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DOVER- Selectboard members held a Town Meeting informational meeting Tuesday evening, led by town moderator Richard Werner. 
Dover’s Town Meeting is warned for Tuesday, May 17, at 10 am in Carinthia Base Lodge at Mount Snow.  
Werner started the meeting with a reminder for people to...
WHITINGHAM- Twin Valley School Board members discussed staffing efforts at their regular meeting Tuesday evening.  
Twin Valley Elementary School Principal Rebecca Fillion said she has posted several staff positions to be filled for next year, with varying degrees of success.  One viable...
WILMINGTON- A petitioned revote on a Town Meeting ballot question to allow cannabis retail sales in town drew a remarkably large turnout Tuesday.  For the second time, the measure passed by a wide margin in a 276-136 vote.  
Christian Engel, who owns Ratu’s Liquor & Market with his...

Attendees at Thursday evening's informational meeting
WILMINGTON- On Thursday, May 5, Wilmington held an informational meeting in preparation for the revote of Article 20 on the March Town Meeting warning, authorizing cannabis retailers.
At the informational meeting, over 50 virtual and in-person community members discussed the positive and...
WILMINGTON- The Windham Southwest Supervisory Union Executive Board discussed a districtwide, and perhaps statewide, teacher shortage at their regular meeting Monday evening.
Superintendent Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll asked school principals to describe the teacher and staff shortages...

Gov. Scott at his administration's weekly press conference Tuesday
Women’s medical decisions to remain “private and protected” MONTPELIER- Gov. Phil Scott commented on a leaked draft Supreme Court decision, and state health officials urged Vermonters to evaluate their own risk of contracting the BA2 variant of COVID-19.
Gov. Scott...

Ratus owners Christian Engle (pictured) and Jennifer Betit-Engel petitioned the initial Town Meeting vote to allow retail cannabis sales in Wilmington.
WILMINGTON- At their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday evening, the Wilmington Selectboard discussed a revote, scheduled for next week, of a Town Meeting ballot question. They also took care of housekeeping items. 
Article 20 of this year’s Town Meeting warning, “Shall the town authorize...
VERMONT - On Thursday, the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network held an Equity in Education conference over Zoom. Student and teacher panelists answered questions on advancing racial equity in the public education system.
Within Vermont, acts and accusations of racism in public schools have...

Matt Martyn, left, and Tammy Bates Amelia Nick
DOVER- Resignations, open positions, and job sharing were all discussed at Monday’s River Valleys Unified School District board meeting. Public input from the annual meeting and the solar panel array were also discussed. 
The board accepted, with regret, the resignations of two employees...
WILMINGTON- Development review members met with Gus Metcalfe Tuesday evening, for a hearing on his application for low-impact RV camping at his property on Route 9 West.
At one time, Metcalfe’s property, formerly the home of The Christmas Barn retail store, was also a vacation rental cabin...

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