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With no budget, a room full of parents and residents looking for answers, and the deadline looming for coming up with a school construction bond, the Harwood Union school board tried last Thursday to forge a path forward.

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Harwood school board members and school officials have their work cut out for them. In the coming months, they will tackle a trio of issues, each of which would be challenging on its own, but together will test the abilities and the limits of people responsible making the hard decisions.

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After a turbulent town meeting, Duxbury’s new select board met Monday to figure out what’s going on with the millions of dollars in grant projects the town has on its plate, and to look at the corresponding paperwork.

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After months of acrimony with district officials, parents and taxpayers unhappy with proposed changes went to the polls and defeated the proposed Harwood school budget by almost 800 votes.

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Harwood won the Division 2 championship, 3-2 — its first boys hockey title since 2005 and its third ever.

Without taking a single shot, the Harwood Union High School girls basketball team became co-champions in Division 2.

A cyclist gets waylaid by the barriers near the top of Smugglers’ Notch in Cambridge.

The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) sticks to “densely vegetated wetlands – think big cattail marshes – where they both nest and feed.”

The 2024 Chittenden County 4-H Hippology contest attracted 13 participants including, front row, from left, Grace Peterson, Essex; Fiona Adams and Ian Kascha-Hare, Milton; Nora Kidder, Cambridge; and Avery Minor, Fairfax. In back, Saige Prisco, Milton; Anna-Lise Coolidge, Westford; Mikayla Tobey, Fairfax; Josie Kascha-Hare and Addison Tomasi, Milton; and Emma Babyak, Claire Romano and Aubri Richards, all from Fairfax.

The Route 15 project is estimated to run through this fall and include some work next summer.

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