Pownal

POWNAL -- Two local libraries received thousands of dollars worth of electronic equipment Tuesday from the e-Vermont grant program. The Solomon Wright Public Library in Pownal and the Martha Canfield Library in Arlington had the equipment personally delivered by Martha Reid, head librarian of the state Department of Libraries and Regional Librarian Amy Howlett. The Pownal library received three scanners -- two double as printers -- two laptops, a desktop computer, a few power strips, memory sticks, and computer mice. In Arlington, the library received three computers and a printer.

ARLINGTON -- The holidays are over, but you wouldn’t know it sitting in the Fisher Elementary fourth and fifth grade classrooms Monday. As part of the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project, the students received new netbook computers and printers to use for the remainder of the school year. Pownal Elementary four and fifth graders received the same...

POWNAL -- Technology was the topic of much of the conversation at a recent Pownal school board meeting, at which an update on new student netbooks was given, as well as information about an afterschool computer club...

...Pownal is one of 12 communities statewide selected by e-Vermont, which is funded with federal stimulus money through the Vermont Council on Rural Development.

POWNAL, Vt. -- Pownal is one of 12 communities statewide chosen to be a part of the e-Vermont Project, which is funded by money from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act through the Vermont Council on Rural Development, James Boutin, chairman of the Pownal Communications and Image Committee said Monday.

One of the first things the community will see from participation in the project will be 50 Dell Netbooks assigned to the third- and fourth-graders at Pownal Elementary School.