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College News

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Castleton senior Morgan Hart of Weston is Instagraming her way through Vermont. With a set goal of visiting all 251 towns across the Green Mountain State before she graduates in May, the history major is well under way to accomplishing it. “I started this goal in August because I love Vermont and I realized there […]

Just the right bite: cranberry mini muffins

Just the right bite: cranberry mini muffins

By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com Just like the classic cocktail in flavor, these muffins are easy, delicious and will give you a natural high after one bite.     Nonstick cooking spray 12 mini muffin liners, optional 2 cups flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 eggs, beaten 3 tablespoons […]

Black River Produce sold to midwest food giant

Black River Produce sold to midwest food giant

By Shawn Cunningham and Cynthia Prairie © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Reinhart Foodservice, the nation’s fifth largest distributor of food to restaurants and institutions with 29 warehouses in the east, midwest and south, announced Friday that it has agreed to buy the brand names and distribution business of Springfield based Black River Produce. Some aspects […]

Chester Select Board meeting for Oct. 19, 2016

Chester Select Board meeting for Oct. 19, 2016

The Chester Select Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday Oct. 19 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. Approve Minutes from Oct. 5, 2016 Select Board meeting and Oct. 5, 2016 Executive Session Citizen Comments Old Business Appoint Master Plan Committee Member Child Safety Ordinance Response from the Town’s Attorney […]

Grafton Select Board meeting for Oct. 17, 2016

Grafton Select Board meeting for Oct. 17, 2016

The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. Public Comment Adopt Agenda Adopt Minutes: October 3, 2016 Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll Highway Report Industrial Wind Proposal: Public Meeting Dates Industrial Wind Proposal: Survey/Poll Update Industrial Wind Proposal: Attorney […]

Derry area solid waste group to hold public meeting Oct. 18

Derry area solid waste group to hold public meeting Oct. 18

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Solid Waste Group, which serves the towns of Landgrove, Londonderry, Peru, Weston and Windham, will hold a public meeting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18 at the Londonderry Town Office, 100 Old School St., South Londonderry. The purpose of the meeting is to offer members of the […]

Andover woman injured in crash on I-91

Andover woman injured in crash on I-91

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC A 34-year-old Andover woman was injured this afternoon after police say a drunken driver collided with her SUV on I-91. According to press release this evening from the Vermont State Police, at about 3 p.m. today, Erik Polite, 37 of Newport, Vt., was reportedly driving erratically on I-91 in the […]

Jiffy Mart closes, Jiffy Mart opens

Jiffy Mart closes, Jiffy Mart opens

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC With the clock ticking up toward a 2 p.m. closing time yesterday, employees at the Jiffy Mart at Main and Depot streets in Chester were telling each customer that the store would be locking its doors for good shortly, but the new store at Main and Pleasant streets would be […]

Chester Master Plan steering committee expands to 10; other appointments on hold

Chester Master Plan steering committee expands to 10; other appointments on hold

By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The long awaited master planning process for downtown Chester is about to begin its year-long run and at its Oct. 5 meeting, the town’s Select Board was slated to appoint its steering committee, but there was a twist. As late as Wednesday morning at the Chester Economic […]

Chester Police Log, July 1 through Oct. 5, 2016

Chester Police Log, July 1 through Oct. 5, 2016

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Chester Telegraph Police Log is a sampling of incidents directly from Chester Police reports. In general, we do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Friday, July 1, 7:04 a.m. An Andover resident reported that her home had been broken into, cabinets […]

Chainsaw carvers create buzz in Cavendish

Chainsaw carvers create buzz in Cavendish

Photos and Story by Kevin Kunze ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Amid chainsaws buzzing like a musical ensemble more than 100 spectators sit in a semicircle of timber benches. Three wood carvers are quick-carving wood sculptors, with chips flying, creating art. Within an hour, they were finished and their works were auctioned off. An 8-foot tall […]

VSP continues to search for teen

VSP continues to search for teen

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC In a press release this evening, the Vermont State Police in Westminster advised that they are continuing to “actively search” for 17 year-old Autumn Sanville who was last seen Thursday morning, Oct. 6, near the boat landing in Springfield. Sanville is 5’4″ tall and weighs 120 pounds. She has brown […]

To the editor: Thanks to all who made Weston Town Green celebration a success

To the editor: Thanks to all who made Weston Town Green celebration a success

Weston’s Town Green came alive on Sept. 4 with more than  200 people at its annual community picnic and concert, celebrating 130 years of the Town Green. The “Ladies of the Green,” Trustees and maintainers of the park wish to thank the many people whose volunteer work made it such a success:  The Blue Flames Steel […]

Grafton Planning Commission meeting for Oct. 11

Grafton Planning Commission meeting for Oct. 11

The Planning Commission for the Town of Grafton will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. Public Comment Minutes: Sept 13, 2016, Sept 26, 2016 Town Plan Revision: Review revised Flood Resiliency Chapter with pictures and diagrams; Review marked-up maps in map chapter; […]

Windsor Senate candidates to attend Oct. 20 forum

Windsor Senate candidates to attend Oct. 20 forum

Friends of Ludlow Auditorium will sponsor a candidate’s forum at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20 in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium at 37 Depot St. in Ludlow. Candidates for the three Windsor County Senate seats along with the two candidates for the Rutland-Windsor-2 House seat in Montpelier have been invited to participate in this […]

Community events: Oct. 13 through Oct. 18, 2016

Community events: Oct. 13 through Oct. 18, 2016

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. Notices must be received by noon on Fridays to be eligible for publication the following week. Oct. 13: Are you eligible for no-cost weatherization? Harald Schmidtke, […]

Phoenix Books goes mobile; surgeon joins Springfield Hospital

Phoenix Books goes mobile; surgeon joins Springfield Hospital

Phoenix Books to take its stores on the road Phoenix Books, with stores in Chester, Rutland, Burlington and Essex, is ready to hit the road with its new book van. Owner Mike DeSanto said, “There is an untapped market for increased sales to off-site customers and we need a vehicle to get the books to […]

Begin planning now for that inevitable day

Begin planning now for that inevitable day

By Kevin Theissen Skygate Financial Group, LLC National Estate Planning Awareness Week (Oct. 17-23)  is a reminder for all of us to make sure our affairs are in order. Estate planning is a critically overlooked component of financial wellness. More than half of Americans, an estimated 56 percent, do not have an estate plan in […]

Rustic lentil stew perfect with crusty bread

Rustic lentil stew perfect with crusty bread

By Jim Bailey theyankeechef.blogspot.com If you have never pureed cooked carrots as a thickening and flavoring agent to a stew, you are in for a treat. With the addition of some slight sweetness in the way of dried fruit, this hearty stew is a great entree by itself … with the addition of some crusty […]

Grafton Select Board to hold hydrology forum Monday, Oct. 10

Grafton Select Board to hold hydrology forum Monday, Oct. 10

The Grafton Select Board has called a special meeting for 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10 at the White Church in Grafton to hold a hydrology forum. Invited participants: David Deen, chair, House Committee on Fish, Wildlife, and Water; Geoff Goll, vice president, Princeton Hydrology; John Bennett, senior planner, Windham Regional Planning Commission; Billy Coster, director […]