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VUHS to discuss potential $5M upgrade

Posted on June 28, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the date of the VUHS board meeting.

VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School board hopes to hear from the public on Monday, July 9, its opinions on a bond that could be floated as soon as November and might approach $5 million if all elements now being discussed are included.

In the past six weeks, according to Addison Northwest Supervisory Union business manager Kathy Cannon, school officials have begun leaning toward asking for two elements that were in early May less likely.

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Ferrisburgh students to tap maple trees

Posted on June 21, 2012 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh selectmen on Tuesday agreed to let supervised Ferrisburgh Central School students tap maple trees on the town-owned Union Meeting Hall property on Route 7 — with one provision.

The proposal came from FCS parent Nick Patch, who has a portable maple sugar house. Patch sought the board’s permission to tap the maples, which are about 400 yards from the school across the state highway.

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Study panel floats ideas to boost ACSU schools

Posted on June 18, 2012 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — The path to long-term sustainability of the Addison Central Supervisory Union’s seven elementary schools hinges in part on sharing more resources, enhancing programs and curriculum, and exploring potential collaborations with Middlebury College.

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Teachers and negotiators strike ANeSU contract deal

Posted on June 14, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — After almost two years of negotiation, the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union’s negotiating committee and teachers’ union this week came to an agreement on a teachers’ contract.

The exact terms of the new contract, which were ironed out Monday night in executive session negotiations, haven’t yet been released. But Lanny Smith, lead negotiator for the school boards, said that the terms will be made public after the first school board votes on the new contracts.

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Ripton to bus in students to boost its school population

Posted on June 11, 2012 |
By John Flowers



RIPTON — Ripton Elementary School will soon prove that it is literally willing to go the distance to stabilize — and even increase — its student enrollment.

Ripton school directors last week agreed to run a new bus service to Hancock and Granville this fall to give families in those Route 100 communities extra incentive to attend Ripton Elementary.

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CCV diplomas open new doors for local grads

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By John Flowers



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MIDDLEBURY — Life can take you down some bumpy and trying paths, and Megan Coon has the bruises to prove it.

She thought she had her life all mapped out.

After graduating from Middlebury Union High School in 2003, Coon enrolled at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh.

“I wasn’t mature enough to finish,” Coon lamented. “I did one-and-a-half years, then I decided to take some time to grow up and figure out what I wanted to do.”

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Educator retiring to help war-torn nation

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



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MONKTON — At the end of today, Monkton Central School Assistant Principal and Special Educator Mary Gemignani will walk out the same doors she’s passed through for decades and set afoot on a new adventure.

She is leaving the Monkton school to blaze a new path through life and focus her energy on revitalizing education in the war-torn Liberian village of Klay — the same place that sparked the revered educator’s passion for teaching.

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ANwSU settles contract

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrea Suozzo



VERGENNES — Teachers and the school board within the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union have settled on a two-year teacher contract more than a month before the current contract expires on June 30.

Both Kristin Bristow, lead negotiator for the school boards, and Rose Wenzel, co-chief negotiator for the teachers, said the negotiation went smoothly, taking just a few months — from the first meeting in December until the teachers ratified the contract last Tuesday — to work out the full contract details.

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Mock crash shocks VUHS students

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Kaitlyn Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES –– The scene behind Vergennes Union High School was horrifying. Shattered glass littered the ground around two totaled cars. A teenage girl lay unconscious on the hood of one car. Other teens were slumped in their seats, covered in blood.

It seemed real ­­­­­­–– and that was the intended effect.

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ANeSU negotiations back on tap

Posted on June 7, 2012 |
By Andrew Stein



BRISTOL — For almost two years, Addison Northeast Supervisory Union (ANeSU) teachers have been working without a collective bargaining agreement. Representatives from the ANeSU teachers’ union are hoping to reach an agreement on Monday and shed the imposed conditions that they’ve been working under since January 2011.

The negotiations, slated for Monday, will be held behind closed doors in executive session.

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