DEERFIELD VALLEY - At its meeting on Tuesday, the Deerfield Valley Communications Union District added three new member towns: Dover, Stamford, and Jamaica. Matters discussed at the meeting included meetings the governing board is holding with various vendors, a proposed “Broadband Action Plan”...
Press conference highlights problems faced by schools around the state
MONTPELIER- School officials from across the state joined legislators at a press conference Wednesday afternoon to demand the Legislature take action to implement recommendations in the Agency of Education’s...
DEERFIELD VALLEY - On Wednesday, members of the Deerfield Valley Broadband Working Group convened by phone and video conference. The virtual meeting was held in place of a regularly scheduled meeting due to concerns about COVID-19 (coronavirus). During the meeting, the group discussed next steps...
Drivers stranded after being routed over Higley Hill road
MARLBORO - It was close to 10 pm on Sunday, December 29, as an ice storm was mid-fury, when Victoria Osborne, owner of the Colonel Williams Inn, put out an urgent plea on a Facebook group dedicated to sharing road...
MARLBORO - Several people are working to find ways to stop an announced merger between Marlboro College and Emerson College, which, if it goes forward, will effectively close Marlboro College’s campus at the end of the 2020 spring semester.
Late last week, a press release announced “...
Sunset on Marlboro: Under a plan unveiled last week Marlboro College will partner with Boston-based Emerson College. Part of that agreement will close the local campus and allow students and faculty to transfer to Emerson. File photo
MARLBORO- Last week, Marlboro College announced a tentative partnership deal with Emerson College. Under the deal, Marlboro’s programs, students, and faculty will be relocated to Emerson’s Boston campus. Emerson will rename their Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies for...
MARLBORO- Under a tentative partnership deal with Emerson College announced last week, Marlboro College will close its Potash Hill campus in Marlboro at the end of the current school year.
News of the closure came as a shock to Marlboro residents, many of whom have longstanding...
MARLBORO- Within minutes of Marlboro College’s announcement of their deal with Emerson College, Marlboro alumni took to the internet to express their disbelief.
When the announcement was made, there were at least three active Marlboro College alumni groups on Facebook, including the...
MARLBORO - In July, Marlboro College announced that it had signed a letter of intent to merge with the University of Bridgeport. This week, the college announced that negotiations are off and the merger will not move forward.
A statement from Marlboro College sent early in the week said...
MARLBORO - Marlboro College announced last week that it had signed a “letter of intent” to merge with the University of Bridgeport. According to Kevin F. F. Quigley, president of Marlboro College, the merger is a means of keeping the school, which has faced financial and enrollment difficulties...