Northern Addison County school merger committee clarifies deadline

BRISTOL — The ANWSD-MAUSD Merger Study Committee is not obligated to finish its work in time to warn a possible vote on Town Meeting Day, March, 1, 2022, and the committee made a point of repeating this fact several times during its second meeting on Tuesday night, Aug. 17.“March isn’t the definite end point,” educational consultant Tracy Wrend told the committee, which met in the Mount Abraham Union High School cafeteria. “It’s up to you decide.”The Merger Study Committee was formed in April by the boards … (read more)

ADDISON — Addison residents have successfully petitioned for a revote on whether the town should leave the Addison Northwest School District.A petition containing 135 signatures, not all of which had been verified as of late Thursday afternoon, arrived at … (read more)

VERGENNES — The ANWSD-MAUSD Merger Study Committee has begun its work.The group, which was created to study the advisability of a merger between the Addison Northwest School District (Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham) and the Mount Abraham … (read more)

ADDISON — Addison residents voted by a narrow margin on Tuesday to remain in the Addison Northwest School District.The final vote in 20% turnout was 122-106. Tuesday’s outcome is subject to a petition for a revote.The Addison selectboard had scheduled the … (read more)

The 122-106 vote in Addison not to withdraw from the ANWSU district was an interesting rejection of what arose from a public petition. While the vote was close and could face an appeal and do-over, the other telling finding was that the issue drew a scant … (read more)

ADDISON — The Addison selectboard heard pros and cons at an informational meeting on Tuesday in advance of July 13 town-wide vote on whether Addison should follow Ripton and try to become the second Addison County rural town to withdraw from a unified sch … (read more)

BRISTOL — The study committee that will look at the possibility of a merger between the Mount Abraham Unified School and Addison Northwest School districts now has the membership it needs to start its work.The 15-member committee will be comprised of nine … (read more)

As Addison residents contemplate how they would prefer to educate their preK-6 grade students ahead of a vote next Tuesday, July 13, there is much to consider, as well as understanding that other examples are not always good measures of possible success.A … (read more)

ADDISON — With the town of Addison’s July 13 vote looming on whether to withdraw from the Addison Northwest School District, ANWSD board members and administrators say they are supportive of the town residents’ right to petition for the vote and take that … (read more)

VERGENNES — At its Monday meeting the Addison Northwest School District board, at the recommendation of board Chair John Stroup, appointed ANWSD’s six representatives to the joint Mount Abraham Unified School District-ANWSD Study Committee that will forma … (read more)

VERGENNES — Addison Northwest School Board Chair John Stroup this week issued a statement on behalf of the ANWSD board on the July 13 vote in Addison on whether that community should withdraw from the unified school district.It reads:“The ANWSD has focuse … (read more)

ADDISON — The town of Addison is making a bid to become the second Addison County community to withdraw from a unified school district, following Ripton’s successful bid this spring to separate from the Addison Central School District. The Addison selectb … (read more)

As the town of Addison prepares to vote July 13 on whether to withdraw from the Addison Northwest School District, residents in the district’s other towns should view the proceedings with empathy — as if they were living in Addison and it was their school … (read more)

VERGENNES — Rocketry. Woodworking. Arts and crafts. Ice cream making. Painting. Sports. Rope climbing.It’s all on the menu for area 4th- through 8th-graders this summer, offered in weekly chunks every morning in-person at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater … (read more)

BRISTOL/VERGENNES — Addison County’s two northern unified school districts made it official on Monday night: They will pursue a formal study to look at whether they should merge. At an unprecedented joint meeting, the Mount Abraham Unified and Addison Nor … (read more)