WOODSTOCK — Nearly a year after the State Board of Education made the final call on reorganizing and consolidating school districts under Act 46, one holdout district has decided to put a merger proposal before its residents – by choice. Barnard school officials will be asking their townspeople to vote on a new plan to consolidate with the Windsor Central Modified Union on Dec. 10. Barnard residents had previously rejected a merger at the ballot box, and its school board joined on to the multi-district laws … (read more)