The Ticonderoga Central
School District is facing budget
issues. The district is trying to close
a $600,000 budget gap. The
superintendent says he wants to limit the number of layoffs, but worst-case
scenario 15 staff members could be cut.
Some members of the community have expressed concern over cuts to the
athletic programs but officials say they will not be cut. Instead, the district may have to cut some
lower-level programs. The cuts would
begin next year.
AARP Vermont and the Vermont Attorney General's office is
holding fraud prevention forums in South Burlington and Rutland
on April 29 and 30. People over the age
of 50 are especially vulnerable and account for more than half of all
victims. The South Burlington Forum is
being held on Monday from 10 AM to 11:30 at the DoubleTree
Conference Center
on Williston Road . The Rutland Forum will be held on Tuesday
from 10 AM to 11:30 at the Holiday Inn on Route 7. Both events are free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
Now that petitioners have triggered a re-vote on the Brandon
town budget after it passed on Town Meeting Day by eight votes, the stage is
set for voters to ask their long-awaited questions. An informational meeting about the budget
will be held at the Neshobe School
Monday night at 7 o’clock . The Brandon
selectboard will take budget questions from voters. Residents will then re-vote on Tuesday.
Firefighters say a cement truck ruptured a Vermont
natural gas line in Hinesburg last night.
Vermont Gas says the truck hit a valve.
They say the damaged valve didn't pose a serious risk, but crews closed
down Shelburne Falls Road
to O'Neil Road until
Vermont Gas could turn off the flow of gas.
Jiffy Mart, across the street from the construction zone, was evacuated
as a precaution. No one was hurt.
The Charlotte Central School Board has been busy this week preparing
to present a revised budget to residents at a public hearing on Monday
Night. Since Town Meeting Day, the CCS
School Board has held two meetings to discuss weather to live without some
funding or present the same budget again to voters. Residents on Tuesday will be weighting in on
the second portion of the overall budget proposal known as Part B because it
required a second vote due to a legislative technicality. The CCS School Board’s public hearing on the
matter will be Monday Night at 6:30
in the school’s multi-purpose Room. Voting
will take place on Tuesday in the same place from 7
AM to 7 PM .