Archive for 2022
Stratton Mountain School celebrates its history with a reimagined SMS-A-Thon
Stratton Mountain School recently raised more than $17,000 during its SMS-A-Thon in support of its community life programming. This year’s SMS-A-Thon, a marquee event for Stratton Mountain School’s 50th anniversary, was hosted by the school and was open to all students, staff, alumni, trustees and friends. An all-day event, the 2022 SMS-A-Thon was a reimagined […]
Chester plans Green Up Day activities
Green Up Day is Saturday, May 7. So grab your green bags and some friends and get ready to clean up Chester’s streets. Bags will be available at: Whiting Library, 117 Main St. Chester Hardware Store, 21 Main St. Erskine’s Grain & Garden, 54 Grain Store Road Chester Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Green Up […]
TRSU board agenda for April 7
The Two Rivers Supervisory Union board will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday April 7, 2022 in the professional development room at Ludlow Elementary School, 45 Main St. and on Zoom. To join the meeting go to https://trsu.zoom.us/j/85756476936 Below is the board’s agenda I. Call to Order A. Roll Call II. Election […]
Andover Select Board agenda for April 11
The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday April 11, 2022 at the Andover Town Hall, 953 Weston-Andover Rd. and via Zoom. To join the meeting go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8690215007 The passcode is 146374. Below is the board’s agenda 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. […]
Sunflower cookies for Arman Heritage Deli steps up to boost Springfield club's effort to bring family of Ukrainian exchange student to Vermont
By Cynthia Prairie ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Michele Wilcox of Heritage Deli in Chester loves to bake and she also loves to find a cause she can support. Wilcox’s current cause combines the two. She’s baking hundreds of cookies to sell to help bring the family of a Ukraine exchange student to the United States. […]
Learn about the James Webb Space Telescope
Claudio Veliz, a Chester resident and member of the Southern Vermont Astronomy Group, will be at Neighborhood Connections at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19 to discuss the importance of the James Webb Space Telescope. This premiere observatory of the next decade, which launched this past Christmas, is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement […]
Drug Take-Back Day set for April 30
From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, the Windsor County Sheriff’s Office, local and state law enforcement agencies and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public another opportunity to rid their homes of potentially dangerous, expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs (including powders and patches). The Take-Back Day event is […]
Op-ed: Legislature faces challenge of housing crisis
By Sen. Alison Clarkson After many long floor sessions debating and passing bills to the other body, the legislature has pretty much completed crossover, that point in the session where all bills that have any chance of making it into law have to be passed from the House to the Senate or vice versa. It […]
GMHS theater presents ‘Middletown’ April 8 & 9 A modern take on 'Our Town'
© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Green Mountain High School theater will present Middletown, a play by noted playright Will Eno, at 7 p.m. Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9 at the high school, 716 Rt. 103 south in Chester. The play is a modern take on the classic Our Town, which director Pamela Johnson-Spurlock […]
Chester Select Board agenda for April 6
The Chester Select Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. and on Zoom. To join the meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 . Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from the March 16, 2022 Selectboard Meeting 2. Citizen Comments/Answers from Previous Meeting 3. Old Business 4. Sign […]
GM girls softball preview: ‘…enjoy the game while taking it seriously’
By Evan Chadwick © 2022 Telegraph Publishing On the heels of a 10-6 2021 season and a trip to the quarterfinals, the Green Mountain Softball team enters the 2022 campaign with a solid core of players returning, along with several newcomers who will be called upon to fill the significant holes left by the class […]
Springfield Rotary Club announces speech winners
The Springfield Rotary Club held its annual “4-Way Speech Contest” at a recent meeting. The contest is for Springfield High School students to speak about how the Rotary “4-Way Test” applies to situations in their lives. Those four principles are: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better […]
Grow sunflowers, raise funds: CTES students sell seed packets for Ukrainian relief
As a continuing effort to help the people of Ukraine during the invasion by Russia, students at Cavendish Town Elementary School have been preparing sunflower seed packets for area residents and visitors. The sunflower is the national flower of Ukraine and has historically meant peace. The sunflower is the national flower of the Ukraine and represents […]
Chester Chatter: Taking some time off
By Ruthie Douglas ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Due to a recent illness, Ruthie will be taking some time off. Please keep her in your thoughts.
Henry Homeyer: Easy-to-grow nuts and berries
By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Every year you probably plant tomatoes. Wouldn’t it be great if they would come back every year without the bother of preparing the soil, starting seedlings in April and setting them out? Well that’s what nut and fruit trees and berry bushes do: once planted (and mature), […]
As Cavendish votes, Gross celebrates a hard won defeat
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC With contested races for town four offices approximately ten percent of Cavendish voters either showed up or cast absentee ballots in the delayed Town Meeting election on Tuesday. One hundred eleven votes were cast with 15 of those being absentee ballots received by noon. George Timko garnered […]
Andover Select Board replaces another member, talks short-term rentals again
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Just as things seemed about to settle down on the Andover Select Board, on Monday night another resignation put a fourth new member on the panel, leaving chairman Chris Plumb as the only one with substantial experience in town government. As the meeting got under way at […]
College News
Jenner Burnham Haseltine of Grafton has graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Denver in Colorado with a bachelor of arts in Journalism, a minor in Leadership and a minor in Film Studies Production. Haseltine plans to hike the Appalachian Trail beginning in Georgia on April 5 and completing by summiting Mount Katahdin in […]
GM boys baseball preview: ‘We want the ‘ship’
By Evan Chadwick ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC CHESTER Baseball is about fundamentals, an exercise in perfecting the minor details in an effort to maximize your overall efficiency. When asked about what the Green Mountain baseball team’s goals were for the year, senior Chase Swisher was as efficient as it gets. “We want the ‘ship,” said […]
To the editor: GM Class of ’72 seeks feedback for 50th anniversary reunion
Alumni Day June 11, 2022 is fast approaching and several members of the Green Mountain Union High School Class of 1972 are trying to determine if there is any interest in holding a reunion for our 50th anniversary year. NO LARGE FLOATING BUILDING THIS YEAR!! WE ARE PAST THAT POINT. HOWEVER, WE MAY WALK OR RIDE […]
