ANWSD


  • Letter to the editor: ANWSD should preserve Walden

    Addison Northwest Supervisory Union was extremely short-sighted in taking an axe to the VUHS Walden Program in their too-quick budget revision after the first one was rejected.

  • UPDATED: ANWSD budget defeated again; this time by 18 votes

    UPDATED: ANWSD budget defeated again; this time by 18 votes

    For the second time this month, residents of the five communities on Tuesday rejected a spending plan — this time by 18 votes.

  • ANWSD budget revote is Tuesday

    After defeating an Addison Northwest School District spending plan on March 5, residents of the five-town district will vote on a slightly smaller budget this coming Tuesday.

  • ANWSD considers cuts, lower taxes, March revote

    A second vote on an Addison Northwest School District budget proposal could occur as soon as March 26. 

  • County voters reject most proposed school budgets

    County voters reject most proposed school budgets

    In all school districts, boards struggled with the double-digit rising costs of health insurance for their employees, general inflation and the loss of federal money started during the…

  • ANWSD residents defeat board’s $28.3M budget

    In commingled balloting in the five Addison Northwest School District communities, the ANWSD board’s Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (FY25) budget proposal of $28,232,078 was defeated on Tuesday, 1,282-1,012, or…

  • ANWSD holds firm on its adjusted budget

    While lawmakers in Montpelier last week debated last-minute changes in the state’s school-funding laws, the Addison Northwest School Board met on Feb. 12 and decided not to make…

  • ANWSD students schooled in circus arts

    ANWSD students schooled in circus arts

    You might not think of circus skills such as juggling, plate-spinning and clowning as educational activities. Administrators, family members and students at Vergennes Union Elementary and Ferrisburgh Central…

  • Letter to the editor: Don’t use CLA as smokescreen

    Regarding the Jan. 25 article in the Independent: “ANWSD board opts for bigger budget,” the article stated, “…Chair John Stroup said school officials will have to work hard…

  • ANWSD board cuts $750K from ’24-’25 budget

    The Addison Northwest School District board at a Monday special meeting voted to remove $750,000 of funding for capital improvements from the budget it approved on Jan. 17.