Principal leaving Bristol Elementary School

Less than a year on the job, the principal alerted the community that he would take a leave of absence for the rest of the school year.

Sugaring is a Vermont tradition. Now it’s part of a tradition at Bristol Elementary School as well.

Every year throughout her more than four decades teaching at Bristol Elementary School, Mary Jane Broughton welcomed the winter season by making mittens for each of her students.

Following a recent incident involving a student in crisis at Bristol Elementary School, parents and staff in the Mount Abraham Unified School District are once again asking district officials for help. 

Eleven Bristol Elementary School students were selected as winners for the 2022 Annual Vermont Division of Fire Safety’s Robert Howe Fire Safety Calendar Project.

After narrowing the field to three finalists, the BES Principal Search Committee announced this week it has chosen John Bratko of Frankfurt, Ill., to be the school’s top administrator.

The Mount Abe school district will have a reshuffle in how it supports students.

Bristol Elementary will likely be led next year by either one of two Midwesterners or a Bristol resident,

In early December, the Bristol Elementary School Student Council members decided they wanted to do something to feed the hungry in our community.

All that is right with Bristol elementary school…

My heart breaks for everyone in our district: students, staff, parents, administrators and board. How did we get here?

Mount Abraham Unified School District Board chair Dawn Griswold refused to convene an executive session Monday night to hear testimony from a distraught parent who alleges her child was sexually harassed at Bristol Elementary School.

School board members, staff, parents and community members were looking for answers when the MAUSD board convened a special meeting this past Thursday, Oct. 21.

Save Community Schools supports the staff, students and families of Bristol Elementary School.

That one incident is merely a culminating example of policy and communication issues and utter ineptness that have plagued our district for several years.