About 20 community members were present at the Thursday evening meeting in the OVUHS auditorium with others attending via Zoom.

Specifically, the board is eyeing a spending increase of $1,149,539, from a FY23 budget of $10,773,367 to a proposed FY24 budget of $11,882,906.

Kristen Nolan Patterson, a 5’4” tall woman from Bridport, harvested a 231-pound, 7-point buck early in bow season this year.

A raucous crowd bid generously for the items, many of which were made by local residents.

The incursion of private-equity investors into nonprofit healthcare, journalism, and corrections is doing untold societal and economic damage in the service of high-speed profiteering.