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New child care center pitched for Court Street

Posted on June 6, 2011 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — A mother-daughter team is proposing to open a new child care center at 111 Court St. that could accommodate up to 45 children and employ up to 10 care-givers.

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Monkton attempts to set a new knitting world record

Posted on May 19, 2011 |
By Andrew Stein



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MONKTON — Watch out world, a team of Monkton Central School first- and second-graders is poised to break a new record.

The students in Barbara Yerrick’s second-grade class and Suzy Way’s first- and second-grade class have joined forces to break the Guinness World Record for team finger knitting, currently held by a group of Austrian fourth-graders at 3.85 miles.

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137K grant to boost student portfolio plan

Posted on May 19, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



 

VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School has won a $137,700 grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to further the school’s effort to require students to demonstrate proficiency in self-designed portfolios before graduation.

VUHS hopes to switch to “Performance-Based Graduation Requirements” (PBGRs) by 2016, according to its grant application to the foundation.

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Webbley named state's top principal

Posted on May 16, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — The Vermont Principals’ Association announced last week that Vergennes Union High School Co-Principal Ed Webbley has been chosen as the organization’s Robert F. Pierce Vermont Secondary Principal of the Year.

Webbley becomes the second VUHS principal in the past decade to earn that honor: The VPA presented former VUHS school head Peter Coffey with the same award in 2002.

VPA Executive Director Ken Page noted not only that repeat recognition, but also that:

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Unification debated at Vergennes forum

Posted on May 12, 2011 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — At Tuesday’s Vergennes forum in advance of the May 17 revote on Addison Northwest Supervisory Union unification, opponents questioned what tax impact the switch to one-board governance would have on city residents.

Meanwhile, backers focused on unification’s potential benefits to ANwSU students, especially those from elementary schools coming into Vergennes Union High School, and to residents from long-range stability of tax rates.

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College honors student leaders at annual event

Posted on May 12, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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MIDDLEBURY — The more than 100 students who gathered at the Student Leadership Awards Ceremony at Middlebury College on May 2 came from a wide array of campus organizations and represented the most active participants among the 1,500 students from the college who donate more than 500,000 hours of their time each year to local, national and international causes.

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Theater's new educator to lead youth programs

Posted on May 5, 2011 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Addison County youth will increasingly take center stage in Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater (THT) thanks to a generous donation that has allowed the organization to hire an education director.

Douglas Anderson, THT executive director, this week announced the hiring of Westport, N.Y., resident Lindsay Pontius to a part-time educator’s position in which she will cultivate new youth programming for the next generation of aspiring actors and theater-goers.

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Bridport and Ripton choose new elementary school principals

Posted on May 5, 2011 |
By John Flowers



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BRIDPORT — Bridport and Ripton have picked new elementary school principals who both have strong ties to Addison County.

Bridport Central School directors recently selected Kathleen Kilbourne to lead their students and teachers beginning on July 1. Kilbourne, 38, is currently associate principal of Milton Elementary School and previously taught for 15 years at Bristol Elementary School. She will succeed longtime Bridport Principal Georgette Childs, who is retiring.

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College reimagines web-based language learning

Posted on May 2, 2011 |
By Andrea Suozzo



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MIDDLEBURY — Imagine a computer game where the user plays a waiter in a café, responsible for keeping the customers happy with quick service and small talk.

Now imagine that the game is conducted in another language, and that it is part of a foreign language curriculum.

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ACSU teachers OK new contract

Posted on May 2, 2011 |
By John Flowers



 

MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union board and teachers have agreed in principal on a new, four-year contract, the terms of which will be made public after ratification by all the school boards in the school district.

The new contract retroactively covers the past two years and the next two. For the first time ever, this single contract will cover all of the elementary and secondary school teachers in the seven-town ACSU.

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