Despite the governor’s pledge to hold harmless the towns charged with shorting the Education Fund, the municipalities identified in last year’s tax increment financing district audits all owe a sum back to the state, legislation passed this session states. Much … Read more
They haven’t met about it yet, but back-and-forth letters show State Auditor Doug Hoffer and Milton Town Manager Brian Palaia disagree wholly in interpreting an audit of Milton’s tax increment financing districts. The two exchanged tense, pointed letters this and … Read more
Though the cast of characters is the same, Milton’s Selectboard has new leadership in the form of Darren Adams and John Gifford, named the No.1 and 2, respectively, at an organizational meeting this month. Boards reorganize after every Town Meeting, … Read more
With additional reporting by MICHELLE MONROE, St. Albans Messenger While Georgia’s Selectboard has similar leadership for another year, the school board and library trustees both have new folks at the helm following reorganizational meetings last week. School Board Following the … Read more
Most of the talk at the March 11 Franklin County legislative breakfast in St. Albans focused on education and gasoline taxes. Every school budget in the county passed on Town Meeting Day, but many involved significant increases, in large part … Read more
Twenty-five Milton seniors, some with lineage reaching back to the town charter signing, filed into the Vermont House chamber last Friday, taking the red velvet armchairs normally reserved for state senators. The group, along with more than a dozen other … Read more
Milton officials hosted a casual breakfast for Gov. Peter Shumlin last week, during which the governor promised a swift resolution to the January 2012 tax increment financing audit that said the town owes $3.4 million to the state education fund. … Read more
Milton High School boasts three finalists this year in U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ State of the Union essay contest, landing among the top three out of 24 schools. Only Champlain Valley Union, a 1,300-student regional high school and Vermont’s second-largest, … Read more
Jacob Messineo, a Georgia Elementary and Middle School seventh-grader, was selected as one of 200 middle-schoolers nationwide to attend the Middle School Presidential Inaugural Conference this month. We wrote about his trip last month, and when given the opportunity, Jacob … Read more
After a long, dusty summer of construction, Wastewater Superintendent Roger Hunt was relieved when the town core sewer project finally ended in October. The town is proud of its project: The $3.5 million initiative laid more than two miles of … Read more