Archive for March, 2020
Cavendish Library adds, extends services in response to COVID-19
The Cavendish Fletcher Community Library is adding and extending services to help reduce the spread of viruses during this extraordinary season of cold, flu and the coronavirus that causes an illness called COVID-19. According to Library Director Kata Welch, the library is sanitizing all items that come into and go out of the library, and […]
Event cancellations and changes
The Chester Telegraph is compiling a list of events that have been cancelled or changed in some way due to concern over contagious Covid-19 virus. We’ll update the list as information comes in so check back daily. If you have an event to cancel or change, please send the information to info@chestertelegraph.org and we’ll publish […]
Second Vermont case of COVID-19 announced
© Telegraph Publishing, LLC The Vermont Department of Health is announcing that the second presumptive positive case in Vermont of the new coronavirus COVID-19 was reported late Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control defines a presumptive positive case as one in which the patient has tested positive by a local public health laboratory, but the […]
Business Ticker Telegraph donates $800 to Chester Rotary; SBA offers free 7-month business program
SBA offers free 7-month business course The Small Business Administration is seeking 20 business owners throughout Vermont to participate in a free business course from April to October at Vermont Technical College in Williston. This is the fifth year the SBA has held the course in Vermont. Emerging Leaders is a free executive-level training program […]
Retiring Chester town manager honored at luncheon; Cavendish fund seeks grant applicants
Chester Town Manager Pisha retires Chester Town Manager David Pisha was honored at a luncheon at Town Hall on Friday as he prepared to embark on his retirement. Numerous town employees, officials and local residents stopped by to wish the best for Pisha, who served as Chester’s town manager for 11 years, and his wife […]
Local agencies prepare to confront COVID-19
By Shawn Cunningham © 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC With one confirmed case of the coronavirus known as COVID-19 in the state of Vermont, most area towns and first responders are now beginning to organize their responses to this new health threat. The Vermont case — a Readsboro man — tested positive and is hospitalized in […]
GM’s Jr Iron Chef team preps for weekend cooking competition
© 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC This Saturday, Green Mountain High School’s Jr. Iron Chef team — called Put a Lid On It — will be taking its culinary creation to the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction to compete with teams from all over Vermont. GM’s middle school team, made up of two seventh and […]
CANCELLED: Chester Planning Commission agenda for March 16
The Chester Planning Commission will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday, March 16 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. 1. Review minutes from the February 17, 2020 meeting 2. Citizens Comments 3. Approve reporting form and Town Plan amendments 4. Discuss Wood Processing use over 6,000 square feet in […]
Obituary: Muriel Amie Walter, 92, formerly of Chester
Muriel Amie Walter, 92, died peacefully on Dec. 28, 2019 at Cedar Hill Health Care Center in Windsor. She was born Aug. 20, 1927, the daughter of Amie and Leonard Holmes of Worcester, Mass., and attended Cambridge Street Grammar School and South High School. She was influenced at an early age by a neighbor who […]
Derry board OKs new speed limits along Middletown Road
By Bruce Frauman ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC At the last meeting with Board chair Jim Ameden and member Bob Forbes before they would step aside for two newly elected board members, the Londonderry Select Board on March 2 approved speed limits on Middletown Road. After consulting online maps, the board voted to place a 40 […]
Left in Andover: A short history of hitting the road
By Susan Leader ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC The only thing I really miss about my hitchhiking days in the late ‘60s and ‘70s was the space it offered to interact constantly with people of all different walks of life. Swapping stories face to face with the people who stopped to give me rides established a […]
Chester Chatter: Friendship takes wings
By Ruthie Douglas ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC My sister Marie and I became the best of friends with Willy, who I wrote about last week. When school began in late summer, Marie and I went off to school and Willy was left behind to wait for us to come home. Soon, our playtime changed. […]
Chester DRB agenda for March 9
The Chester Development Review Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday March 9 for its regular meeting at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. It will be preceded by two site visits: One will be held at 5:10 p.m. at 3306 Green Mountain Turnpike; the second will be held at 5:30 p.m. at 48 Main […]
Henry Homeyer: Bring it on! Spring flower edition
By Henry Homeyer ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC This year I went to my vegetable garden with a snow shovel, in late February. It was a warm, sunny day, and I was ready for spring. Now people say that old timers like me are more patient than young whipper-snappers, but I’m not sure that’s true. We […]
Cavendish library board disputes Powden email that it agreed to move from CTES
By Shawn Cunningham © 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC Alittle more than 30 years after the ground breaking for construction of the Cavendish Fletcher Community Library, it was announced that that institution’s board had decided to vacate the building and move to the town Green. But the problem is that the board had never discussed that, […]
To the editor: Cavendish library board says no decisions made
The Cavendish Fletcher Community Library Board would like our community to know that we are engaged in extensive conversations about the safety of the students of CTES and all of the patrons of this wonderful public library, including the children. We are in contact with the Board of Directors of the Green Mountain Unified School […]
GM school budget passes despite large increase Newcomer Wade elected to board along with incumbents Alexander, Fromberger, Lamphere
By Shawn Cunningham ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a Green Mountain Unified School District budget that represents a 9 percent increase over last year, but also includes a number of initiatives geared at giving students the additional educational opportunities promised in the Act 46 consolidation process. The $14 million budget funds […]
Gun resolution dominates Cavendish Town Meeting
By Shawn Cunningham © 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC Thirteen minutes was all it took for the residents of Cavendish — led by moderator Mike Ripley — to fly through the legal articles on the Annual Town Meeting Warning. But a non-binding resolution regarding the right to keep firearms sparked a discussion and vote that took […]
Few disagreements at Weston Town Meeting But 'bathroom talk' dominates Wilder Library discussion
By Shawn Cunningham © 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC The post-Town Meeting lunch — prepared by the Little School — was scheduled for noon, but by 10 til 11, with 24 of 25 articles decided, Weston Town Moderator Wayne Granquist was asking the 80 voters attending to either stay or return for the chili and cornbread […]
Holden, Dakin win Chester Select Board seats Wade, Alexander eke out wins in close GM school board race
By Cynthia Prairie ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC It was inevitable that Chester voters on Tuesday would elect new members to its most important boards: The Select Board and the board of directors of the Green Mountain Unified School District which saw the only contested seats of the day. But the number of new members was […]
