Waterford's Stories: Summer Begins, 2025

Summer vacation has arrived! If you'd like a peek at the 2025-2026 Waterford School calendar, it's here. 

There will soon be more Waterford stories on the blog site. Meanwhile, here's the 1957 Town Report, as a reminder of when the town's district schools gave way to education for all in one building. At a time of challenges to education funding (again!), it's good to recall how significant this change was for our community. 

When Waterford Began Its Kindergarten

These pages from 1970 give a good view of the issues at stake as Waterford's school expanded to include kindergarten. For today's readers, it may be surprising to learn that kindergartens weren't common in northeastern Vermont in the 1960s and early 1970s. Concord's collaboration in this presentation is also interesting, as this preceded the movement to tie together education across town lines.

1970: The Year Waterford Voted on a Kindergarten