WAITS RIVER—Less than 50 voters from Corinth and Topsham approved a $7.3 million operating budget for the Waits River Valley School in 2023-2024 at the annual district meeting on May 1. In a hand count, the budget article was approved 39-9.
BRADFORD—With only one vote in opposition, the Bradford Selectboard approved a request by Norwich Technologies to install electric vehicle charging stations in the parking area below Denny Park.
ORFORD—The Orford Selectboard voted to hold on to a decommissioned police cruiser and transfer it to the highway department. The vote came during a regular meeting on April 26.
BRADFORD—Looking to the future with lessons learned from the past has been Oxbow Unified Union School Board’s focus in preparing a budget for the 2023-2024 school year. The annual meeting of the Oxbow Unified Union School District will take place May 9 at 6 p.m. at Oxbow High School and the voters will consider the $18,396,315 budget, a 5.154% increase over the current year.
NORTH HAVERHILL—“We are going back to the moon!” That is what nearly 800 students in the SAU #23 School District learned on April 20 after attending assemblies profiling NASA’s Moon to Mars program. After a morning session at Woodsville High School, guest speaker Rosa Avalos-Warren moved on to the Haverhill Cooperative Middle School where students there were joined by peers from Bath, Piermont, Warren, and Woodsville elementary schools.
WELLS RIVER—Wells River approved a budget roughly 25% less than last year after the small village fully privatized its highway department among other administrative changes.
BURLINGTON—A federal court jury needed about two hours before deciding a St. Johnsbury man was guilty of kidnapping a 23-year-old mother and her son four years ago, and stealing two cars and taking them across state lines.
For over two centuries, druggists and pharmacists have dispensed remedies and medicines to physicians and the general public. Some were standalone businesses, while others were housed in general stores. This column covers the local history of medicines and cures as they transitioned from home remedies to patent medicines to modern drugs sold by registered pharmacies. Local histories and vintage newspapers are sources.
BURLINGTON—A federal court jury is expected to wrap up its work this week in the case of a St. Johnsbury man charged with the abduction of a woman and her son four years ago and taking them across state lines after he fled a drug rehabilitation facility in Bradford.
WOODSVILLE—A Woodsville man can avoid prison after pleading guilty to charges related to an attempt to solicit sex from a teenage girl.