Mount Abe school budget fails at ballot box again (UPDATED)

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District on Tuesday defeated a proposed $35.9 million spending plan by 57 votes.

Starksboro’s Robinson Elementary School will welcome a new principal in July. 

The Preservation Trust of Vermont has given a Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization grant of $100,000 to the Starksboro Meetinghouse to support exterior repairs, structural improvements, and the expansion of the Starksboro Cooperative Preschool. 

Democratic state Rep. Caleb Elder of Starksboro won’t seek reelection; he will instead run for one of the two state Senate seats representing Addison County, Huntington, Rochester and Buel’s Gore.

The Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group will perform at the Starksboro Village Meeting House on Saturday, March 16, at 7 p.m., after a day of village events including a Chili Cook-Off competition and the annual Sugar on Snow Party. 

Sugarmaker Dave Folino has spent over four decades tapping trees in the woods of Starksboro’s Hillsboro Mountain. 

In May 2022 composer-pianist David Feurzeig embarked on Play Every Town: 252 free concerts in each of Vermont’s 252 towns to confront climate change through the power of community and music. On Friday, Oct. 20, he will perform in Starksboro.

Addison County Regional Planning Commission (ACRPC), Lewis Creek Association (LCA), and landowners have removed the old bridge abutments and concrete in Hollow Brook near Lazy Brook Manufactured Housing Community on Hollow Road in Starksboro.

Plans are afoot to address recurring flooding along the southernmost area of the Lewis Creek, which runs along Route 116 near homes in Starksboro and a portion of Bristol.

The following arms-length real estate sales were recorded in Starksboro between June 2022 and June 2023.

The Starksboro selectboard is considering how to divvy up the remaining funds of the town’s $521,300 share of American Rescue Plan Act funding.

When Brendan O’Brien moved back to Vermont in 2016, the Starksboro resident was thinking a lot about the dairy farms scattered throughout the state. More specifically, how to make use of an increasing amount of organic waste piling up on Vermont farms. 

A relatively new Starksboro business called Dairy Dirt recently got some extra support to help meet its goals for growth.

Ashley Farland has spent much of her life making things, like colorful bouquets and fine cuisine. Now she crafting home and kitchen products for her Starksboro business.

Kerry Lake’s approach to teaching has largely been shaped by her experiences outside the classroom, and more specifically, outside the United States.