Bread Loaf lecture explores early English riddles and metaphor

“Through metaphor, we begin to understand the vastness of the world.”

The storied Bread Loaf Writers’ conference celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. From Aug. 13-23, free lectures and readings will be open to the public at Bread Loaf’s Little Theater in Ripton.

An ad hoc committee brainstorming potential new uses for the former Ripton Elementary School building is now seeking input from stakeholders, through a survey and an Aug. 20 community meeting.

A panel of Ripton residents and Addison Central School District officials will spend this summer brainstorming potential future uses for the Ripton Elementary School (RES) building, which closed its doors to local K-5 instruction last month due to declini … (read more)

My wife and I have recently engaged the civic apparatus of Ripton, Vermont. Our concern is a townwide reappraisal of property values, including ours. The proposed reassessment of our property nearly doubles the previous assessment, which, if the new asses … (read more)

Addison Central School District officials continue to prepare the next school year that will see Ripton’s K-5 students attend classes at Salisbury Community School, which is currently recruiting a new principal.

It will be a bittersweet graduation this June for the handful of Ripton Elementary School 5th-graders who’ll have the poignant distinction of being perhaps the last class to move on from RES to Middlebury Union Middle School.

The Addison Central School District board on Monday voted unanimously to shutter tiny Ripton Elementary School for the 2025-26 academic year while it sizes up the future of an RES that’s been decimated by declining enrollment.

The Addison Central School District board will hold a special meeting on Monday, March 31, to discuss — and potentially decide on — the future of Ripton Elementary School. It’s a meeting that’ll be held in open session, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Middl … (read more)

For more than 200 years, Ripton schools have rated high marks among local citizens for the way they’ve nourished local children intellectually, emotionally and in intangible ways. But a simple case of math could be on the verge of forcing its undoing — ma … (read more)

Is it inevitable that the Ripton Elementary School will close in the near future? Yes. Why? This is due to policy, maneuvering, and circumstance.

An 11th-hour bid to preserve kindergarten and 1st-grade education at tiny Ripton Elementary School suffered a big setback when ACSD Superintendent Wendy Baker announced that not enough out-of-town families had accepted an invitation to join RES’s K/1 clas … (read more)

Middlebury College and the town of Ripton have negotiated a new payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement through which the institution will pay the municipality more than $218,000 during each of the next 10 years, in recognition of its nontaxable holdin … (read more)

Ripton residents are joining forces to reimagine how public education might be delivered in their small town, in light of declining enrollment that’s placed the future of their local school in jeopardy.

It was another year in the books for the almost four-decade-old Ripton Ridge Run.