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Building repairs, including a new roof for The Dover School, will be up for discussion at the River Valleys district annual meeting on April 30. File photo

River Valleys voters asked to approve $6.8 million in spending at meeting

WARDSBORO - At their regular meeting on Monday, April 2, the River Valleys Union School District discussed the warning for the annual meeting on Tuesday, April 30, at Dover Town Hall at 7 pm. For fiscal year 2025, the proposed budget will be $6,845,217. They also received updates from the...

River Valleys to give voters final say on roof

DOVER - River Valleys Unified School District held their meeting at The Dover School on Monday, March 18. Items on the agenda were adopting a warning for the district meeting and brainstorming ways to finance a replacement for The Dover School’s roof.
Laurie Garland, business manager of...

Twin Valley annual meeting set for February 27

By Mike Eldred
WHITINGHAM- Twin Valley School Board members last week approved a 12-article warning for their annual district meeting.
The school district annual meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 27, at 6 pm in the Twin Valley Middle High School Auditorium in Whitingham. ...

Halifax will return to traditional Town Meeting

HALIFAX- This year Halifax will return to an in-person meeting on the traditional Town Meeting day of Tuesday, March 7.
Town Meeting and voting for town and school officers by Australian ballot starts at 10 am in the Halifax Elementary School multipurpose room. The polls will remain...

Not a lucky day: A tow truck pulls a town of Dover plow truck out of the ditch on Friday, January 13. Ice caused it to slide off the road. Mark Sprague

Dover to return to traditional Town Meeting day

DOVER- Selectboard members voted to warn this year’s Town Meeting for Tuesday, March 7, a return to traditional Town Meeting day following two years of pandemic-related postponements.
The board also set Wednesday, March 1, at 6 pm as the date for their public informational meeting to...

Halifax residents to vote on adopting local option tax

HALIFAX - During their regular meeting on Tuesday evening, the Halifax Selectboard decided to include an article about a 1% local option rooms tax on the 2023 Town Meeting warning; proposed to raise highway department wages by 10%; and heard an update regarding DV Fiber.
State...

School choice vote to take place July 18

READSBORO- School board members set a tentative date for a special school district meeting for voters to weigh in on a proposal to offer school choice for students in seventh and eighth grade, but weren’t able to sign a warrant at their meeting Tuesday evening.
In a phone call with the...

Halifax keeps five-member selectboard, all budgets approved

HALIFAX - Only one article was voted down after Halifax held their Australian ballot on May 3, and Tristan Roberts expects to accept a three-year selectboard position he won by write-in.
Roberts wrote on Front Porch Forum, “Voting to reduce the size of the board eliminates my seat.” He...

Masks were not required during Readsboro's Town Meeting, though votes and board members remained socially distanced.

Readsboro holds in-person Town Meeting

READSBORO- On Monday evening, the town held its first Town Meeting in the school auditorium since 2020, and voters were in the mood to say “yes.” Voters approved every article on the 12-article warning, pausing only for discussion on a few expenditures.
Even with all of the spending...

Left to right: selectboard member Tony Kilbride, moderator Stephanie Moffo, and Langdon James Somerville playing with gavel. Tyler Lederer

Searsburg debates donation

SEARSBURG - Searsburg held both its annual School District Meeting and Town Meeting Monday, starting at 6:30 pm and lasting approximately an hour combined. The night was capped off with a visit from Rep. Laura Sibilia, who updated the town on redistricting and followed up on complaints about road...