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DVFiber serves the under-served

SOUTHERN VERMONT- DVFiber, a communications union district of 20 towns, seeks to build a fiber-to-the-premises network to more than 10,000 unserved and underserved households and businesses. DVFiber recently released a request for proposal in search of private sector partners to develop a public-...

Program offers $1,000 stipends to CCV students

VERMONT- The Vermont Community Foundation announced that it has partnered with the Community College of Vermont to expand pathways to promising jobs for high school seniors across the state. To help the Vermont high school class of 2022 chart and start their career training, the Community...

Journalism scholarships offered

VERMONT- The New England Newspaper and Press Association awards up to 10 scholarships each year to aspiring journalists through the Journalism Education Foundation of New England. Applications are open through the deadline of March 12, 2021. The foundation strives to encourage and support young...

This Week in History

10 years ago:
Wilmington officials presented a plan for a new town garage to replace the circa 1963 town garage on Beaver Street. With $647,000 in surplus and other funds the town had salted away in a garage capital fund, the proposed bond for the almost $1 million garage...

Grants for professional development

WINDHAM COUNTY- The Professional Development Grant Program is the newest offering for members of Southern Vermont Young Professionals. The Southern Vermont Young Professionals is a workforce initiative of Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies and the Brattleboro Development Credit...

Sheriff creates county advisory panel

NEWFANE- Windham County Sheriff Mark Anderson has established the Windham County Sheriff’s Advisory, a group of county residents who will advise him on community needs, interests, and concerns as they relate to the department’s operations. The advisory has no statutory or oversight responsibility...

Aging in Place- Thriving on change

In 1951, American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr first published what has come to be called the Serenity Prayer, which is extensively quoted in Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. It reads “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the...

Locals make CCV dean’s list

VERMONT- The following students at the Community College of Vermont were among those named to the fall 2020 dean’s list: Lauren Shott, of Stratton; Codie Wershoven and Jennifer Winte, of Whitingham; and Tristen Dionne and Izaak Park, of Wilmington. This honor recognizes full-time students...

Hofstra announces local A-listers

HEMPSTEAD, NY- Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the fall 2020 dean’s list for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the dean’s list.
The following students have been...

UNH students earn recognition

DURHAM, NH- The following students have been named to the dean’s list at the University of New Hampshire for the fall 2020 semester: Katrina Ewens, of Londonderry, VT, earning honors; Sienna Sperling, of South Newfane, VT, earning high honors; and Alyson Jacobs, of Stratton, VT, earning...