POST MILLS—Ankit Patel and family have purchased and reopened Baker’s General Store on Route 113 in Post Mills. The store officially opened for business on May 3.
Baker’s General Store, previously owned by Cameron and Kathleen Gregory, closed its doors in the fall of 2022.
HAVERHILL—Haverhill Cooperative School Board members will mull over whether to ask voters to install a school resource officer in the district’s schools.
NEWBURY—Ahead of a Vermont Supreme Court hearing later this month, the Newbury Selectboard has reiterated its plea to state officials asking them to reconsider their plans for a juvenile detention center in a rural part of the town.
The Vermont Supreme Court has set oral arguments for May 23 at 11 a.m. On May 5, state Sen. Jane Kitchel wrote to Gov. Phil Scott last week urging his administration to explore other options for the facility.
NORTH HAVERHILL—Pam Aldrich has nine students that attend her Blackmount Micro School in North Haverhill. They range from kindergarten through the sixth grade. It’s like a contemporary one-room schoolhouse. Blackmount is affiliated with Prenda, a national program which employs a four-day school week and a six-hour school day.
Pick up your copy of the JO this week for the 2023 Pet Parade pages in the B Sections (on B2, B3, B4, B5, and B6) Thank you to all our readers who shared their pets and to our local businesses that sponsored the pages and donated prizes. Winners will be announced in the May 31 issue.
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.