Stowe voters Tuesday rejected a $39 million bond to pay for a comprehensive overhaul of the Stowe High School and Middle School campus, leaving the school district to find other ways to address what officials say are overdue issues with the half-century-old building.

A year after the underdog Peoples Academy Wolves knocked off Stowe on its way to an eventual Division III boys’ soccer title, Stowe made sure that 2023 was the year of the overdog.

The integration of all aspects of health care, from the basics like housing and food security to psychiatric care and the long-term treatment of chronic ailments, has become the guiding mission for Lamoille Health Partners.

A week ahead of a vote on a $39 million bond to fund extensive renovations to Stowe’s middle and high school campus, students have added their voices to the chorus.

The Stowe selectboard is elbow deep in dense zoning bylaw revisions meant to bring local rules up to par with new state law that would allow denser development meant to encourage more housing.

Robust growth in Stowe’s property portfolio and a new local tax instituted this summer could spell record revenues for the town. That’ll come in handy as the town looks to pay its town employees more and tackle some infrastructure that is showing its age.

A one-on-one with World Cup and Olympic alpine ski racer Ryan Cochran-Siegle will take place virtually on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. as part of the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum’s Red Bench speaker series.

Throwback Thursday

The Stowe boys beat archival — and defending champions — Peoples Academy Friday, shutting out the Wolves 3-0.

Abigail Synnestvedt offers “Devotions,” a Master of Fine Art exhibition at the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery on the campus of Vermont State University-Johnson from Nov. 14 to Dec. 15, with a reception and artist talk on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Synnestvedt’s “Grape Hyacinth on Christmas Plate,” oil on aluminum flashing, 2023, is shown here.

Mt. Mansfield serves as a wintry backdrop in this quintessential Vermont scene from Cambridge.

Morrisville youth were honored at the Vermont Statehouse for their completion of the 2023 Seven Days Good Citizens Challenge. Because of their efforts, the Morristown Centennial Library received a $500 gift from Vermont Humanities.

Rita Menard at Cambridge Family Practice moves between exam rooms. The practice was recently acquired by Lamoille Health Partners as part of its move to integrate health care services in Lamoille County.

For Stowe soccer fans, tonight was twice as nice, as the boys won their Division III state championship game two hours after the girls won theirs. The top-seeded Raiders defeated archrival and No. 2 seed Peoples Academy 3-0.

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