Login
Skip to content
Home

Category: BristolSyndicate content

Shop infuses ice cream with unique flavor combinations

Posted on June 28, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



BRISTOL — On one morning last week in the bright white interior of LuLu, the new Bristol ice cream shop, Martha Mack and Linda Harmon listed the day’s flavors on a hanging spool of paper.

“Basil,” Mack told her mother, who wrote out each flavor in colorful marker. “Caramelized banana. Curried peanut. Toasted coconut. Strawberry and tarragon sorbet.”

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Teachers and negotiators strike ANeSU contract deal

Posted on June 14, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — After almost two years of negotiation, the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union’s negotiating committee and teachers’ union this week came to an agreement on a teachers’ contract.

The exact terms of the new contract, which were ironed out Monday night in executive session negotiations, haven’t yet been released. But Lanny Smith, lead negotiator for the school boards, said that the terms will be made public after the first school board votes on the new contracts.

full story

Mount Abe grads make poetic exit from school

Posted on June 14, 2012 |
By John Flowers



Mount-Abe-Grad.jpg

BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School on Saturday sent 143 freshly minted graduates into the world with good wishes wrapped in prose, song and the letter “P.”

“Prepare yourself for a panoramic, pragmatic, participatory promenade through powerful, profound prose that may seem pedantic, and please refrain from propelling projectiles until the pronounced peroration point prevails,” graduation speaker Scott Beckwith, an MAUHS social studies teacher, urged the seniors in an alliterative tongue twister.

full story

Bristol board plans Howden Hall upgrade

Posted on June 14, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — The oldest town building in Bristol, Howden Hall, is about to get what officials say are some much-needed upgrades.

With roughly $75,000 in the town’s Howden Hall Capital Reserve Fund, the Howden Hall Committee — with the selectboard’s approval — is moving ahead with electrical upgrades, moisture reduction measures, weatherization improvements and possibly some wheel-chair accessibility measures.

At a meeting last week, the Bristol selectboard hired project manager Ed Hanson at a rate of $50 an hour to oversee the process.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Mt. Abraham Union High School Graduation 2012

Posted on June 12, 2012 |
By John McCright



mtabegrad6283.jpg

full story

Bristol board opens up; new planner keeps seat

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — Katie Raycroft-Meyer’s seat on the planning commission is safe for now.

The Bristol selectboard on Monday decided to keep Raycroft-Meyer on the commission following a vote two weeks earlier that put her seat in jeopardy. After speaking with her and a dozen citizens on Monday, Selectboard Chair Peeker Heffernan, selectwoman Carol Wells and selectman Joel Bouvier made this decision with just enough board members to hold a quorum.

full story

ANeSU negotiations back on tap

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — For almost two years, Addison Northeast Supervisory Union (ANeSU) teachers have been working without a collective bargaining agreement. Representatives from the ANeSU teachers’ union are hoping to reach an agreement on Monday and shed the imposed conditions that they’ve been working under since January 2011.

The negotiations, slated for Monday, will be held behind closed doors in executive session.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Class cultivates food for thought

Posted on June 4, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



mtabegarden7128.jpg

BRISTOL — Last week, through a muggy, overcast haze, science teacher Gabe Hamilton and his sophomore Biology of Foods class diligently tended the Mount Abraham Union High School garden.

full story

Mt. Abe restructuring its leadership ranks

Posted on May 28, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School board has reconfigured the leaderships at the Bristol school, a move that could cut costs.

The change comes as Co-Principal Leon Wheeler next year will leave to become principal at Winooski High School and Dean of Students Nancy Yannette also will leave Mount Abe.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Bristol selectboard OKs water, sewer budgets

Posted on May 28, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — The Bristol selectboard kicked off its Monday meeting by holding annual public hearings for the water district, sewer district and landfill.

All three spending plans for next fiscal year reflect decreases from this year. Next year’s spending level for:

•  The landfill was set at $155,250, down 1.5 percent from this year’s budgeted spending of $157,600.

•  The water district was set at $247,700, down 5 percent from this year’s 260,700.

The full text of this article is only available to online subscribers. To gain access to this article, learn more about our online subscription rates and options.

full story

Addy Indy News Digest

The latest in Addison County news, every Monday and Thursday.

Connect with us

Comments