David Delcore, Times Argus Journalist Profile

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Spaulding graduates show energy

4 days ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

BARRE — There was no “rising Tide” when there should have been on Saturday, but the fact that Spaulding High School’s Class of 2025 graduated sitting down mattered to absolutely no one. Not the graduates who were supposed to be standing when Superintendent JoAn Canning finally instructed them to move their tassels from right to left during a 70-minute ceremony held on A.G. Pendo Memorial Field. Not their families and friends who filled the bleachers and spilled out on to the sun-soaked field.
Williamstown graduates prove 'sass for smiles'

4 days ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

WILLIAMSTOWN — A class with “sass for miles” graduated all smiles beneath a huge tent pitched in a corner of the playing fields behind what is now their old school Friday evening. By all accounts, Williamstown's Class of 2025 — all 33 of them — will be missed. So, said Principal Gerry Hudak, who spoke of “milestones” and “memories” in his opening remarks, while making some parting requests of the soon-to-be-graduates all seated on the stage behind him.
CVCC celebrates success

1 week ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

BARRE — If you asked students who strode across the stage at the Barre Municipal Auditorium on Wednesday night how they spell “success,” it wouldn’t have been at all surprising if the most common answer was: “C-V-C-C.”Those four letters got a workout Wednesday night when the Central Vermont Career Center held its year-ending awards ceremony in central Vermont’s most storied gymnasium.
Revised conduct ordinance advances amid mixed reviews in Barre

1 week ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

BARRE — A radically rewritten ordinance, still aimed at curbing bad behaviors in Barre, drew mixed reviews during another protracted public hearing Tuesday night.
CVCC board readies for summer-long sales pitch for new $149 million center

1 week ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

BARRE — The numbers have all been crunched, the best estimates are in hand, and the board responsible for running the Central Vermont Career Center is poised to pop a $149 million question amid massive uncertainty involving the future of public education in Vermont.
It's 'goal to go' for BADC after owners cut price of former 'five-and-dime'

1 week ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

BARRE — Hope of buying and razing a derelict downtown commercial property — potentially paving the way for some new big thing — just received an unexpected boost. Even as it looked like an ambitious campaign launched by Barre Area Development Corp. earlier this year would fall considerably short of its $1.1 million target, the deadline shifted, the price dropped and, what once would have required a successful “Hail Mary,” is suddenly more like a red-zone opportunity.
Estimated cost of new career center drops as CVCC board weighs bond

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

BARRE — The lower-end estimate for building a new, standalone, state-of-the-art facility to house the Central Vermont Career Center is suddenly the upper-end estimate, and that $150 million figure could be on the ballots in 18 central Vermont towns come November.
Montpelier flood mitigation project clears key hurdle,

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

MONTPELIER — A major flood plain restoration project is halfway home after city councilors authorized the city manager to execute a series of documents that clear the way for the city to assume ownership of a historic but problematic property on Home Farm Way. On a night when councilors inched closer to adopting a new City Plan and refused to sideline some city committees, they checked a big box on their flood resiliency to-do list.
Washington Central confronts preschool problem as Turtle Island balks at lease

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

EAST MONTPELIER — The Washington Central Unified Union School District has a pre-school problem, and not only because Turtle Island Children's Center just politely declined an offer to lease space at the district's smallest school.
Montpelier commission proposes quick fixes to zoning

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | David Delcore

MONTPELIER — A series of proposed zoning changes that would make housing-hungry Montpelier more development friendly will soon be forwarded to the city council for its expedited review. Planning commissioners approved the short list of interim zoning changes Monday night, even as the council was poised to consider making dozens of changes to its last big project.