BRATTLEBORO â Eight candidates have come forward for three Select Board seats opening up in March.
Board member Ian Goodnow is finishing his first one-year term and seeking a three-year term. Rikki Risatti, who ran in last yearâs election, also is on the March 2 ballot for the three-year seat.
âIt has been a challenging but fulfilling year on the board,â Goodnow said. âI am humbled having had the opportunity to meet and work with so many dedicated individuals who are striving to make Brattleboro the best place it can. I love the town and I love the work of the board, and I want to do it for the next three years. And I hope that Brattleboro wants me to do that work, too.â
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BRATTLEBORO â A $10,000 âJenn Murphy Scholarshipâ will be awarded to a Brattleboro Union High School senior, this year and for the next five years, with the funding coming from an anonymous donor who was motivated by the momentum of the Jenn Murphy Scholarship Facebook Group. The money will be going to the newly formed nonprofit, the Jenn Murphy Scholarship Foundation.
The Jennifer Murphy Scholarship was started 25 years ago by high school friends of Jennifer Murphy and was, at the time, a $1,000 award. As the funds ran out eventually, two of Jennâs best friends growing up, Emily Petit and Stephanie Bonin, recently co-founded a new scholarship, the Jenn Murphy Scholarship. It was created for a 15-year-old girl, Jenn Murphy, whose life was tragically cut short but whose memory will continue to live on through this scholarship in her name. Jenn was known as a talented dancer, taking classes at the Brattleboro S
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WESTMINSTER â A group of Vermont parents is suing the state and three school districts, including Windham Northeast Supervisory Union, over âunequal access to education.â
According to the Liberty Justice Center, which is representing four families, including Brianna Schaefer, of Grafton, and Sara and Louis Vitale, of Athens, the stateâs educational tuition system âviolates the state constitution by allowing children residing in certain school districts to attend the school of their choice and denying the same right to others.â
The Liberty Justice Center, according to its website, has a team of lawyers who âfight to protect students, families, entrepreneurs and other Americans whose fundamental constitutional rights have been violated.â
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The Brattleboro Union High School Music Departmentâs Merry Mulch Christmas tree collection program is in full swing. This program, in its 30th year, is endorsed by the Vermont Department of Agriculture as well as the New Hampshire/Vermont Christmas Tree Association.
For a $10 donation, members of the band and chorus will transport undecorated trees from homes to a community garden in West Brattleboro where they will be chipped into mulch to be used by the gardeners. Since the town does not offer curbside pick-up of trees, the service saves residents the hassle of transporting their own trees.
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DUMMERSTON â For Ron Svec, itâs been an honor and a pleasure to serve his community as a veterinarian.
âI am so very grateful for all that I have been able to do, with all of the people I have met and I have helped or that have helped me, for all of the wonderful creatures I have met along the way, and the opportunities life has provided me along the way,â said Svec, who is wrapping up his 37-year career at Vermont New Hampshire Vet Clinic in East Dummerston. âI have truly been blessed.â