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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — The high per-pupil costs for the 315 students attending Bellows Falls Union High School attracted attention from a former school board member Wednesday night. James McAuliffe of Bellows Falls, the former board member, questioned the current board and principal on why more hadn’t been done to bring per-pupil costs down and avoid the financial penalty cap established by the Vermont Agency of Education. Principal Christopher Hodsden told a Zoom gathering of about two dozen people, most of them either school employees o...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — The Bellows Falls Union High School Board narrowly approved a proposed budget for the 2021-22 school year Monday night that shows a 2 percent decrease over the current budget. But three school directors almost defeated the budget with their insistence that the board know what the actual impact will be on taxpayers before the budget is approved. On a 4-3 vote, the board approved the proposed $7,502,808 million budget, which Principal Christopher Hodsden said is a two percent decrease over the current budget of $7.655,000....

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — With Westminster residents voting overwhelming to return to their traditional school district, the focus now turns to Grafton and Athens. In a modest turnout for a special town meeting, Westminster voters voted 200-58 in favor of leaving the consolidated elementary school district, forced upon all three towns by the Vermont Board of Education. In a second companion vote, 219-35, voters agreed to the steps needed for the local school district to re-establish its own Westminster School Board, and assuming ownership of its ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WESTMINSTER — A group of Vermont parents is suing the state and three school districts, including Windham Northeast Supervisory Union, over “unequal access to education.” According to the Liberty Justice Center, which is representing four families, including Brianna Schaefer, of Grafton, and Sara and Louis Vitale, of Athens, the state’s educational tuition system “violates the state constitution by allowing children residing in certain school districts to attend the school of their choice and denying the same right...

1 of 6 Stacey Reeve, of Westminster, Vt., receives her ballot from the Westminster Town Hall during a special vote Tuesday on whether to withdraw from the elementary union school district that was formed two years ago under Act 46. Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer Stacey Reeve, of Westminster, Vt., fills out her ballot during a special vote Tuesday on whether to withdraw from the elementary union school district that was formed two years ago under Act 46. Kristopher Radder, Brattleboro Reformer Alma Beals. of Westminster, Vt., receives her ballot from the Westm...