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Newbury, Tunbridge among Vermont towns considering leaving school districts Students at the Ripton Elementary School head to the bus at the end of the day on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Modified: 12/28/2020 8:45:38 PM MONTPELIER — At least five towns across Vermont will vote in the coming weeks on whether to secede from their unified school districts, a first wave of district breakups that could herald more. For David Major, the former Westminster School Board ...

Wed, 12/23/2020 - 10:13am meganj By:  Marin Howell AS BRISTOL BAKERY Wholesale has expanded, the business has needed to purchase additional equipment in order to keep up with demand. With the help of a $15,000 BGS grant through the ACEDC, Bristol Bakery Wholesale was able to purchase a pouch-filling machine, which helps them package products at a faster rate. Independent photo/Steve James KEVIN HARPER STARTED out as an entrepreneur in 1977, co-founding the organic c...

Thu, 12/17/2020 - 12:31pm meganj By:  John Flowers RIPTON RESIDENT ERIN Robinson stands with her sons and a sign urging her fellow residents to vote in favor of a Jan. 12 referendum that could see her community begin the process of withdrawing from the Addison Central School District. Weybridge residents will field the same question on Jan. 12. PROPONENTS OF A Jan. 12 vote on whether Ripton should leave the Addison Central School District in order to keep their elem...

Michael Tonn More than 1.6 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far this year; more than 300,000 of them were in the United States, and 100 were in Vermont. The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. Its driving up rates of depression, anxiety and overdose deaths, and causing record numbers of parents, mostly women, to leave the workforce to care for their kids. An...