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BMU board faces budget challenges

WELLS RIVER—The Blue Mountain Union School Board is still revising a budget that will go before town meeting voters in March. Meeting on Jan. 7, board members reviewed preliminary drafts that showed tax rates could rise as much as 31% in Ryegate, 27% in Wells River, and 19% in Groton.

Board opts against health order

BRADFORD—The Bradford Selectboard declined to pursue a health order against the owners of a Lower Plain residential property that had accumulated trash, junk, and other waste.

Bradford FD has new chief

BRADFORD—Nate Brooks is the new Bradford Fire Department Chief. The selectboard appointed him to a three-year term after BFD members recommended him for the post.

OUUSD board preps food service bid

BRADFORD—At the Dec. 30 meeting, the Oxbow Unified Union School Board received a lengthy presentation about the food service program that provides meals for Newbury Elementary School and Oxbow High School.

Asylum seeker jailed on weapons charges

BURLINGTON—A Mexican man, who entered the nation illegally and disappeared in 2022 in Vermont after trying to claim asylum, has been jailed on a federal charge for unlawfully attempting to buy a firearm from a Central Vermont gun store last month.