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Left to right, moderator Bill LeQuier, school board members Cindy Florence and James Irace, and Readsboro Central School Principal Robin Oyer at Monday’s information meeting. Mike Eldred
READSBORO- Voters approved Readsboro School District’s proposed $1.7 million budget in a 90 to 68 vote by Australian ballot Tuesday.  
Readsboro is facing an 18-cent increase in their homestead school tax rate for fiscal year 2025 with the passage of the budget.  At Monday evening’s annual...
DOVER- Two suspects in a string of high-profile burglaries around southern Vermont and Massachusetts have been arrested and are facing extradition to Vermont, according to the Dover Police Department.
Police said Lucas Walter, 23, of Readsboro, was arrested on a limited extraditable...

Wilmington resident Bob McConnin makes a point during discussion on Article 3 at Tuesday’s Town Meeting. RC
Voters support floor meeting, town budgets WILMINGTON- For the second consecutive year, voters at Town Meeting overwhelmingly defeated two articles that asked if the town should move away from a traditional floor vote to Australian ballots. They also strongly supported a...
DOVER - River Valleys Unified School District held their regular meeting at The Dover School on Monday, February 26. Items on the agenda were a third look at the draft budget, funding The Dover School’s roof repairs, and updates from the principals of The Dover School and Wardsboro Elementary....

Town officials and selectboard members during Searburg’s Town Meeting Monday evening. Ivy Kirby
SEARSBURG - Voters cruised through the warning on Monday, March 4, with the Town Meeting only lasting seven minutes and the annual school district lasting less than 15.
Town treasurer and moderator Zetella Penson called to order the school district meeting at 6:30 pm. School members Tony...
READSBORO- Voters quickly plowed through a dozen warned articles at Monday evening’s Town Meeting, raising and appropriating a total of $1,455,507 for the town’s fiscal year 2025 expenditures.  Voters also allocated $47,000 in surplus funds from the fiscal year 2023 budget. 
Voters...

Voters cast their ballots during Whitingham’s Town Meeting, which was held Tuesday at the Twin Valley Middle High School gymnasium. Mike Eldred
WHITINGHAM- Moderator Leon Corse kicked off Whitingham’s 2024 Town Meeting with news that he would be retiring from his moderator duties after next year’s Town Meeting.  
Corse has served as Whitingham’s moderator for 40 years, during which he has set a high standard of civility, discourse...
Brendan McNamara is the newest board member of Southeast Vermont Transit.
Brendan McNamara is the newest board member of Southeast Vermont Transit.

LUDLOW - Southeast Vermont Transit (SEVT aka The MOOver) welcomes Brendan McNamara to its board of directors effective February 20, 2024.
McNamara has been the Ludlow municipal manager for the past year. Prior to that he was town manager in Cavendish for seven years. He lives in...
BURLINGTON - Kylie Cleanthes, of Wilmington, made the UVM dean’s list last semester. She had a 4.0 GPA, took 18 credits, and worked part time at a day care center with 12 hours minimum of work. She was placed on the dean’s list for the College of Education and Social Services at the University of...
The West Wardsboro Yoked Parish will move to the historic Baptist Church.
The West Wardsboro Yoked Parish will move to the historic Baptist Church.
WEST WARDSBORO - The Wardsboro Yoked Parish will move to the historic Baptist Church on Cross Road on Sunday, March 3, at 9 am.  Worship services will continue through Sunday, May 26.  Communion is served on the first Sunday of each month and a coffee hour is planned on the last Sunday of each...

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