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Health coverage expanded

WILMINGTON- Selectboard members discussed health care coverage at their regular meeting Tuesday, November 17. Reacting to an employee request, board members discussed extending eligibility for the employee family health care coverage to domestic partners.
Wilmington Finance Officer...

Communication district will use grant to study poles, rebrands itself

DEERFIELD VALLEY - At its meeting on Wednesday, September 16, the governing board of the Deerfield Valley Communications Union District said the district will use most of a $100,000 grant to conduct a pole study in the district’s towns that are most in need of connectivity. In addition, vice...

Readsboro School

Readsboro school to get repairs, district nixes contact sports

READSBORO- Readsboro School will get HVAC repairs next month, and students in Southern Valley Unified Union School District won’t participate in contact sports this season, board members decided at a special meeting Tuesday evening.
Windham Southwest Supervisory Union Facilities Manager...

Gov. Phil Scott announces child care grant, school sports to resume

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott announced a grant program to support child care providers at his press briefing Friday, and assured parents and students that fall school sports would commence with the beginning of the school year.
The child care "Operational Relief Grant" program is funded...

Call a cop, get a social worker, too

WILMINGTON- The town’s police department will soon have a part-time social worker to respond to calls with officers, Wilmington Police Chief Matt Murano told selectboard members at their regular meeting Tuesday evening. Murano said he had been searching for opportunities to get mental health and...

Dover suspends commercial assistance program

This article has been updated to clarify the number of CEAP payments businesses have received. DOVER - At its virtual meeting on Tuesday, the Dover Selectboard voted unanimously to suspend its Commercial Emergency Assistance Program (CEAP). In other matters, the board was told it will need to...

Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith

Child care can restart June 1 and summer camps may reopen at their discretion

MONTPELIER- Childcare providers can begin operating on June 1, and day camps and overnight camps will be able to operate this summer, Gov. Phil Scott announced today.
"I'm very pleased today to make several announcements regarding child care and summer day camps," Gov. Scott said. "To...

Dover set to send checks to businesses

DOVER - At a virtual meeting of the Dover Selectboard Tuesday, the board approved $77,940 in commercial emergency assistance funds. The board engaged in lengthy discussion about eligibility for the program and how much it should spend toward it. Ultimately another $50,000 was added to the...

Ultrasound project spearheads EMS technology use across state

Dover-based fund contributes grant to help point-of-care project get off the ground BRATTLEBORO - At a press event on Wednesday, Marc Schauber, of Dover, presented two grants to Rescue Inc. on behalf of the Emergency Medical Services Fund Inc. The grants will fund a two-year...

COSU project coordinator Chad Simmons speaks at the Latchis Theater on Tuesday.

Consortium outlines plans to use grant to help fight substance abuse

BRATTLEBORO - Members of the Windham County Consortium on Substance Abuse (COSU) gave a presentation to the public on Tuesday about a three-year, $1 million HRSA grant the group received for implementation of expansion of rural substance use services, with a large focus on opioid use disorder. ...