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.

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