BARRE — The runway is incredibly short, the landing strip could be gone before it’s time to touch down, but plans to relocate the Central Vermont Career Center are preparing for takeoff.

BARRE — Ballots cast on Town Meeting Day in the 18-town school district that operates the Central Vermont Career Center were finally tabulated Thursday, and its regional board now has a budget and three vacant seats to fill, even as it weighs when to ask voters to approve a bond for a new, state-of-the-art facility.

BARRE — The search for a new home for the Central Vermont Career Center has tentatively been narrowed from nearly 200 sites to two and neither is in Barre, where the center has operated since it opened under a different name in a wing of Spaulding High School in 1969.

The Central Vermont Career Center School District got the collective nod it needed from voters in 18 towns — most of them members of other districts where school budgets didn’t fare as well this week.

BARRE — The Central Vermont Career Center School Board notched another night of “firsts” — its first executive session and its first appointment — before agreeing to meet one more time before Vermont’s newest school district is launched on July 1. 

BARRE — Vermont’s newest school board on Monday appointed Vermont’s newest superintendent amid a flurry of decisions that set the stage for the looming launch of the Central Vermont Career Center School District. 

BARRE — It’s a tongue-twisting mouthful, but the Central Vermont Career Center School District is officially ready for its July 1 launch after Monday night’s organizational meeting in the auditorium at Spaulding High School.

As the Central Vermont Career Center School District readies for its voter-approved July 1 launch, clerks of many of its 18-member towns are advocating to change the way ballots are counted in the future.