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School board has prepared information about dissolution votes

By
Jamie Contois
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 — Issue 601

PUTNEY — The Windham Southeast School District Communication Council is distributing a one-page informational sheet on the two articles on the individual town ballots on withdrawing from the School District. The School Board approved this info sheet for distribution on Feb. 16.

It can also be found on the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union Website, linked from the homepage at the top: wsesu.org and directly at bit.ly/601-wsesd-info.

Voting has begun on each of these articles in the four towns: Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney. Please feel free to distribute widely.

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'Public safety' is not community safety

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Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...

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Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...

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Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...

What are we going to do about the women?

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