DOVER - At the Dover School Board meeting on Monday, principal Matt Martyn shared SBAC scores, which showed improvement over last year’s scores. And the Dover School Board said goodbye. With the River Valleys Unified Union School District becoming operational on July 1, the Dover School Board...
DOVER - At a rather brief meeting on Tuesday, June 4, the Dover Selectboard gave the OK to road commissioner Bobby Holland to accept bids for summer paving projects. The board also reappointed conservation committee members. Several agenda items were tabled, though, including a discussion about...
DOVER - At the selectboard’s meeting on Tuesday, May 21, the board said it was open to hearing more about running a business grant program, which the town has already set aside funding for, through the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation.
The board also reviewed, but put off...
DOVER - At the Dover School Board’s regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Gerie Golet urged the board to revisit its policy regarding proof of residency for students, claiming she was aware of several incidents of tuition fraud occurring in the town. Chair Rich Werner told Golet the matter would...
DOVER - At Tuesday’s selectboard meeting, police chief Randy Johnson asked the board for its blessing to hire an officer more than a year in advance of an impending retirement. The hire will require $14,000 more than Johnson budgeted for the next year. Johnson also said he intends to retire in...
DOVER - At the Dover Selectboard’s meeting on Tuesday, new Dover resident Thomas Hoskins told the board that he is in the process of developing a TV show that will headquarter its production in Dover. Hoskins’ plan is to eventually construct a 5,000-square-foot television studio in the town. ...
Students lined up to form a W outside Wardsboro School. That letter may grow in size if plans to build an addition to house a 3-year-old program at the school come to fruition. File photo
DOVER - Wardsboro is investing in its youngest residents. At Monday’s meeting of the River Valleys Unified Union School District Board, Dwight Boerem, who is a member of that board as well as the Wardsboro School Board, said the latter board is likely to approve a $100,000 expenditure out of its...
DOVER - Dying trees, the town’s emergency management plan, cemeteries, and marijuana were all discussed in brief at the Dover Selectboard’s regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday.
Highway commissioner Bobby Holland said that trees along the Valley Trail are dying. “They’re the trees we...
DOVER - “Everything comes to an end.” So said Warren Bartlett this week, reflecting on the end of an era in Dover. After three generations, the Bartlett family is no longer delivering the mail on a route that covers an 80-mile radius comprising Williamsville, Marlboro, South Newfane, and East and...
WILMINGTON - At the bi-town economic development committee’s meeting on Thursday, April 4, committee members discussed Airbnb and other short-term rentals and their impact on the local economy.
The topic came up when committee member Adam Grinold, who is the executive director of the...