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DEERFIELD VALLEY- Although no town in the valley was able to hold a traditional floor meeting on Town Meeting day, at least four conducted this year’s Town Meeting by Australian ballot, while one town, Readsboro, held elections and voted on school warnings by Australian ballot Tuesday.
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HALIFAX- The Halifax budget informational meeting and candidates’ forum was held on a well-attended conference call Tuesday evening. The five candidates for the selectboard gave their resumés and experience before addressing questions. Incumbent Mitchell Green, Amy Kamstra, Peter Silverberg, and...
HALIFAX – Voters raised questions about highway department spending, trust in their town leaders, and how to audit the town’s books during a lengthy informational meeting Wednesday evening. It was the second of two call-in remote meetings. The first was held Tuesday evening and featured a...
HALIFAX- On Monday, the Halifax School Board held an informational meeting via conference call in lieu of their annual meetings this year. Prior to the meeting, an annual report had been released to the public. This informational meeting was held to answer any questions the voters may have prior...

Moderator Leon Corse, left, and Mark Hanna during a paper ballot vote at Whitingham’s 2020 Town Meeting. There will be no in-person meeting this year. File/RC
DEERFIELD VALLEY- In light of pandemic restrictions and concerns, towns and school districts are finding new strategies for conducting annual Town Meetings.
Some towns and school districts have postponed their meetings, but haven’t set dates or decided on a format for their Town Meetings...
DEERFIELD VALLEY- On Tuesday, voters in Halifax and Readsboro elected their first town school board members following the dissolution of the Southern Valley Unified Union School District last fall. 
Under state statute, Vermont Secretary of State James Condos was required to warn special...

Rep. John Gannon

WILMINGTON- A new legislative session starts next week, and unlike past years, legislators won’t be heading to Montpelier to be sworn in and take their assigned seats.
For the first several weeks, at least, legislators will participate remotely.  Windham-6 Rep. John Gannon, of...
READSBORO- A discussion of the disposition of Southern Valley Unified Union School District’s debts and surpluses that will remain after the district ceases operations proved controversial at the board’s Wednesday, December 16, meeting.  
On June 30, 2021, the union district will cease to...
HALIFAX- Halifax members of the Southern Valley Union School District met as a subcommittee to review a draft of the proposed 2022 Halifax School budget, the first town school district budget since the dissolution of the union school district was approved earlier this year. 
The...
READSBORO- Readsboro school board members, meeting as a subcommittee of the Southern Valley Unified Union School District Board Monday evening, got their first glimpse of a proposed 2022 budget for Readsboro School. 
The news may be good for Readsboro taxpayers.  Although the figures are...

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