Westford News

My recent decision to review the supervisory union makeup of the Essex Town Supervisory District has generated lots of discussion and opinions.

The Essex Town School Board started the process of finding a new superintendent without knowing how long the district will have that post available to fill.

Vermont Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca is urging a renewed look at school-district consolidation.

The Vermont Board of Education voted yes Tuesday to study a potential merger of two supervisory unions in Chittenden County.

WESTFORD -- A three-hour search Sunday night for a missing 74-year-old man ended with the man being located, safe and uninjured.

Two events having to do with "consolidation" in public education this week show that the debate boils down to what we gain versus what we give up by joining two or more schools together.

Economists Jeff Carr and Tom Kavet said this was the first time in two years they had some good news for state leaders.

The Vermont Commissioner of Education is considering whether to recommend to the state Board of Education that schools in Essex and Essex Junction consolidate into one supervisory union.

Lukas LaRiviere Age: 17 School: BFA Fairfax Parents: Neal LaRiviere and Dolores Eckert Hometown: Fairfax Top 5 accomplishments: Selected for National Honor Society, on honor roll for four years, 3.8 GPA, traveled to England with school group, member of Ultimate Frisbee Club.

Girls on the Run Vermont is in the process of expanding its roster to 115 sites statewide, and volunteer coaches are needed in the areas of Westford, Essex, Hinesburg and Charlotte.

The two roosters prowling off South Williams Street on Friday were not the first ones seen -- or heard -- in this settled neighborhood at the west edge of the University of Vermont campus.

It might qualify as a symbol: Frank Ammirato Jr.'s Westford barn emerged last week as Vermont's first site for a new incentive program for photovoltaic power.

Several schools in Essex school districts, including schools in Essex Junction and Westford, have postponed H1N1 flu clinics due to a shortage of the vaccine.

ESSEX -- The superintendent of the Essex Town School District will resign at the end of the school year.

There are hours upon hours of homework and some courses are a total nightmare. But not all students are stressed.

More than two years after critics first voiced concerns that tiny FairPoint lacked the resources to take over Verizon's Northern New England land-line business, some of their predictions are proving true.

Deep budget cuts at the Department of Corrections could force officials to slash the number of frontline officers overseeing nearly 8,000 people on either probation or parole in Vermont.

About 30 years ago, Essex Rescue began responding to emergency calls in Underhill.

INCIDENT: Attempting to Elude, Negligent Operation, Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol- Refusal, motor vehicle crash with injuries.

Police say a suspected drunk driver escaped a fiery crash in Westford, Vt. Essex Police and Vermont State Troopers arrested 40-year-old Steven Bergman of Essex Tuesday night.