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Despite long agenda, GM board meets for 7 minutes; legal fees go unaddressed

By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Thursday night’s Green Mountain Unified School District Board meeting ended almost as soon as it began. The board adjourned slightly more than seven minutes into the meeting over how to handle an agenda item regarding the appeal of its May 18 decision that the name Chieftain does […]

Drunk driver pleads to reduced charges in 2022 crash that injured Chester business owner

By Shawn Cunningham ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The drunk driver who ran head-on into a Chester business owner in a snowstorm on Route 103 near Gassetts in March 2022 plead guilty to a reduced charge in Windsor County Superior Court last Monday. Travis Stella of Wilton, Conn., was charged with driving under the influence and […]

A bird’s eye view of the Chester Fall Festival

 ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Thanks to drone pilot Tuck Wunderle, The Telegraph took an early Sunday morning flight over the 2023 Chester Fall Festival on the Green in beautiful Chester. The festival was held Saturday, Sept. 16 and Sunday, Sept. 17.  Weather concerns might have held some people back on Saturday, but Sunday saw […]

DRB holds first hearing on permits for Julian quarries

By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Development Review Board hearings are quasi-judicial proceedings that can be quiet, formal affairs that consist of taking testimony and checking boxes. But they can also be confrontational and charged with emotion when people disagree over development plans. The latter was what Chester DRB chair Bob Greenfield was […]

Chieftain defense costs top $10,000 thus far

By Shawn Cunningham ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Green Mountain Unified School District thus far has spent $10,000 defending its decision to continue using the word Chieftain as a mascot name, and a hearing before the Agency of Education has yet to be held. Once the hearing gets under way, those costs are expected to […]

GM School Board chair Brown reverses course; to allow comment on Zoom — with stipulations

By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Just hours after The Chester Telegraph published an article stating that the Green Mountain Unified School District Board would no longer allow comments from the public and board members who were attending a meeting remotely, the school board chair reversed course to allow remote comments after all. The […]

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  • GMUSD Board agenda for Sept. 21

    GMUSD Board agenda for Sept. 21

    The Board of the Green Mountain Unified School District will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday Sept. 21, 2023 at Green Mountain High School and via Zoom. To join the meeting remotely go to https://trsu.zoom.us/j/87656722352 I. CALL TO ORDER: A. Roll call II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: (Additions & Deletions) III. BOARD EXPECTATIONS: […]

  • College News

    College News

    Delaney Bargfrede of Chester has received the Elmira College Key Award for academic and community leadership. A tradition that goes back to 1935, the EC Key Award is presented to outstanding students in their junior year of high school or preparatory school. This year, the award was given to 783 students in 16 states. Recipients […]

  • Andover Select Board agenda for Sept. 25

    Andover Select Board agenda for Sept. 25

    The Select Board for the town of Andover will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 25 at the Andover Town Office, 953 Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes of September 11th meeting. 4. Public Comment (Time allowance: Five minutes per visitor, […]

  • Chester Select Board agenda for Sept. 20

    Chester Select Board agenda for Sept. 20

    The Chester Select Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 20 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St., and via Zoom. To access the meeting via Zoom click here. Below is its agenda. 1. Additions or Deletions to the Agenda 2. Approve Minutes from the Sept.  6, 2023 Selectboard Meeting 3. Citizen Comments/Answers from […]

  • Henry Homeyer: how to deal with invasive plants

    Henry Homeyer: how to deal with invasive plants

    By Henry Homeyer © 2023 Telegraph Publishing Most older houses are plagued with plants brought from Asia or Europe and sold to well-meaning people who didn’t know that some of those handsome plants might become invasive. By definition, invasives come from abroad, spread rapidly, do not have any natural predators to help keep them under […]

  • Avant Vermont Dance returns with SEASONS: Autumn Sept. 16

    Avant Vermont Dance returns with SEASONS: Autumn Sept. 16

    Avant Vermont Dance presents SEASONS: Autumn, a family-friendly evening of dance and interactive art making, from 5 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16 at Comtu Cascade Park, Main Street in Springfield, with a weather date of Sept. 17. Admission is by donation. Avant Vermont Dance’s company of regional dancers will showcase new works of […]

