This Week in History: April 3 - 10


People were lined up in the Bank Park pergola to watch the 2011 Memorial Day parade in Wilmington. File

10 years ago:
The Vermont Legislature was debating a bill that would mandate school consolidation, cap school budget increases, and end so-called “unfunded mandates” by the Legislature. But when the bill struggled to attract enough support, lawmakers offered amendments to make the bill more palatable. A ban on paying public funds for tuition to out-of-state schools was scrapped, and one amendment even proposed making all of the bill’s provisions voluntary.
15 years ago:

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