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TOWNSHEND â With money running out for the Sino-American cultural arts exchange program known as Journey East, Leland & Gray Middle and High School Principal Bob Thibault presented two options: the West River Education District could bring someone on for a short-term basis to explore sustainability, or cut the program.
âWe are estimating that in order to move forward that weâre really looking at a two-year commitment from the board and that would be for school years 2023 and 2024,â he said at the WRED board meeting held remotely on June 7. âThe trip is happening next year. Thereâs money for that, and then the following year we would have funds to do the hosting component as well.â