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WILMINGTON - Voices of Hope held its monthly meeting on Zoom on Tuesday, August 25. At the meeting, Robin Rieske, a prevention consultant with the Department of Health, said overdose deaths are up from a year ago. In addition, town nurse Jennifer Fitzgerald briefed the group about an upcoming...
WILMINGTON- At a special meeting Monday evening, Twin Valley School Board members asked Wings program directors to move forward with a proposal for a Wednesday remote learning supervision program for elementary students. 
Under the supervisory union’s hybrid school schedule this year,...
WHITINGHAM- Twin Valley School Board members discussed the district’s strategy to meet requirements under a federal program that will provide free meals for every student at a special meeting Monday evening.
 But meals won’t be free beginning this year.  Or maybe they will, but through a...
MONTPELIER - At a press conference on Friday, Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine said Vermont will not follow new CDC guidance about testing and travel. In addition, Levine said guidance on flu vaccination, particularly for younger Vermonters, will be forthcoming in the next several...
By Mike Eldred
READSBORO- Southern Valley School District will not offer a pre-K program this year, board members decided at a special meeting on Thursday, August 20. The board’s decision to suspend the pre-K program for a year followed a discussion at a meeting Wednesday evening and a...
Sends Airbnb guest into a locked bedroom
This bear was photographed lounging in the backyard of a home in Whitingham. Bears often target homes for food because of odors that attract them. File photo
WILMINGTON - A recent trip to Vermont took an unlikely turn for some guests of an Airbnb. On Sunday, August 16, a guest at an Airbnb on Darah Loop entered the kitchen of the house she was staying in to find a guest she hadn’t invited on her trip with her: a black bear with two cubs.
Game...
By Lauren Harkawik
MONTPELIER - At a press conference on Tuesday, Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine reported new cases of COVID-19 and warned that the virus is still “very present and widespread.” Levine also commented on several recent global developments with the virus and...

Dover town clerk Andy McLean and his dog Rae, also known as the “town dog,” outside the town office building on Wednesday. McLean says he has never seen a year quite like this one, in large part because of the pandemic. LH
Note: This is part of a series of articles about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily life for people in the Deerfield Valley.
DOVER - “Never in my wildest dreams,” is how Dover Town Clerk Andy McLean answers a question about whether he could have imagined how...
DEERFIELD VALLEY - The Deerfield Valley Communications Union District held a meeting on Wednesday, August 17, at which it adopted a preliminary budget. The district also discussed its original plan to hire a consultant, which looks like it will not be possible, and said a business plan from...
WARDSBORO - At an emergency meeting held on Zoom Friday morning, the River Valleys Unified Union School District Board voted to expend $14,700 on air purifiers for each classroom in the district’s two schools, Wardsboro Elementary and the Dover School.
The expenditure comes after a lengthy...

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