Venable-Novak, Makleff & Orzech win ACSD seats

Addison Central School District voters on Tuesday decided a five-person race for three of Middlebury’s seven seats on the ACSD board, choosing Jess Venable-Novak, Ron Makleff and incumbent Steve Orzech to fill those three-year spots.

Buoyed by good news on projected education property tax rates, a majority of Addison County residents supported their local school budgets on Town Meeting Day.

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District on Town Meeting Day decisively approved a $34,894,443 fiscal year 2026 budget. They voted in favor of the spending plan, 1,280-596.

Residents in the five Addison Northwest School District communities on Tuesday solidly backed a $27.653 million budget proposal to provide education for students in the coming school year.

About halfway through Lincoln’s town meeting Monday night, the gathering recessed to hold the Lincoln School District annual meeting.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board late last month got a chance to hear from some of the district’s principals about the systems and resources in place for supporting students.

The Vermont Agency of Education announced Vermont’s Presidential Scholar recipients and honorable mentions for the 2024–2025 school year in a recognition ceremony at the Vermont State House on January 27, 2025.

For more than 20 years, Elderly Services has been offering an array of community programs featuring local experts, various Middlebury College professors, authors and others through the “ESI College” series.

At Vermont’s Town Meetings last year, voters rejected over 30 school budgets, about one in three, because of budget increases that averaged close to 13%. This year, when the average property tax is expected to rise about 6% or half what it did last year, … (read more)

Any faith I had in Gov. Scott has been destroyed by his actions regarding education in Vermont.

am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction with Gov. Scott’s school reform plan for the state. I would like to preface this criticism by saying that though I have never voted for Scott, I hold him in high regard and am thankful for his steady, rational … (read more)

I am writing to thank our school board for the hard work it’s done, not just this year, but for many years. After Town Meeting Day, John Stroup, a long-time school board member and the chair of the board for the last five years, is stepping down from the … (read more)

The Independent sent four education-related questions to each of the three, first-time candidates competing next week in a five-person race for three Middlebury seats on the Addison Central School District board: Vance Bishop, Ron Makleff and Jess Venable … (read more)

Efforts to streamline Vermont’s public education system, a potential loss of federal funding for state programs and the ongoing, unbridled rise in health insurance premiums dominated discussion at Monday’s legislative breakfast hosted by Bristol American … (read more)

Vermont Agency of Education officials and Gov. Phil Scott are touting a revamp of the state’s Career Technical Education (CTE) system that they believe will improve the quality and efficiency of the state’s 17 CTE hubs — including Addison County’s Patrici … (read more)