Cox bids farewell to Ripton selectboard after four decades

During her selectboard tenure, Laurie Cox has helped Ripton negotiate a gift-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Middlebury College; update town office technology, rebuild after 11 floods, and plan construction of a new municipal fire station and sand/salt shed.

MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos brought his “2019 transparency tour” to Middlebury on Tuesday, a biennial visit designed to drill town officials on the information they must share with the people who elect them and/or pay their salaries … (read more)