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BENNINGTON â An online Southern Vermont Jobs and Climate Forum highlighted both the economic challenges posed by climate change and the opportunities for innovative business owners who anticipate what a changing climate will foster.
Sponsored by the Vermont Council on Rural Development and the Vermont Climate Economy Action Team, the June 24 event included panelists Robert Stevens of Stevens & Associates; Stephanie Lane, executive director of Shires Housing; and Jesse McDougall of Studio Hill Farm in Shaftsbury.
The forum was moderated by Jon Copans, director of VCRDâs Climate Economy Model Communities Program.
VCRD Executive Director Paul Costello said climate change is showing up in the economy in vivid and dramatic ways, âand it is imperative that we have to build creative solutionsâ to deal with it.
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BENNINGTON â Fireworks, bell-ringing, world-class music and a reading of the Declaration of Independence are among the events scheduled for Sunday, Independence Day. The forecast for the day calls for a high temperature in the low 70s, with a 60-percent chance of showers, or perhaps a thunderstorm. Some of these events may be weather-dependent.
ROTARY HOLDS 8TH ANNUAL JULY 4 BELL RINGING
The Bennington Rotary Club will celebrate Independence Day with a reading from the Declaration of Independence and the ringing the shipâs bell from the USS Bennington.
The ceremony takes place at 1:45 p.m. on Sunday, July 4, on the lawn of the Bennington Town Offices.
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The legislative task force established to proposed changes in the stateâs per-pupil weighting factors for K-12 education funding set its agenda on Tuesday, naming state Rep. Emilie Kornheiser of Brattleboro as a co-chair and setting an aggressive agenda for addressing the complex issues surrounding education finance in Vermont.
The committee was formed to draft legislation for implementing new per-pupil weighting factors generated in a 2019 University of Vermont study. The study found that the per-pupil weights used by the state â a means of addressing the inequity in the stateâs school funding formula employed in the wake of the Brigham decision â werenât based on empirical data, and had perpetuated rather than addressed funding inequity.
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BENNINGTON â While the rewards of reading are manifold, they are typically intangible, like broadened knowledge or vocabulary.
Parker Bruso, who recently completed the fifth grade at Molly Stark Elementary School, likely absorbed those sorts of benefits by reading a multitude of books during the school year â but, as the schoolâs top reader in grades 3 through 5, he also won something tactile: a new Chromebook.
Bruso was one of two students â the other was a student in a separate K-2 category â to win a laptop through the Paddington Bear Award program at the end of the school year.