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…]
Education
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…]
Cut to Free School Meals Prompts Pushback
VERMONT — In the face of skyrocketing property taxes across the state, Gov. Phil Scott is looking for new ways to economize Vermont’s education spending. The statewide average property tax bill increased nearly 14% last year, triggering calls for cost control and an uncharacteristic red wave in November’s election that[Read More…]
GMTCC Budget Passes
HYDE PARK – Voters of the Lamoille North Modified Unified Union School District #58 (LNSU) approved the budget for Green Mountain Technology & Career Center for $4,191,823 on March 4, by a vote of 934 to 232. Students at Craftsbury Academy and Hazen Union High School are eligible to apply[Read More…]
Goldenrose Advances to the State Finals of Poetry Out Loud
HARDWICK – Ursa Goldenrose, a ninth-grade student at Hazen Union, will compete in the state finals of Poetry Out Loud after her success in the regional contest. She will face nine other semifinalists at the upcoming event. Goldenrose participated in the regional Poetry Out Loud competition on March 6 at[Read More…]
MVU School Budget, $1.2M Bond Pass
HARDWICK – The Mountain View Union (MVU) Elementary School District Australian ballot vote on articles 5 and 6, town meeting day, March 4 resulted in the $8,973,600.32 budget passing with 353 votes in favor to 259 votes against, out of 612 votes cast. MVU estimated the proposed budget will result[Read More…]
Mille Receives Scholarship to International Science School
CRAFTSBURY – Raz Mille, a 16-year-old Craftsbury Academy sophomore has been selected as one of five students in the U.S. receiving an all expense-paid scholarship to attend the 2025 International Science School (ISS) in Australia this summer. One hundred ten science students from around the world will gather at the[Read More…]
MVU Ballot Error Raises Questions about Results
HARDWICK – An apparent error on the printed ballot for the budget article shows increased per pupil spending of $15,582.40 that will result if the budget passes, with the ambiguous notation “higher/lower than the per pupil education spending for the current year.” The warning indicates only “higher.” It’s unclear what[Read More…]
