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This year’s river cleanup is coming up

GREENFIELD, MA – Registration is now open for the Connecticut River Conservancy’s Source to Sea Cleanup. This annual event, now in its 24th year, has grown into one of the largest river cleanups in the country. CRC invites volunteers to safely continue the tradition of getting dirty for cleaner...

Dover grapples with symbol of hate

DOVER - Tabi Freedman was on her way to bring her dog to the vet on Friday morning when she saw something she hoped she wasn’t really seeing. “I thought, ‘Please let me not have seen that,’” she said. It was a swastika painted on the shoulder of Route 100, near Ahmeek Road. It was early,...

View of Mount Snow take last winter

Ski areas prepping for winter, new GMs say

Mount Snow’s summer business is good; Hermitage Club is selling inn properties WILMINGTON - At a Thursday morning meeting of the bi-town economic development committee, comprising members from Wilmington and Dover, the committee heard from the general managers of the valley’s...

Needle in the haystack: Sarah Shippee holds up the single ballot cast for the Progressive Party in Dover. Shippee and her son Wyatt, left, were part of a team of vote counters at Dover Town Hall working into the evening on Tuesday. Randy Capitani

Turnout was high for state primary

DEERFIELD VALLEY- Local election officials say primary turnout was significantly higher than usual in the valley and, despite COVID-19 precautions at the polls, most in-person voting went smoothly.
The high voter turnout in the valley follows the statewide trend. On Wednesday, Vermont...

Readsboro voters agree to break up district

READSBORO- Voters in Readsboro overwhelmingly ratified Halifax’s withdrawal from the Southern Valley Unified Union School District, sending what will essentially be the dissolution of the union district to the state board of education for approval.
Readsboro’s vote by Australian ballot...

Remote learning option affects the number of classroom teachers

READSBORO- Southern Valley School District may have to give up one classroom teacher to support a remote learning option this fall, board members learned at a special meeting Tuesday evening.
The district wouldn’t actually lose the teacher, but the teacher would be assigned to teach...

Halifax may get a free WiFi hot spot with the cooperation of SVUUSD

HALIFAX- The town may get a free WiFi hot spot after all, with the cooperation of the Southern Valley Unified Union School District board. Previously, a proposed hot spot using the school’s subsidized high-speed internet connection had been rejected. At last week’s SVUUSD board meeting, however...

Vermont Education Secretary Dan French

State officials say that school reopenings necessary and will be safe

MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott and state officials sought to reassure Vermonters during a Tuesday press conference that a return to in-person education in the state is necessary and safe.
Gov. Scott said in-person education was vital for working parents, and for Vermont children. “There are...

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...

Wardsboro, Dover to offer in-person and home study in fall

DEERFIELD VALLEY - This week, the River Valleys Unified Union School District, comprising Dover and Wardsboro, released its school reopening plans for fall. Both schools will offer in-person instruction four days per week, with Wednesdays a home day for all. A “school-supported home study” option...