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In this week’s Standard Press…

      Jeff Taff, the Burlington High School teacher who is on paid leave while the school district investigates what some contend are improper interactions with students, said Tuesday his classroom instructions at the heart of the controversy were taken out of context. In an exclusive interview with the Standard Press […]

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Snow days still exist for BASD

  Early Tuesday morning Burlington Area School District Superintendent Stephen Plank answered a lingering question as to whether snow days would exist in the new era of online virtual education. Yes, students, snow days still exist. In an automated telephone message to district families sent about 5 a.m. Tuesday Plank […]

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Witness to an insurrection

Burlington grad was working for U.S. rep during capitol riot By Jason Arndt Staff Writer Burlington native Scott Rausch had a typical start to his day as deputy chief of staff and legislative director for U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-New York, on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C. Rausch, who graduated […]

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In this week’s Standard Press…

      So what was it like for those who were working at the U.S. Capitol and surrounding office buildings on Jan. 6, the day rioters staged a violent insurrection? Burlington High School graduate Scott Rausch, an aide for a Republican Congressman from New York, knows – and it’s left an […]

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Stock+Field will close local store

Retailer was key to revival of shopping center By Ed Nadolski Editor in Chief Stock+Field, which helped revive Burlington’s Fox River Plaza shopping center when it arrived as a Big R store in 2017, is closing along with the company’s 24 other stores in the Midwest. Stock+Field’s corporate entity filed […]

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In this week’s Standard Press…

      It was a double whammy this week for local shoppers as two Burlington stores announced major changes. Stock+Field, formerly Big R, announced that it will close all 25 of its stores – including the one in Burlington’s Fox River Plaza – after filing for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy Sunday. […]

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Burlington’s top news stories of 2020: No. 2 – Coronavirus changes life as we know it

Pandemic effects businesses, schools and everyday life Burlington residents joined others in the state, across the country and the world in absorbing the global gut-punch that is the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. The disease prompted a government-ordered shutdown of non-essential business and schools in April and May and fundamentally changed […]