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New Haven says 'yes' to Vermont Green Line

Posted on May 26, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



NEW HAVEN — New Haven residents have expressed their support for the proposed Vermont Green Line converter station by nearly a two-to-one margin.

Town officials polled them in a townwide survey that residents had a week to answer, and on Tuesday evening the results showed 252 residents in favor of the project and 128 residents against.

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Is there room for more kids as universal preschool takes effect?

Posted on May 26, 2016 |
By Emelie Munson



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By EMILIE MUNSON

After a year of phone calls, waitlists and stretched patience, Katie Howe has just found a preschool opening for her 3-year-old son.

“It has been very difficult,” said Howe, a mother of two and an outreach worker at the Addison County Parent Child Center.

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New graduation requirements win over VUHS seniors

Posted on May 26, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — Like probably most members of the Vergennes Union High School class of 2016, Panton resident Julia Johnson did not welcome last week’s mandatory Proficiency Based Graduation Requirement (PBGR) presentation.

An April email had reminded seniors what most had ignored or forgotten: They had to make a presentation of at least five minutes before their morning meeting peers and several teachers that reflected back on their academic and personal growth at VUHS.

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Young writers dive deep into their craft at Bread Loaf workshop

Posted on May 26, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



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Conlon to run for Addison-2 House seat

Posted on May 23, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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CORNWALL — UD-3 school board Chairman Peter Conlon confirmed on Thursday that he will run for the Addison-2 seat in the Vermont House soon to be vacated by Rep. Willem Jewett, D-Ripton.

As previously reported in the Independent, Jewett — the former House majority leader — has decided to retire after 14 years representing the single-seat district that includes Cornwall, Ripton, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen and Hancock.

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ANeSU teacher contract includes 3.25 percent raises for two years

Posted on May 23, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



BRISTOL — After 16 months of negotiations, the teachers of the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union have a contract.

What began as a fractious and drawn-out negotiation that twice threatened to dead end — first at an officially declared impasse, then at a call for a fact-finding hearing — has resolved with a teacher salary increase of 3.25 percent for this year and the next.

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Generations of Mary Hogan kindergarteners say goodbye to teacher Marion Leonard

Posted on May 23, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — The word of the day today, class, is “D.”

As in “diminutive” and “dynamo.”

Two words that only begin to describe longtime Mary Hogan Elementary School teacher Marion Leonard.

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Preschoolers kept Deborah Angier young during 33-year career at ANwSU

Posted on May 23, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — Thirty-three years ago, then Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Superintendent Gail Link offered Deborah Angier a yearlong substitute teaching position in the district’s preschool, then operating in the Bixby Library basement on Main Street, Vergennes.

Angier, a Randolph native whose family had moved to Vergennes when she was a fourth-grader, had recently earned her degree in elementary education from Trinity College in Burlington, but was considering other options based on her love of the French language.

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Heirloom hardwoods get new life at Bristol business

Posted on May 23, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



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BRISTOL — Vermont Tree Goods — a new Bristol business being launched by sawyer/woodworker/entrepreneur John Monks — was literally born out of the ashes.

A devastating fire on Thanksgiving eve 2010 left Monks and his family with little more than the clothes on their backs.

For Monks, a long-time homebuilder, all that remained of the equipment he had built up over three decades were a few scaffolds.

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Sen. Claire Ayer eyes top post in Senate; Sen. Bray in running

Posted on May 19, 2016 |
By John Flowers



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MONTPELIER — Saying she wants to help train and encourage a new generation of leaders in the state’s highest chamber, longtime Addison County Sen. Claire Ayer confirmed this week that she will run for the top leadership position in the Vermont Senate.

And it looks like the Addison Democrat will have plenty of competition for the job of Senate president pro tempore — including from within her own senatorial district, which includes Addison County, Huntington and Buel’s Gore.

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