Archive for August, 2021
Derry to vote Sept. 17 on cannabis sales, sales tax Information hearings set for Aug. 31, Sept. 8
The Town of Londonderry Select Board has set a special Town Meeting for Friday, Sept. 17 for town voters to decide on both cannabis legalization in the community and the establishment of a 1 percent local sales tax. Voting will take place by Australian ballot at the Londonderry Town Office at 100 Old School St., […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Sept. 1
The Chester Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at Chester Town Hall, 556 Elm St., and via Zoom. To access via Zoom: https://zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 819 8884 2129 or https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from the Aug. 18, 2021 Select Board Meeting 2. Citizen Comments/Answers from Previous Meeting […]
Service for Carol Ballou Smith set for Sept. 10
A graveside service for Carol Ballou Smith, who passed away July 26, 2021, at the age of 94, will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10 at the Brookside Cemetery on Main Street in Chester. Reverend Heidi Edson will officiate.
Chester Scouts honored for building trail shelter
Pinnacle Association trustees, the Chester Boy Scout Troop and their families gathered at the Ledge Road trailhead in Grafton on Saturday, Aug. 19, then hiked to the shelter on the Athens Dome Summit trail. The event was held to install a brass plaque in honor of the Chester troop, which built the shelter in 2017. […]
Left in Andover: ‘Hippie invasion’ irritated, but ultimately benefited Vermont
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last week I had the opportunity to sit down to dinner with Joyce Bressler. A leading member of the radical 1970s era Vermont Media Collective, Bressler arrived on the Burlington scene in 1971, a member of Gov. Deane Davis’ mythic “hippie invasion.” The seeds for her exodus from […]
Chester Chatter: Remembering Irene on its 10th anniversary
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Rain, rain and more rain. In two days the rains had turned the yard around my house into a swamp. Water ran down the street, turning it into a river. It was late August 2011 and Hurricane Irene had turned into a tropical storm that blanketed the state. […]
Henry Homeyer: Starting wildflowers from seed
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC I recently visited the Nasami Farm in Whately, Mass. This is the plant production facility for the Native Plants Trust, formerly the New England Wildflower Society. I met with Alexis Doshas, their nursery manager. The 75–acre farm produces perennials, grasses and some woody plants – mainly from seed. […]
Guide to 2021 Chester Festival on the Green
© 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC The 46th Chester Festival on the Green, know by several names over the years including the “Sale on the Green” and “the Chester Fall Festival,” remains a weekend filled with music, great arts and crafts, good food and friends set in the charming Vermont town of Chester. Like so many […]
Health Dept. employees urge stronger measures as infections, deaths rise
© 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Thursday, nearly 91 Vermont Health Department workers sent a letter to the department’s top administrators urging them to step up their Covid-19 public health guidance. Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine, who received the letter, responded later on Thursday writing: “As a department, we have to recognize that in a […]
Ludlow resident disrupts GM board meeting over masking Public forum set for Thursday as meeting over Chieftain mascot mulled
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last Thursday, the board of the Green Mountain Unified School District followed in the footsteps of the Ludlow Mount Holly District board in delegating the decisions about handling health-related issues like mask mandates to Superintendent Lauren Fierman. But before that could happen, the meeting was repeatedly and […]
Following ‘vicious dog’ hearing, Chester board orders dog impounded, sets conditions of release
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board – acting as a quasi-judicial body under state law – judged a German shepherd named Dutchess to be vicious and ordered her impounded. According to testimony given at the hearing last Wednesday night, the dog, which is owned by Michael Horton, has bitten […]
Terry Slade, 56, of South Londonderry
Terrance James Slade, 56, of South Londonderry, passed away Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021 at Mt. Ascutney Hospital following a heart attack and a several months-long battle with his health. The son of Lewis and Angeline (Hodgin) Slade, he was born Jan. 22, 1965 in Townshend. He also attended Green Mountain High School and obtained his […]
Kinhaven sends youth class home early after five employees test positive for Covid Co-director: All five have been vaccinated, are asymptomatic
By Cynthia Prairie ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Kinhaven Music School in Weston ended its two-week program for children ages 10 to 14 on Saturday, a week early, after five vaccinated employees tested positive for Covid-19. Kinhaven co-executive director Anthony Mazzocchi said on Tuesday that while the employees are asymptomatic, the school sent the children home […]
TRSU Districts to hold public forum on school opening on Aug. 26
Two Rivers Supervisory Union Superintendent Lauren Fierman and the principals of schools in the SU will hold an open meeting via Zoom at 6 p.m. on Thursday Aug. 26 where they will share information on the start of the school year and answer questions. The Zoom link is: https://trsu.zoom.us/j/87219938767
Rep. Tom Bock: Cares Act, ARPA funds give historic aid to Vermont
By Rep. Tom Bock Because of Covid-19, an unprecedented spending at the federal level, a vast infusion of federal dollars came to Vermont, leading to unprecedented levels of revenue for our state. In the spring of 2020, Vermont received $1.25 billion from the Cares Act and in the spring of 2021 we received $1.052 billion […]
CANCELLED: Grace Cottage resumes in-person classes
Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital’s Community Wellness classes have been cancelled after initially working toward resuming in September. The class lineup is as follows: Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Group – 1st Thursday of every month, 11a.m.-noon, Heins Room 1, begins Sept. 2. Facilitated group focused on the challenges of caring for people with dementia/Alzheimer’s. Led […]
To the editor: Roper’s letter incorrect, misleading
In his Aug. 17, 2021 letter to the editor Tim Roper stated the following: “Imagine you’re someone who wants a permit to use your property in some way that’s different from how it’s used now. That could be opening a business, or building a new shed, barn, garage, or accessory dwelling unit. Or maybe you […]
Left in Andover: Auctions, both poignant and lighthearted
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Auctions were a form of family entertainment when I was a kid. There seemed to be two types of auctions. The poignant kind was held on a farm where people were still living. Often they would be just selling off livestock. But sometimes it would be the whole […]
Chester Chatter: Square dancing was not for me
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC On days of bad weather or during the winter months, gym classes were held inside. But what to do when you had boys’ and girls’ gym classes to deal with at the same time? The teachers decided to teach the young people square dancing. I was not very […]
Henry Homeyer: Plan your visit to Bedrock Gardens in Lee, N.H.
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC I recently visited Bedrock Garden in Lee, N.H., and came away feeling refreshed and enlightened. This 37-acre public garden was created on the premises of a 1700s farm that was purchased in 1980 by artist and garden designer Jill Nooney and her husband Bob Munger. Jill Nooney is […]
