Archive for March, 2021
Terrigenous earns Society of Landscape Architects award for Chester tree plan
The Vermont Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has awarded Terrigenous Landscape Architecture of Chester a 2020 Planning and Analysis Award for its Chester Village Canopy Management Plan. To view the 16-page plan, click here. Correction: This link takes you to the 16-page ASLA slideshow presentation by Terrigenous. According to Scott Wunderle, owner […]
Chester Development Review Board agenda for March 22
The Chester Development Review Board will hold its regular meeting in person at Town Hall, 556 Elm St., and via Zoom after conducting two site visits on Monday March 22, 2021. The first site visit will take place at 4:30 p.m. at 847 Farrar Road and the second will be at 5:15 p.m. at 74 […]
Andover Select Board agenda for March 22
The Select Board for the town of Andover will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 22 via Zoom. To join: https://zoom.us Personal Meeting ID 869 021 5007 Passcode 146374. Or call in: 1 929 436 2866 US (New York) Below is its agenda: 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. […]
Chester Select Board agenda for March 17
The Chester Select Board will hold its regular meeting in person at Town Hall, 556 Elm Street and via Zoom at 6 p.m. on Wednesday March 17, 2021. To join the meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 In person attendance is limited, so please consider whether your physical attendance is needed or if you can participate via […]
GMUSD board agenda for March 18
The Board of Directors of the Green Mountain Unified School District will hold its regular meeting via Zoom at 6 p.m. on Thursday March 18. To join the meeting, go to https://trsu.zoom.us/j/87924956235 Below is its agenda I. CALL TO ORDER: A. Roll call II. Approval of Agenda: (Additions & Deletions) III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: A. […]
Weston board to poll homeowners on flashing speed signs
By Cherise Madigan ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Select Board decided at its Tuesday, March 9 meeting that it will be polling nearby homeowners concerning a prospective plan to place radar speed signs on either end of Route 100 entering downtown Weston, where multiple crashes near — or into — the town Green have […]
Left in Andover: The many paths to becoming
an independent woman
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC I was 14 years old when Lydia Ratcliff bought Lovejoy Brook Farm on East Hill. It was 1965, and back then, single female farm owners were not a thing. Like everyone else in Andover, I wondered how long she would last. By that age I was on the […]
Chester Chatter: Honoring Helene for Women’s History Month
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC This is the month of the woman, Women’s History Month. Who is the woman you honor? My mother-in-law, Helene Douglas, meant a lot to me. It started when I married her son and moved into their farmhouse. I was 16 and didn’t know how to run a vacuum […]
Henry Homeyer: Starting seeds – it’s time!
By Henry Homeyer ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC I love starting seedlings indoors when it’s still cold and raw outside. It makes me dream of summer and the first red tomato. For me, it is still too early to plant most things, and I certainly don’t want to have to baby my seedlings along for 12 […]
Weekly Covid Update: Emergency order extended; Chester, Ludlow to get vaxx clinics
©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Gov. Phil Scott extended Vermont’s state of emergency through mid-April in the state’s ongoing efforts to coordinate Covid-19 mitigation efforts, even as he announced additional loosening of restrictions for household gatherings and in the restaurant sector, and anticipates accelerated timelines for Vermont vaccination tiers. Meanwhile, the state also announced today that […]
Chester Planning Commission agenda for March 15
The Chester Planning Commission will hold its regular meeting in-person and via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. on Monday March 15. The meeting will be held on the second floor of Town Hall, 556 Elm Street. To join via zoom, click https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81029256359 Below is its agenda: 1. Citizen comments 2. Review responses to issues listed on […]
College News
The following student has been named to the President’s Honors List for fall 2020 at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Conn. The President’s Honors List is made up of a select group of students who earned a grade point average of 3.75 or higher in the semester. This is the GPA that must […]
Derry board delays action on Hunter Excavating proposal on taking some Transfer Station waste
By Cherise Madigan ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Select Board delayed a vote on a motion that would allow the town to begin coordinating a proposed organic waste agreement between Hunter Excavating Inc. and the town Transfer Station, pending review from Zoning Administrator Will Goodwin. According to Hunter, the plan promises benefits that “have […]
Kenneth ‘Skip’ Forbes Sr., 86, of Andover
Kenneth H. “Skip” Forbes Sr., 86, of Andover, passed away at the Jack Byrnes Center in Lebanon, N.H., on March 2, 2021. He was born Aug. 17, 1934 at home in Andover, the son of Charles and Alice Forbes of Andover. He took great pride in the work he did as the Town of Andover […]
Cavendish (and more) turns out for Jim Hasson’s 95th
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC The coronavirus pandemic has been tough on an active nonagenarian, keeping him in his rural home. But family, friends and neighbors conspired to give Jim Hasson of Cavendish a 95th birthday to remember with a parade on Sunday. As Hasson sat in a folding chair on Main […]
Sen. Clarkson: Pandemic Zooming has made Montpelier more accessible
By Sen. Alison Clarkson Town Meeting week certainly was different this year. While I missed the in-person visits, delicious food and touring around Windsor District, our virtual Zoom Town Informational Meetings enabled me to stop in to 10 gatherings. Without having to drive half an hour or 45 minutes between meetings, I was afforded the […]
VeggieVanGo comes to Townshend March 10
The next VeggieVanGo free food event, hosted by Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital of Townshend and organized by the Vermont Foodbank, will be held on Wednesday, March 10. This VeggieVanGo event takes place on the second Wednesday of the month, from noon to 1 p.m., in front of Leland & Gray Union Middle High […]
Chester recount: Numbers change, result remains Chase margin expands slightly; Blair says he'll run in 2022
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Today’s hand recount of ballots for the three-year term on the Chester Select Board that were cast last Tuesday confirmed the result and slightly widened the small margin of victory for incumbent member Heather Chase. Last Tuesday night, the tally stood at 251 votes for Chase and […]
Left in Andover: Found in translation
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Growing up, I never suspected my extended family of any deep secrets. Boy was I mistaken. Now I yearn to recreate the kitchen and Popplewood porch gatherings of my childhood, to sift for evidence. At that age, I was focused on my aunts’ cooking rather than on their […]
Chester Chatter: After WWI, Johnnie Walker finds home in Vermont
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Johnnie Walker fished the Williams River in front of my farmhouse and many times would seek a ride back up to town. That gave me a chance to really get to know Johnnie. At one point, my editor — I believe it was at the Black River Tribune […]
