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Upcoming events: Community Cares dinner and senior club luncheon; events at area libraries; outdoor adventures for all ages and rummage sales

Upcoming events: Community Cares dinner and senior club luncheon; events at area libraries; outdoor adventures for all ages and rummage sales

For more upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph calendar. To be included in our Upcoming events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@www.chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. Clubs & organizations 3rd Annual Spaghetti Dinner to benefit local seniors The third Annual Spaghetti Dinner hosted by Community Cares Network of Chester-Andover Inc. will be […]

Weston Playhouse awarded $15,000 NEA grant

Weston Playhouse awarded $15,000 NEA grant

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company a $15,000 grant to, in part, support the newly developed American Masters Series, which seeks to bring both iconic and contemporary master theater works to the stage. American Masters launches late this summer, with Tennessee Williams’ drama The Glass Menagerie, which will […]

Blooming Chester: Townscape seeks donations for planters

Blooming Chester: Townscape seeks donations for planters

It’s springtime in Chester. The daffodils, planted by Chester Townscape, are blooming beside the Hearse House, Public Tomb, Brookside Cemetery and Civil War Monument and serve as reminders that growing weather has arrived and that it’s time to order new flower pots or to replant ones purchased last year. These planted pots will give a […]

Windham Co. meetings to address economic development strategies

Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies will host four regional meetings to update members of the community about the progress toward implementing the Windham region’s federally recognized Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies. Anyone from any part of the Windham region is welcome to attend any of the sessions regardless of their town of residence.  Each meeting will […]

GMUHS Board of Directors meeting agenda for Thursday May 14, 2015

The Green Mountain Union High School Board of Directors will meet in the conference room at GMUHS,  716 VT Rt 103 S. in Chester, at 6 p.m. May 14, 2015 for its regular meeting. Below is its agenda. I. Call to Order a. Roll Call II. Approval of Agenda III. Approval of Minutes a. Minutes […]

Two grants aid Chester, Springfield businesses

Two grants aid Chester, Springfield businesses

Springfield Regional Development Corp. is the recipient of two $15,000 grants to support a pair of economic development projects in the region. The projects involve Drew’s LLC of Chester and Vermont Beer Shapers of Springfield. The awards were part of the Regional Economic Development Grant Program, administered by the Department of Buildings and General Services. […]

Delivering the flavors of a pear in a delectable dessert

Delivering the flavors of a pear in a delectable dessert

By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com A cross between a cake and a flan, this delectable dessert is chock full of pear flavor. I advise taking the time to use your own poached pears, but if that is not feasible, canned pears are a perfectly acceptable substitute. I will give you both preparations so you can decide. *Refer […]

Special Chester Select Board meeting for May 12, 2015

The Chester Select Board will hold a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 12 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda.  Citizen Comments  Sign Green Lantern Agreement  Adjourn

UPDATE- Quick response stops Baileys Mills brush fire

UPDATE: 7:50 a.m. Friday May 8. According to the Chester Fire Department, the cause of the fire (approximately 100′ by 300′) was “a large ash pile that had been emptied onto a week prior.” The fire department reminds the public that a large ash pile can continue to be hot in the middle for weeks.  […]

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Chester Development Review Board agenda for Monday, May 11, 2015

The Chester Development Review Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 11 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester following a 5 p.m. site visit at 89 VT Rt. 103 S at VT Rt. 11 E. Below is its agenda. Review minutes from last meeting Continuation of Dalio Preliminary Plat / Re-subdivision […]

Part 1 - A Closer Look: The long and winding road toward a municipal gravel source

Part 1 – A Closer Look: The long and winding road toward a municipal gravel source

By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC This is the first in a two-part series on the water and gravel projects proposed for the town of Chester. Next week: Do water and gravel mix? On Tuesday, May 19, Chester voters will be asked to decide whether to go forward with a $4 million water […]

Suspicious fire razes Londonderry home; Andover fire goes underground, prompting sleepless night for firefighters

Suspicious fire razes Londonderry home; Andover fire goes underground, prompting sleepless night for firefighters

By Shawn Cunningham ©2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Tuesday continued to be a busy day for firefighters throughout the region, with Chester crews staying overnight in Andover to monitor what has turned into a ground and root fire and with South Londonderry firefighters responding to a pre-dawn house fire at 2687 Under the Mountain Road. Crews […]

Firefighters stop 'red flag' day fire in Andover just short of hangar, home

Firefighters stop ‘red flag’ day fire in Andover just short of hangar, home

By Shawn Cunningham 2015 © Telegraph Publishing, LLC Fire companies, including Chester, were staying on the scene of what remained of an intense brush fire late Monday night that began in the late afternoon off Cobb Road in Andover and spread up the hill to a home and airplane hangar on East Hill Road. According […]

Drug operation said to be cause of Saturday night fire

Drug operation said to be cause of Saturday night fire

By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC A Saturday night blaze on Route 10 in Chester was caused by a “drug operation,” according to Chester Fire Chief Matt Wilson in an interview on Sunday afternoon. Just after 8 p.m. the Chester Fire Department was called out for a structure fire at 1831 Route 10, […]

Upcoming events: Classic and Christian music, comedy and documentary films, benefit food drives and plant sales, discussions on hunger and river health and a theater tour of London

Upcoming events: Classic and Christian music, comedy and documentary films, benefit food drives and plant sales, discussions on hunger and river health and a theater tour of London

For more upcoming events, click here for The Chester Telegraph calendar. To be included in our Upcoming events briefs, email Susan Lampe-Wilson at calendar@www.chestertelegraph.org. Photos welcome. No PDFs, please. May 7: Orchestra members to entertain Rotary Club Windham Orchestra conductor Hugh Keelan and local Chester musicians — Dr. Sarah Kemble and Dr. Susan Lemei — […]

Weston Playhouse Theatre Co. wraps 8th annual Artists Retreat

Weston Playhouse Theatre Co. wraps 8th annual Artists Retreat

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Co. concluded its 8th annual Artists Retreat with an Artists Salon and Reception at the Wilburton Inn in Manchester on Saturday, May 2.  Actors, composers, directors and playwrights who had spent the week living and working in Weston spoke about and shared examples from their work before an invited group of theater […]

St. Luke's to celebrate new rector

St. Luke’s to celebrate new rector

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Chester will host a Celebration of New Ministry at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 6 when Bishop Tom Ely will formally institute the Rev. Heidi L. Edson as St. Luke’s new rector. A reception will follow in Willard Hall. Members of the Chester and surrounding communities — families and children alike […]

GMUHS announces 3rd quarter Honor Roll

GMUHS announces 3rd quarter Honor Roll

Green Mountain Union High School has released the names of those making the Honor Roll for the 3rd quarter. Honors Middle School Honors are earned by those students with one off-setting grade not below a C-. (There must be an A+, A, or A- to offset the one grade of a C+, C or C-). High […]

May deals a handful of ‘wild card’ good reads

May deals a handful of ‘wild card’ good reads

By John Hoover ©2015 The Chester Telegraph After several months of setting a specific theme for the staff at Misty Valley Books, I’ve made May a “wild card” month, allowing the staff to choose any book they want. As I looked at their selections I was amazed at the breath of interests represented in what […]