Courtesy photo of Blue Bird e-bus in California.
Vermont Business Magazine The Agency of Natural Resources electric bus pilot program has moved into its next phase. The participating school districts and transit agency have selected their buses, which are due to arrive in Vermont at the end of this year. In December 2019, Barre Unified Union School District in partnership with their bus contractor, Student Transportation of America (STA); Champlain Valley School District; Franklin West Supervisory Union; and Marble Valley Regional Transit District (MVRTD), were chosen from a competitive pool of applicants to receive Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust funds to test the use of electric buses in Vermont.
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Vermont Business Magazine The Snelling Center for Government has announced the graduates of the Vermont School Leadership Project Class of 2020:
Stacy Anderson, Director of Special Services, Barre Unified Union School District
Brandy Brown, Co-Principal, Milton Middle School
Michael Clark, Superintendent, Grand Isle Supervisory Union
Ryan Dudley, 6th Grade Math/Science Teacher, Albert D Lawton Intermediate School
Jeff Evans, Director of Learning and Innovation, Champlain Valley School District
Heather Freeman, Director of Student Services, Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union
Ashley Hanlon, Director, Addison Wayfinder Experience
Jennifer Hulse, Director of Student Support Services, Lamoille North Supervisory Union
Alison Kidder, Director of Student Services, Orange East Supervisory Union
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BURLINGTON â Mentor Vermont has awarded 24 grants, totaling $347,850, to support youth mentoring programs throughout the state. The funds will support more than 100 new and existing program sites, and nearly 1,500 adult-to-youth mentor pairs in communities across Vermont.
Mentor Vermont awarded two grants to agencies that support youth living in Bennington County: a grant of $25,100 to The DREAM Program, a statewide mentoring agency that pairs college students from Bennington College with youth living in affordable housing communities; and a $10,000 grant to United Counseling Service to support the Mentoring at UCS program, which supports youth throughout Bennington County.
A bounty of warm clothes
A new campaign this fall collected hundreds of coats, hats, mittens, boots and other warm clothes to meet the needs of students and families identified as in need by counselors at the elementary schools in Shelburne, Charlotte and Hinesburg and at Champlain Valley Union High School.
Donations poured into donation sites in all three towns, and then Rotary members tackled the huge challenge of ensuring that all the clothing was clean and ready for its new wearers. The generosity of Joe and Brian Precourt made it possible as they generously donated use of their washers and dryers at the Wash Shed in the Shelburne Shopping Park for teams of Rotary Club members to clean large loads of clothing on many November and December days.