Scott hails ‘civic engagement’ in Dover-Wardsboro merger

WARDSBORO – As he presided over creation of Windham County’s newest school district, Gov. Phil Scott saw an opportunity for a lesson in “civic engagement.”
Speaking Friday to an audience of students, teachers and parents from the merging Dover and Wardsboro school districts, Scott decried the “political rhetoric and engagement we see on the national level today.”
He also called for less contentious policy discussions in Vermont – with an implicit acknowl