VERGENNES — After months of contentious public conversations about how to solve the increasingly dire problems of decreasing enrollment and increasing education costs, the Addison Northwest School District made the difficult decision to close one of its elementary schools next year. Then, in an effort to preserve programming while keeping tax increases to a minimum, the board crafted a $21,842,595 fiscal year 2021 budget that involved spending less money next year than was spent this year. With that decisio … (read more)