Counseling Service picks new leader

The CSAC board recently picked Taylor Morley, 34, as its new Executive Director.

The numbers presented to the ACSD board on Monday were a very tentative, birds-eye view of Middlebury Union High School’s repair, maintenance and upgrade needs.

A citizen-led effort to revive the former Buxton’s Store building in Orwell was selected to receive financial and technical assistance as one of five beneficiaries of the 2025 Village Trust Initiative.

At the Vermont School Redistricting Task Force’s penultimate meeting on Monday, Nov. 10, the advisory board voted to reject the only map that fulfilled the task set forth in Act 73, Vermont’s sweeping education-reform law.

The Otter Valley Unified Union school board is exploring potential reconfiguration and closure of district elementary schools including Otter Creek Academy schools in Leicester and Whiting.

The Vergennes city council appears to be getting ready to serve a proposal to voters this coming March.

Bristol selectboard members are considering updating the town’s policy for development on the town green.

The ACSD board on Monday conducted its first review of a plan to educate both the Shoreham and Bridport K-5 student populations at Bridport Central School beginning next fall.

Bristol officials are exploring the idea of a local option tax, which voters could weigh in on during Town Meeting Day in March.

An 81-page draft of a new town plan reached the Ferrisburgh selectboard for the first of two public hearings on Nov. 4.

The Bristol selectboard on Monday resumed discussion on whether to develop an ordinance for dealing with loose livestock.

All three members of Vermont’s congressional delegation are opposed to a deal to end the historic government shutdown that passed the U.S. Senate late Monday and is headed to the House.

The Charter House Emergency Shelter’s annual report illustrates the strain that recent federal policies and the tight housing market are having on low-income folks.

The Middlebury selectboard adopted a new winter parking policy that allows vehicles to park overnight on public streets and in public parking lots, except during snowstorms.

Residents of the Green Mountain State are invited to enter the Vermont Writers’ Prize by submitting a poem or work of prose by Jan. 1, 2026