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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...

By AUDITI GUHA

More than 100 people have signed a petition calling for the resignation or removal of Sherry Sousa, the superintendent of the Mountain Views Supervisory Union, in the wake of a VTDigger story last month about persistent racial harassment a 13-year-old Black student faced at Woodstock Union Middle and High School.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — The Mountain Views school board has named the Woodstock Union Middle and High Schools’ interim principal to the permanent post.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — The Mountain Views School Board voted this week to approve a $30.8 million budget that includes all of the unified arts and two math and science positions slated for elimination in earlier budget versions.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

WOODSTOCK — A divided Mountain Views School Board voted 8-7 at a special meeting Monday night to restore all of the unified arts positions eliminated in an initial budget proposal first presented to the board last month. The original proposal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By ROSE TERAMI

WOODSTOCK — Woodstock Union High School’s Class of 2022 received their diplomas in green and gold gowns on Friday night in “the bowl” behind the school — a grassy natural amphitheater — where about 400 guests sat on blankets and in chairs overlooking...

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — A proposed new middle and high school for Woodstock and six surrounding towns would cost an estimated $73.3 million, a figure that a committee studying the project thinks will not pass muster with taxpayers without other funding sources.At...

By ADAM BOFFEY

MERIDEN — Cory McClure is off to a good start at Kimball Union Academy.The new boys basketball coach has the Wildcats sitting at 15-3 with 10 games left in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class AA regular season. KUA extended its...

Staff Reports ORFORD — Rivendell Academy senior Zach Gould has played most every position on a soccer field, save for one. He got to try it for about 10 minutes of his senior game on Friday.Rivendell boys soccer coach Kevin Brooker made an offer to...