LETTER: Food Shelf Annual Turkey Drive is Saturday, Nov. 13
For over a decade the Waterbury Area Food Shelf has provided Thanksgiving turkeys and a bag with traditional meal fixings to those in our community in need of assistance. The Waterbury Rotary Club has kindly helped us hold our annual Turkey Drive for the past two years in order to ensure that we can continue supporting our friends and neighbors who need some help.
LETTER: The school bond and Coach Grout
Voting results of the HUUSD bond are a direct correlation to the disconnect between the communities' desires and the School Board’s desires.
Reasons for Vermonters to remember, reflect on The Night of Broken Glass
Tuesday, November 9, marks the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, the night in 1938 when Nazis and Nazi sympathizers raided synagogues, Jewish homes, and Jewish businesses throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
LETTER: Waterbury LEAP hosts Button Up workshop Nov. 13
The first true cold snap of fall is upon us and now is the time to think about how to save energy, money, and the planet during the heating season. Waterbury Local Energy Action Partnership (LEAP) is hosting a weatherization presentation on Saturday, November 13.
LETTER: It's time to split up the HUUSD
When the six towns that are in the current Harwood Unified Union School District (the HUUSD) voted to create a union school for 7th through 12th graders in 1965, the region became served by a total of seven school districts – a K-to-6 school district in each town, and a union school district for the then anticipated junior/senior high school. Seven school districts are too many for this region.
LETTER: This parent and teacher is voting YES
I believe the benefits of investing in our schools now outweigh the challenges that we will face if we put this decision off even longer.
OPINION: Prioritize wellness, vote YES on the bond
This bond will allow us to further support the social-emotional needs for our students to provide them with additional space in our school. They want this. They ask all the time for more quiet places to go because life feels so loud.
OPINION: Why I am voting NO on the school bond
Not only were students and teachers not involved in the process in any meaningful way, but there are far too many community members who have not felt heard, valued, or respected. This is a once-in-a-generation decision that deserves significantly more community involvement to get things right.
LETTER: Bond is a ‘step in the right direction’
I grew up in Vermont and have made my home in Waterbury for the last 10 years. I’m a parent to children at both Brookside Primary School and Crossett Brook Middle School, and married to an educator in the district.
OPINION: Let's talk about our schools
I serve as chair of the HUUSD School Board. I am also a parent of two current Harwood students and one recent graduate, and I spent much of last year subbing in several of our elementary and middle schools. I’d like to share a snapshot of what is happening in our district that might be different from others you have seen recently in social media.
Former school board member responds to Kerrigan on school bond
As a Harwood parent, former school board member, and partner of a current school board member, I would like to respond to John Kerrigan’s Oct. 28th letter. The Harwood he describes is a cruel caricature, and in no way reflects my family's experience.
LETTER: ‘Build our schools up’
I know there is a lot of conflicting information and many different views out there, so I want to explain why I am supporting the Harwood bond as a parent of two elementary students, community member, and teacher.
LETTER: Vote YES to fund needed high school repairs
With regard to the HUUSD Bond, the question is whether to vote YES or NO. There have been many arguments urging voters one way or the other. Harwood desperately needs repairs and voting NO doesn’t change the facts.
OPINION: It’s time to die - Vote NO on the bond
I would love it if the present students and my former colleagues had brand new state-of-the-art science labs. It would be nice to see a brand-new modern track facility at Harwood. Yes, Harwood needs renovations. Our students would greatly benefit. But now is not the time.
LETTER: Reasons to support the school construction bond
This is an incredibly difficult financial time for many people in our district, but given how our education funding works, voting no on the Harwood Unified Union School District bond could make it more financially challenging for taxpayers over time. Here are the top reasons I have supported this bond from the beginning.
LETTER: Ben & Jerry’s staff swap pumpkins, pints for record food shelf donations
Spooky Season is much less scary with friends like Ben & Jerry’s! The annual pumpkin giveaway benefitting Waterbury Area Food Shelf was once again a smashing success!
LETTER: Supporting a new Harwood gym and the school bond
My name is Tommy Young and I am a resident of Duxbury, a teacher at Waitsfield Elementary School, and the varsity girls basketball coach for Harwood Union High School. I have two children, one a Harwood graduate, and the other is currently a junior.
OPINION: Keep pets safe during trapping season, Oct. 23 - March 31
Stowe — Trapping season starts on the fourth Saturday of October each year in Vermont and runs through March 31. Each trapping season, dogs, cats, and other non-targeted animals, including protected species, are injured or killed in traps.
LETTER: Fly the banner and display the Declaration of Inclusion
Dear Waterbury Select Board,
As a resident of the wider community and a member of the Waterbury Area Anti-Racism Coalition (WAARC), I am writing to urge you to fly the “Waterbury Stands With Black Lives Matter” banner. Flying the banner in the past has been an important example of moral leadership by your group, and therefore the town of Waterbury, from which others who live in the area, as well as countless visitors, have benefitted.
LETTER: Grant keeps Brookside kids biking, scootering into fall
Brookside Primary School students are enjoying our extended summer weather by biking and scootering during PE this past week and next week.