CRAFTSBURY – Comments by Sterling College President Dr. Scott Thomas at last Tuesday’s select board meeting about that school’s decision to end degree programs after this academic year were eclipsed by the announcement of a federal lawsuit against the town regarding operation of its gravel pit. Plaintiffs James LaRock and[Read More…]
Education
School board members release redistricting survey results
HARDWICK – A survey about the state’s Act 73 redistricting conducted by members of Hardwick’s school boards last month distributed to those attending an October 29 in-person gathering at the Jeudevine Library and on-line was filled out by 84 people. Of those responding, 98.8% felt it was moderately, very or[Read More…]
Students’ Hibernation Feast featured on WCAX
WOODBURY – Kindergarten and first grade students, with their sixth grade buddies at Woodbury Elementary School, prepared and served an on-campus Hibernation Feast to over 100 of their families, teachers and community members, last Tuesday, Nov. 18. The Woodbury Bears’ meal was the culmination of a farm-to-fork and restaurant business[Read More…]
Existing School District, Supervisory Union structure may remain
ST. JOHNSBURY – Vermont’s School District Redistricting Task Force (TF) is likely to recommend the current state school district (SD) and supervisory union (SU) structure remain in place, said Caledonia County Senator Scott Beck following Monday’s task force meeting in Waterbury. “The TF decided not to advance the much-discussed CTE[Read More…]
K/1 class studies farm-to-food systems to host community meal
WOODBURY – Kindergarten and first grade students in Catherine Siefert’s class at Woodbury Elementary School visited Sterling College to learn about farm-to-food systems, on Monday, Oct. 27. The visit was part of a project that will culminate with their working with the Woodbury School’s sixth grade class to put on[Read More…]
Rapid action needed
To the editor: One of the three maps being developed by Vermont’s Act 73 Redistricting Committee is based around Career and Technical Education (CTE) centers and it poses serious risks to our local schools. In the latest draft of the CTE-based proposal, the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) has been[Read More…]
More questions than answers raised at Act 73 Forum
HARDWICK – Area school board members and legislators were well-representated at a forum led by members of the three Hardwick school boards that was billed as a community conversation about Vermont’s Act 73 school redistricting legislation, last Wednesday in the Jeudevine Memorial Library. Board members shared what they know about[Read More…]
HU’s HUGS Club awarded $10,000 grant
HARDWICK – Hazen Union High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), known as the HUGS Club, has been awarded a $10,000 Changemakers grant from the It Gets Better Project to support a student-led initiative: a two-day regional queer youth dance and summit.The Hazen Union HUGS Club is a community-centered club focused on[Read More…]
Hazen students attend, comment on school redistricting forum
HARDWICK – At 8:02 p.m., Wednesday, October 29 in the Jeudevine Library, Hazen Union Student Council President Sadie Gann discussed impacts of the state’s redistricting bill after a community meeting organized by Hardwick’s school district representatives. The bill would see a major shift in school administration, and many predict it[Read More…]
Students harvest seeds for planting
HARDWICK – In October, first-graders from Hardwick Elementary School met with high school students from Hazen’s Dare to Be Me class at Atkins Field. There, Reeve Basom and Bethany Dunbar from the Center for an Agricultural Economy welcomed them for a morning of riparian seed conservation activities with community partner[Read More…]
WOW Wednesday has middle-schoolers learning outdoors
CRAFTSBURY — Craftsbury Middle School students in grades six to eight leave the classroom each Wednesday for the WOW (With Out Walls) program. Vermont becomes a classroom every Wednesday as they have picked blueberries, gone rock climbing and visited the shores of Lake Champlain. All 59 middle-schoolers made the 1.6[Read More…]
Interim school principal hired
CABOT – Superintendent Matt Foster recommended Steve Owens be hired as interim principal for this school year at a special meeting of the Cabot School District Board of Directors, October 20. Board members then authorized Foster to hire Owens at .6 full time equivalent. Cabot School Board Vice-Chair Ellen Cairns[Read More…]
