petitions
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Three ACSD towns approve SOS referenda
RIPTON — Voters in three of the Addison Central School District’s seven member-towns support the notion that school board members should only be elected by their fellow townspeople,…
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Four towns to weigh in on ACSD petitions
CORNWALL — Four of the Addison Central School District’s seven communities will hold March 3 votes on two petitioned referenda that the ACSD board declined to warn on…
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Letter to the editor: ACSD’s denial of petitions was undemocratic
On its website, the Vermont League of Cities and Towns describes town meeting as “direct democracy practiced in its purest form. It is the key to town government,…
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Letter to the editor: ACSD should warn petitioned referenda
This open letter to the Addison Central School District Board of Education was also submitted to the Addison Independent Democracy is difficult to maintain. We must be vigilant…
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ACSD won’t warn citizen petitions
MDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District board on Tuesday unanimously rejected two citizens’ petitions — based on a lawyer’s advice — that sought to give each of…
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Letter to the editor: ACSD petitions are about creating democratic framework
Editor’s note: This is a letter sent to the Addison Central School District board and Superintendent Peter Burrows, and copied to the Independent. It deals with a topic…