MUHS selects graduation speakers

Vivian Ross and Nora Wooten, both members of the Class of 2023, will address their classmates at the Middlebury Union High School graduation on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Memorial Sports Center.

Camila Blanco of Salisbury has been selected to receive the 2023 LIVE UNITED Volunteer Scholarship Award. Fluent in both Spanish and English, Camila served as a volunteer at Open Door Clinic as their receptionist.

I am afraid I have to disagree with both Senator Hardy and Angelo Lynn on the feasibility of their notion of expanding dollars for PreK and moving all 4-year-olds into a public school setting.

I’m writing to bring awareness to a challenge our community faces regarding finding staffing to support aftercare and summer programming.

Clear blue skies, vibrant green foliage and a sea of black caps on Sunday made for a picturesque ending to what had been a memorable and, at times, tumultuous undergraduate experience for the Middlebury College Class of 2023. 

It appears that at its heart the situation around the Dunns and the ACSD are complaints from two employees about their supervisors that would not have warranted a broader public discussion if they had not forced it into the spotlight.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board is exploring whether to allow parents to send their children to any of the four elementary schools in the district, not the just the one in the town where they reside.

The Addison Central School District board on Tuesday, May 30, agreed to make a contract offer to one of two finalists vying to become the district’s interim superintendent.

For the sake of transparency with the public, it would have been better for the Addison Central School District board to release the names of the interim superintendent search candidates prior to announcing the hiring decision.

Aaron Boynton will take the reins at BES in July. The Brandon resident currently serves as principal of Berlin Elementary School in Washington County. 

One of Shannon Bohler’s favorite rewards from directing Middlebury Union High School student musicals has been seeing the young actors receive accolades from the audience after the curtain has dropped.

A lot has changed since Mary Pat Roche first began working at Beeman Elementary School 27 years ago.

The Addison Central School District board has narrowed its interim superintendent search down to two unnamed finalists from an original crop of 16 applicants.

Thank you to the students, staff and Monica Desrochers of the Addison Northwest School District who put on the Together in Belonging Community Discussion with students this past Wednesday evening in the Vergennes Union High School library.

My school is strictly preschool; taking away all of the 4-year-olds to public school and changing or limiting the UPK funding for the 3-year-olds would have put our 44-year-old school out of business.