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Hartford clerical workers seek vote to unionize
10-22-2024 6:30 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HARTFORD — More than a dozen of the town’s clerical workers are seeking a vote on whether to join a union.The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 93 has submitted a petition to the state Labor Relations Board...

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KUA student dies in Vermont car crash
11-12-2024 7:50 PM

By JOHN LIPPMAN

MERIDEN — A 17-year-old boarding student attending Kimball Union Academy was killed in a motor vehicle crash early Sunday morning in Shrewsbury, Vt., Vermont State Police reported.Macy Piersiak was remembered this week as an outgoing senior with a...


Friends and rivals, Brazile and Conway, appear at Dartmouth
10-11-2024 6:31 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Political strategists Donna Brazile and Kellyanne Conway discussed the 2024 election and the importance of fostering conversations across the political divide this week in the first in a series of debates hosted by the Dartmouth Political...


Dartmouth graduate student alleges religious discrimination by union
10-02-2024 4:30 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Dartmouth College’s graduate student union is the subject of a religious discrimination complaint filed by a graduate student and teaching assistant opposed to the union’s support for pro-Palestinian causes.Benjamin Logsdon, a student in...


Cleanup crew
09-04-2024 2:55 PM


Crash damages Meriden post office building
08-06-2024 5:03 PM

Kimball Union Academy employee Fabio Sobrinho cleans up debris left after a driver accelerated from the parking lot into the building shared by the school’s College Advising Office and the Meriden Post Office in Meriden on Tuesday. Gunnar Olson, KUA...


Former Hartford superintendent takes new job in Windsor
07-29-2024 6:31 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WINDSOR — Hartford’s former superintendent will serve as associate director of student support services in the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union beginning in mid-August, according to an email announcement to Windsor Southeast staff last week.Tom...


Dartmouth graduate student union reaches contract deal with college
06-30-2024 6:01 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — After nearly a year of negotiating and a 60-day strike, Dartmouth College and its graduate student union have reached their first contract agreement.Union members voted Friday evening to ratify the contract.The contract marks the conclusion...


Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses end union campaign
06-24-2024 7:15 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — For the third time since 2008, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses have ended a unionization campaign before holding an election.The Dartmouth Nurses Alliance, the organizational face of the organizing effort, announced on social media...


DHMC union organizers say they have enough signatures to force vote
05-17-2024 7:31 PM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

LEBANON — With a unionization campaign by Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center nurses making more headway than two previous attempts, the hospital’s administration has hired a prominent California anti-union consultant to resist organizing efforts.Union...


Jim Kenyon: Dartmouth not about to give up fight against basketball team’s unionization effort
03-05-2024 6:16 PM

By JIM KENYON

For everyone who thinks college athletes deserve to get paid for the work they do on behalf of their schools, the 13-2 vote by Dartmouth men’s basketball players to unionize Tuesday was cause for celebration.Unfortunately, Dartmouth President Sian...


Strafford, Chelsea, Tunbridge and Sharon mull school budget cuts
02-29-2024 4:07 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Two White River Valley school districts that canceled their annual budget votes will resume discussions at school board meetings in the coming days.Both the Strafford and First Branch Unified school districts opted to call off their planned budget...


Jim Kenyon: Updates on continuing conflicts
01-19-2024 10:00 PM

By JIM KENYON

A few updates of recent columns while waiting for the New Hampshire presidential primary to be over so network TV can get back to running mostly ads hawking wonder drugs and snack chips.On campus With students having returned to campus after a...


Woodstock teachers win arbitration hearing over lab position
10-24-2023 7:39 PM

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — The future of a science and math lab at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School is uncertain after an arbitrator found earlier this month that the person running the lab must be a school employee, not a contractor.Since 2017, the...


Local food on the menu for Woodstock-area schools
09-07-2023 8:48 PM

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — The sourcing strategy behind the sloppy joes served to students in the Mountain Views Supervisory Union is anything but disorganized.They’re made with beef from Cloudland Farm in Pomfret, carefully selected for the students with the Upper...


Upper Valley school districts trying to be creative in face of hiring shortages
08-23-2023 5:22 PM

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — To adapt to a teacher shortage this year, Bluff Elementary School will have two multi-grade classes and larger class sizes than usual.The Claremont school has been unable to fill third- and fifth-grade teacher positions since it began...


Emergency assistance center opens in Woodstock
07-18-2023 1:06 PM

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Union High School is serving as a location for people affected by last week’s flooding to receive assistance, according to Vermont Emergency Management.The site is open Tuesday through Thursday, July 18-20, from 9 a.m. to 5...


In many Upper Valley communities, meal programs for kids will lapse this summer
06-13-2023 5:26 PM

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Free summer meals for children will be available in some parts of the Upper Valley this summer, but not all.The Orange East Supervisory Union, which includes Bradford, Vt.-area schools, will not be offering summer meals this...


Graduating Woodstock students urged to branch out into the unknown
06-09-2023 9:05 PM

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WOODSTOCK — Dressed in green robes inside Union Arena, 62 Woodstock Union High School seniors became graduates Friday night.In their remarks, the class’s co-salutatorians used natural themes to encourage their fellow graduates to be like trees and to...


Photos: Oxbow unified basketball wins quarterfinal matchup
05-18-2023 10:35 PM


Town Meeting: Oxbow warrant passes easily
05-11-2023 10:26 AM

BRADFORD, Vt. — A small turnout of voters in the Oxbow Unified Union School District approved an $18.4 million budget for the coming year at Tuesday night’s annual meeting.The 75 or so voters from Bradford and Newbury, the district’s two towns, also...

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