sen. Peter Welch to develop a new workforce readiness curriculum that enables students to engage in place-based, project-based learning in collaboration with community partners.
A snowstorm in March left 11 inches on the Common.
Craftsbury Academy hosted the 37th Annual Vermont State Scholastic Chess Tournament, Sunday, March 24, with 192 players.
The Craftsbury Library held an event for the total solar eclipse, April 8.
At the April 16 select board meeting, the road foreman updated the board on dogs, trash and an insurance claim. NVDA’s road representative would be doing inspections and $32-$33k was put toward ditching.
Sterling College students erected an encampment in solidarity with Gaza, making five demands of the college, which included financial transparency and divestment from the Israeli occupation, an institutional call for ceasefire and a free Palestine, cultivation of Palestinian affiliations, academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions and businesses, and amnesty for student protesters.
Eric Hanson and Mark Snyder described weatherization of the Hanson’s 1834 house in Craftsbury on May 4, before leading a tour of the home’s interior as part of a weatherization program.
Craftsbury third and fourth grade students made cake sculptures out of plaster and clay then painted them as part of an Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union Art in Bloom presentation at the Highland Center for the Arts, May 14.
A community forum was held Wednesday, May 15, in the Craftsbury Academy Gymnasium to continue the Craftsbury Schools Vision Process.
Academy seniors graduated June 7.
Craftsbury Schools and Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union announced that Lisa McCarthy had been chosen as Craftsbury’s next principal. McCarthy left her position as principal of Lakeview and Woodbury Elementary Schools to begin her new role, July 1.
Craftsbury received 3.22 inches of rain on July 10 and 11. At 5:30 a.m. on July 11, a social media post noted road closures on Mill Village Road from Wylie Hill to King Farm, Whetstone Brook Road, Cemetery Road, Black River Road, Post Road and Daniels Road. Roads with only one lane passable, requiring extra caution were Mountain Hill Road and Urie Road.
On July 13, Craftsbury’s only reported road closure was King Farm Road.
The Academy History Club presented topics at April’s Vermont History at UVM in Burlington.
Craftsbury Saplings learned they had received a Northern Border Regional Commission Grant to help fund their expansion to accommodate 54 children.
An ice cream social and pie auction was held August 22 at the Craftsbury Community Care Center.
A July 3 block party in Craftsbury Village featured music and food from the Genny.
The Antiques and Uniques event was held July 13 on Craftsbury Common with 100 vendors to benefit the town’s nonprofit organizations.
Craftsbury held its Old Home Day parade, August 10.
The Craftsbury Conservation Commission revamped its efforts with a new grant to combat a non-native invasive plant species, Japanese Knotweed.
Craftsbury Academy (CA) and Hazen Union’s cross-country teams were back on the trail at the NVAC Mountain Division meet at St. Johnsbury Academy (SJA).
A September 8 talk in the library in the 70th anniversary year of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Trouble with Harry,” provided historical context to the film that was shot mostly in Craftsbury during September 1954.
Saplings updated the select board on their expansion project, saying a site had been selected.
An October 23 debate in the Academy gym between Orleans County Senate candidates Katherinen Sims and eventual winner Sam Douglass was planned and run by students.
Craftsbury Saplings Received a $50,000 planning grant from First Children’s Finance Vermont to help with the planned expansion project.
It was the first year with a vote tabulator at the November 5 election and seasoned election official, Cheryl Bailey said, “Now that we have the tabulator, if everything goes well, we’ll have the votes counted two hours after. This is our first year with the tabulator. We’ll have people here to verify the count, but before we had to do it all by hand, so that would be a lot of work.”
A repair workshop hosted at the Craftsbury Public Library was held November 9.
Craftsbury’s Thanksgiving Farmers Market was held November 23 in the Craftsbury Academy gymnasium with 20 vendors participating.. The Craftsbury Turkey Trot was held, November 24, starting and finishing at the Common.
North Branch Nature Center teacher-naturalist Ash Kerby-Miller asked students to build a snow mansion with an arch or tunnel to support the weight of a large snowball and some held even a six or seven year-old student.
A Vermont Agency of Transportation’s snowplow named Rudolph the Holiday Snowplow was driven in the Craftsbury Parade of Lights around the Common, December 14. It was joined by the S.D. Ireland Holiday Lights concrete mixer, “Pinky,” in the event hosted by the Craftsbury Recreation Committee.
A United Church of Craftsbury workshop was held Sunday, Dec. 15, with 10 craft-making stations. Alan Meyer and his son Walter, of Bethlehem, N.H., cut down an 8 ½ foot Balsam Christmas tree at Moffatt’s Tree Farm, December 15.
A holiday farmers market was held December 14 in the Academy gym.
