Alex Hanson

In a sign of how heated Vermont’s education reform debate has become, the board of the White River Valley Supervisory Union has cut ties with the organization that advocates for the state’s public school boards.

In a sign of how heated Vermont’s education reform debate has become, the board of the White River Valley Supervisory Union has cut ties with the organization that advocates for the state’s public school boards.

Even before Monday’s votes on legislation that is expected to radically reshape Vermont’s education landscape, Upper Valley school officials, and a few local lawmakers, were calling for its defeat.

NEWBURY, Vt. — On a recent warm Thursday morning, four students at the Newbury School of Weaving were performing an activity once so common it would have been widely understood: They were “dressing” looms in preparation to start weaving.

For most of his nearly 67 years (his birthday is on Sunday), Gary Hamel was among the Upper Valley’s most prolific and committed visual artists.

WEATHERSFIELD — Growing up on a farm, and with an interest in food, sisters Jenna and Nora Rice were no strangers to the farm-to-table movement.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — When he was looking for a theater job close to family in southern Vermont, Jason David Monmaney found one at Northern Stage.

WOODSTOCK — The board of the Woodstock-based Mountain Views Supervisory Union voted on Monday to join a Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) with seven other supervisory unions and districts.

Many Vermonters cannot afford a safe, stable home without support, and the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust is working to develop and maintain permanently affordable housing to address this crisis.

Art Notes: What Doth Rumble returns in White River Junction