Founder Martha DeGraaf learned Tuesday that the fledgling after- and out-of-school program will receive some funding for three years through the Vermont Agency of Education.
A promise by the Ferrisburgh selectboard this week to send some much-needed financial support to Vergennes came as a big shot in the arm to a local youth program.
Vergennes voters are likely to decide in March whether the city should buy the former Boys & Girls Club building at 20 Armory Lane.
It was a financial crisis that led the board of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes to announce on March 17 it would suspend the club’s operations after Friday, March 28.
After the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes announced last week that it will go on hiatus, an at-least-short term alternative has quickly emerged to fill the afterschool void for city-area families.
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