CRAFTSBURY – Craftsbury Academy Sophomore Ada Allen was awarded third place in Bernie Sander’s 16th Annual State of the Union Essay contest. Her essay proposing a community capacity-building after school program was one of only 15 essays chosen from 418 entries statewide. She and 13 other high school student finalists[Read More…]
Education
Hazen students take learning to lunch
HARDWICK – Students from Cynthia Osgood’s Life Skills classes at Hazen Union brought their classroom into the real world, March 24, with a special outing to The Village Restaurant. The trip was part of an ongoing financial literacy unit in which students have been building practical skills such as calculating[Read More…]
Greensboro Fire Department Visit
Supverisory union news recounts events
HARDWICK – In the April edition of “News from the office of Superintendent Dr. David Baker,” the retiring Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) superintendent said he’s been meeting weekly with incoming Superintendent Becca Tatistscheff. “We are working on the transition as she is brought up to speed. She will be[Read More…]
Journalism Award recognizes Strand as College Rising Star
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – University of Vermont’s Alex Strand earned several first-place awards in the Better Newspaper competition at the New England Newspaper Association (NENPA) annual meeting last month. Strand worked as an intern with The Hardwick Gazette last summer. The weekly News & Citizen, statewide Seven Days and online VTDigger[Read More…]
Jourdan selected as new food service director
HARDWICK – David Jourdan has been hired by Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union (OSSU) as its director of food service, effective July 1. He succeeds the current director, Valerie Hussey, who is retiring in June, after more than 25 years of service in various food service roles within the supervisory union[Read More…]
Local schools, students, earn recognition in state tournament
BARRE – On Saturday, March 21, the Destination Imagination state tournament took place at Barre City Elementary and Middle School. Local teams presented their solutions to challenges with a technical, arts or engineering focus, which they had worked on for several months. Local teams who received recognition in the competition[Read More…]
Craftsbury Academy Animal Husbandry Club learns horse care
Greensboro Fire Department visit to Lakeview preschool, March 24
Sterling pivots to ancient agriculture, education
CRAFTSBURY – The Sterling College Board announced plans last week to pivot to a non-degree curriculum officials managing the campus have been enticed by since its inception in 1887. The plan has the campus dropping all motorized and electrified conveniences, plus all its internet connections, returning to ancient agricultural and[Read More…]
GMTCC Trojan horsecapades foiled
HYDE PARK – The full-scale trojan horse built by Green Mountain Technical Center students has proven to be more than just a model. The students, who shall remain unnamed due to being minors with pending criminal charges, spent the last semester designing and constructing what was meant to be a[Read More…]
Mountainview, Wolcott schools advance rejected budgets for revote, April 7
HARDWICK, WOLCOTT, GREENSBORO, WOODBURY – Voters in the Wolcott and Mountainview Union School Districts will have the opportunity to vote April 7, on the identical budgets they rejected Town Meeting Day, March 3. A state infusion of $115 million to the Education Fund proposed in Governor Scott’s FY27 budget would[Read More…]
