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Holiday events throughout the region Tree sales & lightings, visit with Santa, concerts, crafts & more
By Stacia Spaulding ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The holiday season has arrived. Are you in need of a Christmas tree or some hand-crafted gifts? Do the kids want to meet Santa? How about a relaxing evening filled with holiday music? The Telegraph has compiled a list of holiday events in the region. Our Calendar of […]
AOE seeking applicants, public input for Secretary of Education post
The Vermont State Board of Education is seeking applications for the position of Secretary of Education, with a application deadline of Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Part of the board’s hiring process will include a public hearing on Oct. 2. The secretary is responsible for providing leadership to over 150 employees at the Agency of Education, […]
Opinion: Vermont officially perpetuates its whiteness
By Phayvanh Luekhamhan I keep coming back to the question I frequently hear asked: “Why is Vermont so white?” It’s often accompanied by head scratching or a shoulder shrug, as if the phenomenon of our whiteness is inherent as part of our DNA, a natural law, and not something that can be reasonably explained. Vermont […]
THE IMPACT: Homes, businesses flooded, roads washed out
Gene Palma of Weston shot this video of the Weston Green. The West River once again jumped its banks in a torrent, flooding the historic Playhouse, apparently higher than it was during Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011. Homes and their residents along the river and the Town Office Building are also being impacted. […]
Op-ed: Senate housing bill targets rehabs, affordable new builds, accessory dwellings
By Sen. Alison Clarkson The Vermont legislature is now deep into the work of our 2023 session. To date, 230 bills have been introduced, committees are taking testimony on various issues, and the priorities we identified before session began are beginning to take shape in legislation. The discussion about the Senate’s 107-page child care bill, […]
College News
Willem Bargfrede of Chester, the son of Michele and Dave Bargfrede, was named to the fall 2022 Dean’s List of Champlain College, located in Burlington. To make the college’s Dean’s List, a student must earn a 3.5 grade point average or higher for the semester. Madison Tennis of Springfield, an Elementary Education and Youth Development […]
Holiday events throughout the region Tree sales and lightings, musical events, craft fairs, community dinner
By Stacia Spaulding ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The holiday season is upon us. Do you need a Christmas tree or are you wondering where to find Santa? Maybe a night of relaxation and fun is on your list. The Telegraph has compiled a list of holiday events in the region. Our Calendar of Events contains […]
Cavendish principal finalist forum March 1; special GMUSD board meeting March 2
© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Cavendish Town Elementary School Principal Interview Committee will be holding a finalists forum from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. The forum will be both in person (at CTES, 573 Main St. in Proctorsville) and on Zoom. The Two Rivers Supervisory Union will be recording the forum for […]
Community invited to 1st Main St., Master Plan presentation for Londonderry’s North Village
The first community presentation of Londonderry’s Main Street Study and Master Plan for Londonderry’s North Village Center will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7 at Neighborhood Connections located at the Mountain Marketplace in Londonderry. The meeting will be hosted by Stevens & Associates of Brattleboro, the firm selected to undertake […]
Here’s the list: Pop-up clinics continue in Vermont Two clinics set for Londonderry's Mountain Market Place
Gov. Phil Scott announced a series of new pop-up walk-in vaccination clinics available across Vermont beginning this week. While most are in the northern region, two will be held at the Mountain Market Place in Londonderry. One is today, the other is Saturday. Vermont leads the nation in Covid-19 vaccination rates, with 83.2 percent […]
Heritage Deli hosts Heritage Cares music event to benefit Chester-Andover Family Center
From noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, June 26, the Heritage Deli & Bakery in collaboration with Chester-Andover Family Center, will kick off Heritage Cares Outdoor Music Series featuring Lucky Soul, a high energy, seven-piece horn band playing classical soul, funk and R&B music. The event will take place on the grounds of the Heritage […]
Hospitality workers vaxx clinic in Ludlow; Heritage Deli event; Grace Cottage bike fund-raiser
June 9 vaxx clinic set in for Ludlow A Vaccination Clinic for Okemo Valley hospitality employees is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday June 9 in the parking lot of the Okemo Marketplace Plaza, 57 Pond St. in Ludlow. No appointment is needed, as this is a walk-in clinic. The vaccine is […]
Weston board focuses on Town Meeting plans, possible 9% education tax hike
By Cherise Madigan 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC Town Meeting was the focus of the Weston Select Board’s Dec. 8 meeting, echoing similar discussions this week in Chester and Londonderry as 2021 looms large. Typically, the town hosts its annual meeting at the Weston Playhouse — a plan that Board Chair Denis Benson suggests continuing with […]
News Analysis: Bottom falls out of state education fund, massive tax increases loom
By Shawn Cunningham © 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC School district boards across the state will have some urgent thinking to do as the depth of the education funding crisis they face begins to be expressed in dollars of shortfall and cents in tax increases in the near future. At its meeting on April 16, members […]
FAQ: Coronavirus disease 2019
Reprinted with permission of Howard B. Owens of the Batavian in New York. What is Covid-19? Covid-19 is a disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Why is the disease called Covid-19? COVID is an acronym for “coronavirus disease.” The “19” is for the year of discovery, 2019. What is SARS-CoV-2? SARS is an acronym […]
Vermont reports three new cases of COVID-19
© 2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont Department of Health today announced three new presumptive positive cases in Vermont of the new coronavirus COVID-19. To date, there are now four presumptive positive cases and one case that has been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A DOH press release on Saturday said […]
Left in Andover: A search for an ideal home
By Susan Leader ©2020 Telegraph Publishing LLC I lusted after the mug, coveting it for my very own. Henry Little, our hired man in 1956 and ‘57, brought it back to Andover for us from one of his many sojourns south of the border.Each side was more brilliantly glazed than the other. A wave of […]
Powden resigns as TRSU superintendent effective June 30
By Shawn Cunningham © 2020 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Meg Powden, superintendent of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union, resigned her position on Monday, Jan. 13 effective June 30 — the end of the 2019/2020 school year. She will have served four years, overseeing the operations of two school districts — Green Mountain Unified and Ludlow-Mt. Holly […]
Left in Andover: Martha’s life of faith and family
By Susan Leader ©2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC Eight-year-old Martha Hennessy learned of the assassination of JFK standing in line at Perkinsville Elementary School. Fifty-seven years later, the Vermont native and grandmother of eight recalls: “That same year, 1963, we were still having duck-and-cover air raid drills because of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the perceived […]
TRSU boards apparently kept in dark about suits
By Shawn Cunningham © 2019 Telegraph Publishing LLC The overspending of a line item for legal expenses by nearly 500 percent led to the revelation by The Chester Telegraph Thursday night that the Two Rivers Supervisory Union is facing at least two lawsuits that virtually no board members of Green Mountain Unified School District nor […]
