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Top Ten 2023: Good news on the childcare front
In June, the Vermont Legislature passed a sweeping childcare bill that would invest $125 million a year of new funding into the state’s childcare sector, making it one…
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Top Ten 2023: County marks changing of the guard
The top officials in our community are called “leaders” for a reason. They aren’t just figureheads, but have actual authority to make decisions that affect our daily lives;…
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Top Ten 2023: Racist incidents occur at schools
Local schools grappled with racist incidents directed at both students and educators and considered ways to foster more welcoming and inclusive learning communities moving forward.
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Top Ten 2023: College aims to offer real-world, accessible education
How does an esteemed educational institution continue to prepare its students for life after graduation in an ever-changing, complex world? It evolves.
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Top Ten 2023: How we fund our schools
Addison County residents showed strong support for public education on Town Meeting Day, when all local school budgets passed, four out of five by large margins.
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Top Ten 2023: We boast champions all around
The Independent Sports section believes everyone’s efforts count. Sure, when scores are logged, times are kept, distances are measured, or performances are judged, winners are named. And here…
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Top Ten 2023: Online
Readers had their own opinions about what interested them most in 2023. One indication of that is what you “clicked” in 2023.
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Top Ten 2022: Living with COVID
After a bad winter, we mostly learned to live with COVID over the course of the year and for most of us it became more of a constant…
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Top Ten 2022: Towns foster local schools
A handful of Addison County towns worked tirelessly this year to keep or gain control of their local elementary schools in an effort to ensure they’d stay open…
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Top Ten 2022: Housing crunch worsens
Addison County’s — and Vermont’s — dearth of affordable housing has been well-chronicled during the past three decades. And 2022 added another sad chapter to a housing dilemma…
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Top Ten 2022: It was a lively election
Here in Addison County there was somewhat of a “blue wave” that swept Democrats into every single one of Addison County’s allotted seats in the Vermont House and…
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Top Ten 2022: Passenger rail returns
2022 saw the return of passenger rail service to Addison County with the expansion of Amtrak’s Ethan Allen Express train, which now moves people between New York City…
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Top Ten 2022: Childcare shortage affects families
Childcare centers have for years been waging a battle to attract and retain educators, while providing enough slots to meet the needs of Addison County households.
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Top Ten 2022: ANWSD/MAUSD merger defeated
Despite their optimistic findings, the committee’s drafted articles of agreement sparked concerns from many community members, particularly regarding how potential school closures and consolidations would be handled in…
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Top Ten 2022: Vergennes finds a big sewer fix
For years the troubled Vergennes wastewater collection and treatment system has had a distressing habit of overflowing and then dumping sewage-laced stormwater into Otter Creek, with amounts at…
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Top Ten 2022: Police arrest sheriff
The hammer came down on June 28, when troopers after a months-long investigation arrested Newton on charges of felony sexual assault, second-degree unlawful restraint and domestic assault.