Christopher Ross
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New Folklife Center project focuses on schools
The Vermont Town Schools Project aims to foster conversations among community members to create an oral history collection exploring the relationship between towns and their schools.
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Adirondack memoir explores a particular kind of male friendship
Christopher Shaw’s recently published memoir “Crazy Wisdom,” which explores the decades-long friendship with his widely admired but deeply flawed late friend Jon Cody, excels in its descriptions of…
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Bristol seeing significant solar investment
If the 500kW community solar project under construction on 3 acres of Bristol’s former town landfill is completed, as hoped, by New Year’s, the project will have gone…
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MAUSD responds to crisis in Bristol
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.
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How a local farmer became ‘Hollywood Doug’
Middlebury College graduate and emerging filmmaker Tommy Hyde packs a lot into his first feature-length documentary, “Underdog,” a loving portrait of Middlebury dairy farmer Doug Butler.
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Bristol parent speaks out about BES
When Kelly Hedley, a parent in the Mount Abraham Unified School District, spoke at last week’s school board meeting in the high school cafeteria, she stood alone.
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Young T-shirt designers celebrate Bristol
If you could express your feelings and thoughts about Bristol for a T-shirt design, what would you come up with? The folks at Vermont Marketplace, who sponsored the…
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School boards walk a fine line at meetings
School boards face a number of challenges when they need to communicate or hear testimony about issues that might involve individual students or employees.
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Bristol Elementary teachers beg for help
A Bristol Elementary School teacher broke down in tears during Tuesday night’s school board meeting as she tried to describe an incident she and her students had experienced…
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New school-funding math could hurt local budgets
A new report concludes that Vermont’s decades-old method of calculating equalized pupils doesn’t reflect the state’s current educational conditions, and this is undermining attempts to provide every student…
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Mt. Abe grad wins prize for her first book
“Cassie Fancher is a young Alice Munro, rendering the streets and back roads of rural New England via fresh, haunting and electrifying images of longing and grief,” said…
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Bristol Elementary teachers raise concerns about ‘unsafe conditions’
Teachers spoke of incidents in recent days and weeks when “children were hiding and crying in fear and staff members were injured.
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Small group discusses MAUSD school issues in Monkton forum
Very few residents showed up to a community school forum last Thursday, and those who did were outnumbered on Zoom by interested onlookers from other towns.
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Monkton celebrates its new municipal building
“The best part of this building is … everything,” Monkton Town Clerk Sharon Gomez said during the building’s grand opening on Saturday.
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Bristol horse lovers organize celebration
“This is going to be a demo day and an educational showcase,” said Lynda Malzac, a local horse trainer who helped spearhead last year’s Horse Ring rebuilding campaign.
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Bristol seeks new town treasurer
The town of Bristol is in need of a few good number crunchers.