Author Archive for Shawn Cunningham
Weston doctor arrested on drug fraud charges
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are alleging that Dr. Melanie M. Canon, 49, of Weston prescribed opioid pain relievers to patients, then retrieved the drugs from the pharmacy, never delivered them and kept the drugs for her own use. In a press release today, Sgt. Thomas Mozzer of VSP’s Drug Diversion Unit […]
Construction springs up throughout Chester this summer
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC In addition to road closures for bridge work in Weston and culvert work in Andover with paving all around the area, Chester will be busy with construction on municipal and private jobs all summer. Work on a new Jiffy Mart and the Dollar General has begun and […]
Windham house destroyed in afternoon blaze
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC By the time firefighters reached the house at the top of Windham Springs Road Tuesday afternoon it was entirely ablaze, said Windham Fire Chief Rick Weitzel who was in command at the scene. “The walls were still standing, but the roof was gone and the garage was […]
Spate of fires — and an odd emergency call — take a toll on firefighters
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Monday morning, Chester Fire Chief Matt Wilson told a visitor that he hoped for “significant rain” to relieve the dry conditions that have contributed to a rash of brush and forest fires in recent days. In addition to working four days on two separate fires on […]
Chester to host Red Nose Day May 26; Hearse House rehab progresses
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC There are red letter days and red flag days, but having gotten the approval of the Chester Select Board to hold a walkathon on The Green at the April 20 meeting, a group of local volunteers will bring a “Red Nose Day” to town next month. Going […]
Ascutney motel on fire; at least 10 agencies respond
UPDATE: Ascutney command has reported that 15 rooms in the center of the motel have collapsed and that they are fighting the fires on the north and south ends of the building. More fire companies have been called to cover the stations of those already on the scene. © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Emergency scanner […]
UPDATE – Forest fire hits Missing Link Road
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC More than 25 pieces of firefighting equipment from 13 departments lined Missing Link Road (Route 5) in Springfield this afternoon as more than of 40 firefighters worked in the woods up the steep incline from the road. According to Springfield Fire Chief Russ Thompson, who was incident […]
3-alarm brush fire in Londonderry draws large response
UPDATE: The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation has posted today’s predicted fire danger as “High” for the state, but has noted that it may be “Very High” in southern Vermont due to higher winds. Open burning requires a permit from your town fire warden. By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Fire […]
Fire danger high today, may be higher this weekend
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The National Weather Service and several Vermont agencies are announcing that this weekend a high danger of brush and forest fires will exist. With just a few days sunny days with lower humidity and higher winds, dead grass, leaves and brush can become prime fuel for fires. These agencies are […]
Select board hears of fund-raising event for Chester kids; again questions Academy Building lease
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The agenda for last Wednesday’s Chester Select Board meeting looked mostly like routine housekeeping: grant applications to sign, a couple of liquor licenses to renew, the annual update of the local emergency plan and a review of new cemetery policies. But the meeting was anything but routine. […]
Andover Town Clerk Linda Bargfrede to retire
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Andover Town Clerk Linda Bargfrede announced on Monday night that she would be retiring from her post effective June 1. “You know I have been thinking about this for a while,” Bargfrede told the Andover Select Board. For a number of reasons, I think this is the […]
Vermont State Police Log for April: Feb. 2- March 31, 2016
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Vermont State Police incident report is a sampling of incidents directly from Vermont State Police. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Tuesday, Feb. 2, Londonderry — A caretaker reported that someone had broken into a barn in the Landgrove […]
Grafton Select Board tussles over wind project issues
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Grafton Select Board zipped through the first seven items on its Monday, April 4 agenda with unanimous votes and even some friendly banter, but got mired on the next two, which asked if a lawyer should be hired to represent the town and if the Select […]
Break-in in Windham; police ask for help
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police are reporting that on Sunday April 3, they were called to investigate a burglary at a house on Abbott Road in Windham. At this time, the only thing that seems to have been taken is a 55-inch flat screen television. The crime occurred on the night […]
Andover board accepts culvert bids, work to begin in summer
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a brief meeting Monday night, the Andover Select Board accepted the low bids of Ameden Construction of Jamaica for three culvert projects to be started in June. Consulting engineer Everett Hammond pointed to the complexity of the culvert work done last year on Lowell Lake Road […]
Dollar General, Jiffy Mart could go head-to-head on construction
By Cynthia Prairie and Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Gird yourself Chester. If all goes as stated, heavy equipment will descend on Main Street as two large construction projects – within spitting distance of each other – begin in mid-April. After an unexplained delay, the developer the Zaremba Group is expected to start […]
Bondville pizza restaurant owner faces federal drug charges
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The U.S. Attorney for Vermont announced yesterday that Marco Antonio Lam Peralta, 42, of South Londonderry was arrested Tuesday and charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin. Lam Peralta was arrested in connection with a shipment of 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of heroin seized in Miami last October. […]
Sandri floats idea of purchase, lease of town land;
historical society says Yosemite will have new owner
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The president of Sandri Cos. asked the Chester Select Board last Wednesday if it was open to selling town land so the company could add a Dunkin Donuts franchise to the convenience store and liquor outlet that it already runs at its Sunoco gas station on Main […]
Low-income heating program benefits from bank’s challenge
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Merchants Bank and the Champlain Valley Office for Economic Opportunity have announced the results of their fundraising for WARMTH, a program to help low-income Vermonters pay home heating bills. The statewide fund received a $40,000 challenge grant from Merchants Bank and went on to raise a total of $107,000. The […]
VSP unveils new website, includes cold case info
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC As part of its announcement of a website update, the Vermont State Police today unveiled a new tool for soliciting public help in working on 55 unsolved homicide and 35 missing persons cases. The “unsolved” page features Vermont maps with clickable figures, each representing a case that […]
