After a second budget to fund Lamoille North Supervisory District elementary schools failed again by a narrow margin, the district school board unanimously voted to cut just $50 dollars and bring it to a revote.

Morristown has hired its first town manager, almost a year after turnover of numerous elected and appointed town officials spurred a voter-led petition to switch to a form of government that takes day-to-day operations of the town out of the hands of a five-person selectboard.

After Town Meeting Day voters in Elmore and Morristown defeated their school budget, a second budget managed to cut $120,000 without cutting any faculty or staff.

While the Vermont Transportation Agency oversees work on the state’s network of inter-town highways, Lamoille County towns all have their own roadwork to-do lists.

As interest has grown in ranked choice voting in the Legislature, towns, interest groups and voters, the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office and the League of Women Voters of Vermont is hosting a two-part virtual to “inform debate and raise the profile of this system of voting.”

Voters in Morristown and Elmore on Tuesday rejected their school budget for the second time in six weeks, all but ensuring that the school district will have to make deeper cuts.

At the final of four monthly legislative breakfasts hosted Monday by the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, it was perhaps fitting that, as folks munched on pastries, the biggest pastry of all was the central topic of the day.

Bob Burley, a tenant at the Morrisville-Stowe Airport, said the airport was packed last week with planes, passengers and pilots who flew in to catch the sight of the total solar eclipse on April 8. He said all northern Vermont airports reported similar attendance.

With a ruling issued earlier this month, the town of Johnson has moved to enforce its dilapidated buildings ordinance for the first time to compel a property owner to clean up debris from a 2023 fire.

The Champlain Trio will open the Noon Music in May concerts presented by Stowe Performing Arts on Wednesday, May 1. The concert series, now in its fifth decade, is held in Stowe Community Church from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday during the month of May.

The Aurora Chamber Singers will present its spring concert, “Seeds of Modernism,” at the College Street Congregational Church, 265 College St., in Burlington, on Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m.

If you attended school in Montgomery, a Montgomery Elementary School potluck reunion will be held on Saturday, May 18, a noon at the Montgomery Grange Hall.

Drivers may have noticed a few forced pit stops recently.

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 Julian Scott Memorial Gallery presents a Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibit featuring Victoria Alinovi (“Shedding of the Skin”), Owen Whitney and Kate Vogan through May 3. The gallery is located on the Vermont State University-Johnson campus. For information, call 802-635-1469.

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