Two regional school districts have voter approval for their budgets after votes on June 30. In a second round of casting ballots, voters of the five-town West River Modified Union Education District (WRMUED) approved the fiscal year 2021 budget. Voters approved the district's pre-K-6 budget, 341–211. Voters in the towns of Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney overwhelmingly approved the Windham Southeast School District budget, 1,531–242. The voters traditionally vote the budget from the floor, but due to COVID-19 safety precautions,
WESTMINSTER-Roger Allbee will speak about his book, Turning the Soil: 250 Years of Vermont Agriculture at the Westminster Institute's Butterfield Library, 3534 US Route 5, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8. Allbee's is a historical book, examining changes in rural communities, farmers' activities, agricultural production, and farm policies over a period of more than 250 years. It comprehensively analyzes agriculture from the perspectives of grassroots, state, national, and global levels. It also offers a bird's-eye view of the history...
I can't recall when I became pro-choice. Maybe it was by default, when I “chose” to have an abortion, two of them, two months apart from each other, at the ripe age of 16. (Though I know others who made the same “choice” and who are equally pro-life.) I never gave abortion much thought, not politically speaking. It was a personal, desperate, practical act that, inside, I knew was wrong. But I grasped at it anyway. Afterward, when I became...
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