Two events having to do with "consolidation" in public education this week show that the debate boils down to what we gain versus what we give up by joining two or more schools together.
The Vermont Commissioner of Education is considering whether to recommend to the state Board of Education that schools in Essex and Essex Junction consolidate into one supervisory union.
Lukas LaRiviere Age: 17 School: BFA Fairfax Parents: Neal LaRiviere and Dolores Eckert Hometown: Fairfax Top 5 accomplishments: Selected for National Honor Society, on honor roll for four years, 3.8 GPA, traveled to England with school group, member of Ultimate Frisbee Club.
Girls on the Run Vermont is in the process of expanding its roster to 115 sites statewide, and volunteer coaches are needed in the areas of Westford, Essex, Hinesburg and Charlotte.
The two roosters prowling off South Williams Street on Friday were not the first ones seen -- or heard -- in this settled neighborhood at the west edge of the University of Vermont campus.
It might qualify as a symbol: Frank Ammirato Jr.'s Westford barn emerged last week as Vermont's first site for a new incentive program for photovoltaic power.
Several schools in Essex school districts, including schools in Essex Junction and Westford, have postponed H1N1 flu clinics due to a shortage of the vaccine.
More than two years after critics first voiced concerns that tiny FairPoint lacked the resources to take over Verizon's Northern New England land-line business, some of their predictions are proving true.
Deep budget cuts at the Department of Corrections could force officials to slash the number of frontline officers overseeing nearly 8,000 people on either probation or parole in Vermont.
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