Whitingham

CUD adds three more towns, now off and running

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”...

Broadband group holds virtual meeting on CUD

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...

Twin Valley board sees big change, no clerk elected

WHITINGHAM- Twin Valley Unified Union School District’s budget passed by a wide margin in voting Tuesday, and Whitingham will send an all new-slate of school directors to the Twin Valley School Board.
In Whitingham, all three school board seats were up for election this year. Christy...

Voters pull trigger on gun support

WHITINGHAM- Voters at Town Meeting approved 37 articles and a pair of nonbinding resolutions, including a motion to declare the town’s support for the Vermont Constitution’s right to bear arms. But voters stopped short of declaring the town a “gun sanctuary” due to confusion over the wording of a...

Concerns raised about TV school budget, education

WILMINGTON- Whitingham and Wilmington residents gathered under the leaking ceiling in the Twin Valley Elementary School cafetorium Tuesday evening for Twin Valley School District’s budget information and annual meeting.
At a regular board meeting held earlier in the evening, board members...

Whitingham candidates meet voters

WHITINGHAM- Voters gathered at the Whitingham Municipal Center Wednesday evening to meet candidates running for town offices at Town Meeting this year.
Moderator Leon Corse kicked off the introductions by telling voters why he’s running for another term. “Someone needs to do it, and...

Group chewing its CUD over lack of broadband

WHITINGHAM — A group that has named itself the “Deerfield Valley Broadband Working Group” met on Wednesday, December 11, to discuss the possibility of forming a communications union district (CUD) and to hear about ways that groups in other regions have successfully implemented broadband...

Reed Mellinger at his desk at Twin Valley in August. He resigned this week, citing personal reasons. File photo

New principal resigns after six months

WHITINGHAM- School officials announced Wednesday that Twin Valley Middle/High School Principal Reed Mellinger will resign from his position this month.
According to a release from the Windham Southwest Supervisory Union, Mellinger’s resignation, for “personal reasons of an urgent nature...

School, town boards talk about working together

WILMINGTON- The Whitingham Selectboard joined Twin Valley School Board members at Twin Valley Elementary School Tuesday evening, November 19, to discuss cooperation between the two boards.
Selectboard member Wayne Corse said his board hoped to work out a deal with the school for use of...

Petitions to dissolve Act 46 merger in the works

HALIFAX – At a recent work session of the Southern Valley Unified Union School District, chair Homer “Chum” Sumner delivered an update on plans to dissolve the district.
Sumner said “There are petitions in both towns (Halifax and Readsboro) asking for special Town Meetings.”
The...