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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Earlier this year, Montshire Museum of Science staff were discussing ideas for a spring event.“We were spitballing ideas for events that we could do leading into our summer exhibition,” said Honor Hingston-Cox, media and public relations manager at...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Town officials have announced a special meeting on May 2 for voters to elect two school board members, races for which were inadvertently left off Town Meeting ballots last month.Last week, the Norwich School Board authorized Town Clerk Lily...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — During a discussion about problems uncovered in the town’s most recent audit, officials received recommendations and encouraging news about the town’s finances from an independent auditor last week.The Selectboard met on Wednesday with...

By JIM KENYON

The names Manu Tesone and Omer Trajman didn’t appear on Norwich’s Town Meeting ballot, but their fingerprints were all over Tuesday’s outcomes.Tesone and Trajman are the founders — and pied pipers — of a group called Stand Up For Norwich formed last...

HANOVER — Voters in the Dresden School District approved all articles on the warrant in ballot voting on Tuesday.They approved a $31.1 million budget to support secondary education for the towns of Hanover and Norwich. That is up from the $29.3...

NORWICH — At the polls on Tuesday, Norwich voters turned down a 10-year property tax exemption for the Norwich Farm Foundation, 942-323.They also rejected a proposal to eliminate the position of town lister and replace it with a professionally...

By JIM KENYON

For nearly 30 years, Norwich Town Clerk Bonnie Munday has issued dog licenses, recorded property transactions, handled election preparations and performed the other daily duties that come with the high-profile public office.As Munday, 65, heads into...

By FRANCES MIZE

NORWICH — Voters will be asked to approve tax-exempt status for property owned by the Norwich Farm Foundation during Tuesday’s Town Meeting ballot voting.The 6.2-acre parcel on Turnpike Road is valued at more than $1 million and is home to Norwich...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — An independent audit of town financial records last fiscal year identified a list of concerns with account management, including unreconciled discrepancies, incorrect account balances and town expenditures made without written consent of the...

Articles of note: Voters will be asked to provide town leaders with advice on whether or not to add a fifth full-time police officer to the three budgeted officers and chief. They also will be asked to weigh in on whether to eliminate the office of...

Article of note: Voters will be asked whether to affirm that the Dresden School Board establish policies to move school facilities and operations to renewable energy sources for electricity, heating and cooling, and transportation.Contested...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Police staffing, administrative vacancies and the stability of town leadership are among the key issues in the campaign for the Selectboard, where five residents are vying to fill three open seats in voting on March 7.Selectboard Chairwoman...

By ALEX HANSON

NORWICH — A change in how Vermont funds public education will lead to a big tax increase in Norwich.Act 127, approved last year, assigns greater weight to students in poverty or who are learning English as a second language.According to a study that...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Two Upper Valley towns, Woodstock and Norwich, will ask their voters at Town Meeting whether to eliminate the position of town lister, which is an elected office, and replace it with a professional assessor who is hired by the...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Two Upper Valley libraries have started up programs that aim to help residents learn to mend clothing.Woodstock’s Norman Williams Public Library began hosting a Mending Circle on Jan. 11. The group will meet from 2 to 3 p.m. on the second and fourth...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — The Norwich Selectboard will ask town voters in March to consider a nearly $6 million budget for next fiscal year, comprising a $5.5 million operating budget and $450,000 in additional articles. The total spending would result in a 12.5%...

By ALEX HANSON

In meetings Wednesday, officials with the Hanover, Norwich and Dresden school districts considered cuts to budgets that will come up for approval by the districts’ boards in the next two weeks.Those discussions revealed two communities facing very...