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A new play titled Battles Lost and Won, by playwright and Elmira College Professor John J. Kelly, premiered on Friday, Feb. 23 at Elmira, performed by Elmira College students including Zekiel Cammarata of Springfield. The play is set in the American Southwest, after World War II veterans return from Europe. Their battles won, they now […]
GMUSD ‘Vision Committee’ switches focus Administrators push board away from Act 46 promises
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing, LLC When the Green Mountain Unified School District board met on March 21, members pondered the reasons that voters in Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester rejected its budget on Town Meeting Day and concluded that they needed to go back to the promises of greater educational opportunities for […]
New TRSU school boards meet on budgets GM dismisses proposal; Ludlow-Mt. Holly OKs its for vote
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last week saw both of the new Two Rivers Supervisory Union districts formed under Act 46 meet to discuss their budgets. The Ludlow-Mt. Holly Unified Union School district board approved a budget to send to the voters of those towns while the Green Mountain Unified School District […]
TRSU Exec Committee votes to reopen budget Asks full board to meet to begin the process
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC Tonight, Thursday, March 22, the board chairs of both the Green Mountain Unified School District and the Ludlow-Mount Holly Unified Union District asked members of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union Executive Committee – on which they also sit – to convene a full SU board meeting to […]
TRSU Executive Committee agenda for March 22, 2018
The executive committee of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 22 at the Roost Building of the TRSU, 609 VT-103, in Ludlow. Below is its agenda. I. CALL TO ORDER: (Additions & Deletions) II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: A. Feb. 1, 2018, Exec. Committee – Special B. […]
Agendas for three Green Mountain School meetings on Wednesday, March 21, 2018
© 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Two Rivers Supervisory Union has warned three meetings for Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Wednesday, March 21 (date change due to snow) at the Cavendish Town Elementary School, 573 Main Street in Proctorsville. There will be a Food Service Committee meeting at 5 p.m., a Green Mountain Union High School […]
Taconic & Green School District budget passes by wide margin
By Bruce Frauman ©2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC Voters of the nine towns encompassing the Taconic and Green Regional School District overwhelmingly approved the five articles presented by Australian ballot on March 6, 2018, including a $32 million budget for the next fiscal year. T&G represents the Act 46 outcome of the nine towns and the […]
First GM Unified School District budget goes down in defeat
By Cynthia Prairie ©2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC The voters of the towns of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester — well, 739 of them anyway — rejected the first ever proposed budget of the new consolidated Green Mountain Unified School District. The ballots were all brought to Chester Tuesday night to be counted together since the […]
Taconic & Green board addresses school spending, March 6 vote
By Bruce Frauman ©2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC About 100 residents from the nine towns that compromise comprise the Taconic and Green Regional School District gathered in the gym at Flood Brook School in Londonderry last Tuesday, Feb. 27, for that board’s first annual meeting. They were there to discuss school articles that will be voted […]
TRSU central office, special ed. budgets OKd after three votes
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC It took three tries and some testy exchanges, but the the board of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union wrestled its way to a slightly smaller budget than proposed on the night of Thursday Feb. 22. Three weeks earlier, it had rejected the SU budget by a wide […]
GMUHS announces Honor Roll for 2nd quarter
©2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC Green Mountain Union High School has announced its 2nd Quarter Honor Roll for the 2018-2019 school year. Honors Middle School Honors are earned by those students with one off-setting grade not below a C-. (There must be an A+, A, or A- to offset the one grade of a C+, C […]
New GM school district budget information meeting Tuesday, Feb. 27
© 2018 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The first annual meeting of the new Green Mountain Unified School District will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Green Mountain High School at 716 Rt. 103 South in Chester. This will be the last opportunity residents of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and […]
College News
Forrest Lisle of Grafton was named to the Dean’s List of Fort Lewis College, based in Durango, Colo., for the fall 2017 semester. Lisle’s major is Anthropology. To be eligible for Dean’s List, a student must carry a semester GPA of 3.6 or better in no fewer than 15 credit hours of graded college level […]
TRSU Full Board meeting agenda for Feb. 22, 2018 (Rescheduled from Feb. 15 – revised agenda)
There will be a special meeting of the full board of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union on Feb. 22, 2018 at 6 p.m. in the Band Room at the Ludlow Elementary School, 45 Main Street in Ludlow. This is the budget meeting which was postponed from Feb. 15. Below is the agenda which has changed […]
Insufficient notice results in meeting postponement; TRSU budget must wait
© 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC A meeting this evening in which the Two Rivers Supervisory Union was slated to bring a revised budget for both the central office and special education program was abruptly postponed just after 2:30 this afternoon. An email from the supervisory union said, “Please note the above meeting scheduled for tonight […]
TRSU full board agenda for Thursday Feb. 15, 2018
UPDATE: At 2:40 p.m., we received notice that this meeting will be postponed to a date which has not yet been determined. We will publish the new date as soon as we have that information. The board of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15 at […]
GMUSD board picks Conn. curriculum director as GM principal
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Green Mountain Unified School District board which — beginning in July — will oversee the education of children from Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester, chose a new principal for Green Mountain High School last night. After a two-hour deliberation, the board voted unanimously to negotiate a […]
UPDATE: Meet GM principal candidates tonight before panel vote, but where?
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC If all goes according to plan tonight, the Green Mountain Unified School District board will choose one of the three finalists to replace Tom Ferenc as he retires as principal of the high school. And this afternoon will also be the only opportunity for parents and community […]
Ludlow re-vote fails, merger will go forward, BRHS to close by mid-2020
By Shawn Cunningham © 2018 Telegraph Publishing LLC A last ditch effort to keep Black River High School open fell short Tuesday night as the re-vote of the Ludlow/Mt. Holly merger failed. According to Ludlow Town Clerk Ulla Cook, the vote was 288 in favor of the merger and 231 against. Back on Nov. 28, […]
College News
Christopher Armstrong of Chester was awarded Gold Stars by The Citadel, located in Charleston, S.C., for achieving a 3.7 grade point average or higher for the 2017 fall semester. Cadets and students who achieve Gold Star recognition are also placed on The Citadel’s Dean’s List. Samantha Metcalf of Springfield has been named to the University […]
