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The quarter-million-dollar closing of the Westminster West School

The quarter-million-dollar closing of the Westminster West School

The Westminster West School was unsustainable, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep it open — a fiasco that highlights the need for Act 46 today

Three years ago, the Westminster School Board was going to vote to close the Westminster West School. I was at the center of the scandal and quit the school board a few weeks later.

The school eventually had to close just as I had warned, but only after costing an extra quarter million dollars to keep it awkwardly open for two additional years.

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A modest proposal

Here's a modest proposal: a swap of westbound road names for Brattleboro and Westminster. Both towns have only one paved road to their west villages. Westminster's road is free of potholes and worthy of a grand-sounding name like “Western Avenue” to go along with “King's Highway.” The Patch family...

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