Education
Craftsbury Academy receives grant to launch rocketry club
CRAFTSBURY – The countdown has begun for the newly formed Craftsbury Comets Rocketry Club, which recently announced it is the recipient of a $1,000 Northrop Grumman Foundation STEM Innovation Grant through the American Rocketry Challenge (ARC). The grant will fund materials and tools needed for students to design, build and[Read More…]
Academy students win Gold Key Awards
CRAFTSBURY – Two Craftsbury Academy students, Lillian Allen (12) and Kosmos Gletsos (11, Green Mountain Technology and Career Center), are among 167 young artists and writers from across Vermont who have been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for exceptional artistic and literary talent. Both Allen and Gletsos[Read More…]
CCV Announces Fall 2025 President’s List
MONTPELIER — Students at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) named to the fall 2025 President’s List are Cheyenne Herdling of Cabot and Khamden Luangrath of Hardwick. This honor recognizes full-time students with a 4.0 grade point average.
CCV announces fall 2025 Deans List
MONTPELIER –– The following students at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) were named to the fall 2025 Dean’s List: Seville Murphy of Calais and Alexis Christensen of Hardwick. This honor recognizes full-time students with a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.99.
CCV Announces Fall 2025 Student Honors List
MONTPELIER — Students at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) named to the fall 2025 Student Honors list are Charlotte Cloutier, Noah Haveson, Kristina McIntosh and Stefany Trautner of Hardwick; Marie Barney, Shannon Cookson, Alanna Flynn of Marshfield; and Joann Marckres of Woodbury. This honor recognizes part-time students with a[Read More…]
School radon testing results mixed
VERMONT – Auditor Douglas R. (Doug) Hoffer released information on February 19, about research his department has done on radon testing in schools. “Vermont schools should be healthy and safe environments in which to learn and work,” he said. The Vermont Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law a[Read More…]
Helms advances to regional Poetry Out Loud competition
HARDWICK – Will Helms, an 11th-grade student at Hazen Union School, has been announced as the school winner of the Poetry Out Loud competition held on December 23. Helms will advance to the regional Poetry Out Loud contest, coordinated by the Vermont Arts Council and the Flynn, February 12 at[Read More…]
Music students represent Hazen Union at regional festivals
HARDWICK – For Hazen Union senior Quinn Molleur, engaging in music has opened doors to travel and new experiences. Molleur traveled to Connecticut last March for the New England Music Festival, a competitive opportunity for high school students in the region. “Not only did I get to go to a[Read More…]
Hazen Union hatches trout, new learning opportunities
HARDWICK – Hazen Union School has launched a new student trout hatchery club, led by advisors Chelsea Ross and Jay Modry, through the national Trout in the Classroom initiative. Students received their trout eggs from the Salisbury Fish Hatchery, delivered by volunteers with Trout Unlimited, on January 6. The trout[Read More…]
Welch secures nearly $60 million for Vermont communities
BURLINGTON, VT – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, announced February 6 that he has secured $58.68 million in federal funds to support 38 Vermont projects, including projects in the Northeast Kingdom, Senator Welch nominated project recipients through the[Read More…]
House lawmaker’s proposed school consolidation map would combine 119 districts into 27
MONTPELIER – Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, the House Education Committee chair, on Thursday introduced the first concrete proposal presented this legislative session to consolidate Vermont’s dozens of school districts. The proposal would merge the state’s 119 districts and the 52 entities that govern them into 27 supervisory districts, each with[Read More…]