  • Get Dotty! S. Derry Library celebrates International Dot Day Sept. 16

    Get Dotty! S. Derry Library celebrates International Dot Day Sept. 16

    Children of all ages (and their grown-ups too) are invited to celebrate International Dot Day with art teacher Casey Junker Bailey at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16 at the South Londonderry Free Library, 15 Old School Road. The program is free. Everyone is encouraged to dress in dotty fashion. There will be a variety […]

  • Peru Fair set for Saturday, Sept. 23

    Peru Fair set for Saturday, Sept. 23

    The Peru Fair returns to Peru Village, on Route 11 east of Bromley Mountain, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23. Described as an old-fashioned country fair, the fair has been an annual tradition for more than 40 years. The popular parade kicks off the festivities at 9:45 a.m. This year’s celebration […]

  • Tri-Mtn. Lions Club awards game to Bellows Falls raffle winner

    Tri-Mtn. Lions Club awards game to Bellows Falls raffle winner

    Jessica Hannigan of Bellows Falls was the lucky winner of a cornhole set crafted by Terry Merrow of Londonderry in a raffle conducted by and for the Tri-Mtn. Lions Club. Hannigan’s winning ticket was drawn at the Bondville Fair; members manned a booth where they also gave out earplugs for hearing protection during the truck […]

  • Henry Homeyer: gardening better as we age

    Henry Homeyer: gardening better as we age

    By Henry Homeyer © 2023 Telegraph Publishing As a Certified Senior Citizen I sometimes wonder if I am too ambitious in my garden. I have about an acre of gardens with 200 or more kinds of flowers and a good-size vegetable garden. These gardens please me greatly, and I visit them daily all year, even […]

  • Andover Select Board agenda for Sept. 11

    Andover Select Board agenda for Sept. 11

    The Select Board for the town of Andover will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 11 at the Andover Town Office, 953 Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes of August 28th meeting. 4. Executive Session for the purpose of meeting with […]

  • Chester board bans new, unhosted short-term rentals for six months

    Chester board bans new, unhosted short-term rentals for six months

    By Shawn Cunningham ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Wednesday night, after much discussion and public comment, the Chester Select Board voted to impose a six-month moratorium on new unhosted short-term rentals beginning on Oct. 1. The suggestion for the moratorium came from Zoning Administrator Preston Bristow, who pointed out that there are seven such rentals […]

  • Vermont Republican Party sets Sept. 19 for town committee caucuses

    Vermont Republican Party sets Sept. 19 for town committee caucuses

    Earlier this week, Vermont Republican Party Chairman Paul Dame notified Vermont’s Town Clerks and the Republican Party’s local town committees that the state party has set Tuesday, Sept. 19 for the Republican Caucuses. Every two years, the Vermont Republican Party reorganizes itself from the bottom up. Every Republican voter in a town has the right […]

  • Remote meeting styles evolve with good and bad experiences, technology

    Remote meeting styles evolve with good and bad experiences, technology

      By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The recent move by Green Mountain Unified School District Board to prohibit comment from those who attend its meetings by Zoom – including board members – prompts the question of where other boards stand on the issue of remote vs. in-person meetings and what goes into […]

  • Ludlow Rotary inducts Bruce Schmidt into club

    Ludlow Rotary inducts Bruce Schmidt into club

    Bruce Schmidt, vice president and general manager of Okemo Mountain Resort, was inducted into the Ludlow Rotary Club at its Tuesday, Aug. 29 meeting. Rotarian Tom Harris, who did the induction, acknowledged Schmidt’s multiple contributions to the community over the years, including his long tenure as a Select Board member. Harris indicated that the Rotary […]

  • West River Farmers Market thanks Flood Brook School for hospitality

    West River Farmers Market thanks Flood Brook School for hospitality

    ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Members of the board of the West River Farmers Market on Tuesday presented Flood Brook School Principal Johanna Liskowsky-Doak with a bouquet of flowers and a tote celebrating the market’s 30th anniversary. Also presented was a thank you card signed by more than 45 vendors from the market. The gesture was […]

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