Pomfret’s unpaid ambulance bills skyrocketed this year. Last year, the town paid around $4,000 to Woodstock to cover the unpaid bills of its residents. This year, it owes almost $30,000. “It was an extraordinary year for people in Pomfret calling ambulances, unfortunately,” Woodstock Municipal Manager Eric Duffy told the Standard. Currently, Pomfret pays the Town of …

Lois Watson was born March 30, 1929, in New York City, the daughter of Emanuel and Miriam (Adelson) Behrman. She graduated from Riverdale Country Day School for Girls and later Middlebury College in 1951 with a BA in French. She was fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Lois co-founded and operated an international importing business in Miami, FL with …

1 天前 · The future of Woodstock Police Chief Joe Swanson and his employment with the village sits in the hands of Municipal Manager Eric Duffy. Duffy hosted a closed-door preliminary disciplinary hearing for Swanson a week ago but made no immediate findings. “As in the past, I view this as a personnel ...

Retired Vermont Superior Court Judge Helen M. Toor has been selected to serve as the new mediator for the long-stalled civil lawsuit filed against the Woodstock Foundation and its board members that included claims of mismanagement of the Woodstock Inn and Billings Farm. Toor retired last year after serving 25 years as a trial court judge. She had earlier worked …

By Mike Donoghue, Senior Correspondent Woodstock school officials have agreed to pay nearly $100,000 to a local family to settle a civil lawsuit filed over claims of four years of bullying a student. School Superintendent Sherry Sousa signed the 5-page settlement agreement on behalf of the named defendants: the Windsor Central Supervisory Union and the Windsor Central Unified Union School ...

By Mike Donoghue, Senior Correspondent Vermont State Police say no criminal charges are expected from an investigation that led to Woodstock Police Chief Joseph Swanson being placed on paid administrative leave last month. Detective Capt. Scott Dunlap said the other two people who were involved in the Oct. 13 incident in Woodstock refused to cooperate with state police. With no statements, the ...

The Mountain Views School District (MVSD) on Monday evening acceded to input from concerned educators, parents, students, and community leaders, nixing in full controversial proposed cuts to Unified Arts, foreign language, and math and science programs while recommending a $30,773,078 budget for the ...

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By Lauren Dorsey, Staff Writer At a joint meeting in early September, Woodstock’s Village Trustees and Selectboard reignited a time-worn debate: the potential merger of the town and village. As the boards weighed whether to look into the details of a merger, their conversation echoed similar discussions that have run throughout Woodstock’s history. Woodstock’s merger discussions date ...

By Lauren Dorsey, Staff Writer In a special town meeting Tuesday night with one of the largest turnouts in two decades, Woodstock residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of acquiring the Woodstock Aqueduct Company (WAC). “We knew a lot of people cared about it, but to see us fill up the [Town Hall] theater and the upstairs conference room and then every kind of space in between was ...