HARDWICK — On Thursday, March 19, the 2025 Learning Earning Connection Exhibition provided area students with an opportunity to meet local business leaders. In a partnership with Northeast Kingdom Learning Services (NEKLS), HireAbility and Lamoille Health Partners, Hazen Union High School held an apprenticeship style job fair for youth and[Read More…]
Education
Andrew Royan Honored at FBLA State Leadership Conference
CRAFTSBURY COMMON – Craftsbury Academy sophomore Andrew Royan, a student in the Computer Networking Program at Green Mountain Technology and Career Center, recently won multiple state titles at the Vermont Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference held at Champlain College, March 14. Royan earned gold medals for[Read More…]
Center Road Repaving, an HED Report and Grants Lead Agenda
HARDWICK – The Thursday, March 20, select board meeting began right on time, with Chair Eric Remick counting down to 6 p.m. Items were moved through quickly with approval to proceed with submitting a grant for repaving Center Road a highlight of the meeting. Amanda Fecteau gave the road foreman[Read More…]
Di Giulio Named High School Principal of Year
HARDWICK — Hazen Union School principal Dr. Jason Di Giulio has been selected as the 2025 Vermont High School Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Di Giulio, who joined Hazen Union in 2020, has seen service as a commissioned Army officer, teaching experience[Read More…]
School Revives Square Dancing with Help from Local Community
WOLCOTT — Wolcott Elementary School is integrating square dancing into its physical education curriculum, through a collaborative effort between school staff and local dance experts.The initiative began when Principal Dennis Hill, who has memories of square dancing from his own school days, noticed the traditional activity was missing from Wolcott’s[Read More…]
Craftsbury Schools Winter Arts Showcase Spotlights Student Talent
CRAFTSBURY COMMON — The Craftsbury Academy gymnasium came alive on March 13, as students of all ages shared their creative talents in a vibrant showcase for the school and community. The event demonstrated a wide range of student skills. The gymnasium was transformed into an art gallery, featuring a collection[Read More…]
Sola-Thomas, Team Earn Second Place in Design Competition
POTSDAM, N.Y. — A team of four Clarkson University mechanical engineering students has placed second in the Walt Disney Imagineering Imaginations Design Competition. The team, including Juan Pablo Sola-Thomas of Plainfield, Vt., represented Clarkson University on a national stage in a competition known for fostering creativity, technical excellence and innovation.[Read More…]
Twinfield and Cabot School Budgets Pass
PLAINFIELD, CABOT – Caledonia Central School District budgets for Twinfield Union School District and Cabot School passed in Australian balloting, March 4. Twinfield’s budget of $8,402,577 will result in per pupil education spending of $13,814, which is 5.4% higher than per pupil education spending for the current year. Cabot School’s[Read More…]
Hardwick Elementary Winter Carnival
Two CA Students Represent Vermont on Advisory Council
CRAFTSBURY COMMON — Craftsbury Academy ninth-grade students Ada Allen and Jo Lander have been accepted to represent Vermont on the Gilder Lehrman Student Advisory Council. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization dedicated to K-12 history education. Its mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding[Read More…]
GMTCC Forestry Students Log 75-year-old White Pines
CRAFTSBURY – This winter Green Mountain Career Center (GMTCC) Forestry Program students have been logging at the Craftsbury Academy (CA) Woodlot where they shipped their first load of white pine logs in January. The CA Woodlot is a roughly 80-acre piece of land at the end of Wylie Hill Road[Read More…]
OSSU: Students, Community Benefit from Free, Universal School Meals
HARDWICK – Food Service Director Val Hussey continues to coordinate school meals for the six OSSU campuses as Governor Scott and the legislature debate a new proposal to organize and fund education in Vermont that includes cuts to funding free school meals for all, Pandemic-era funding allowed schools to offer[Read More…]
