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Chester Select Board meeting for Sept. 21, 2016
The Chester Select Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from Sept. 7, 2016 Selectboard Meeting and Sept.7, 2016 Executive Session 2. Citizen Comments 3. Old Business 4. Windham-Windsor Housing Trust; Wendy Harrison 5. Information Booth Request; CEDC 6. […]
Grafton Select Board meeting for Sept. 19, 2016
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 19 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Sept. 6, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report: a. Report on dead trees; b. Chester Road driveway easements; c. […]
A taxing day in Chester
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Paying your annual property taxes is no fun, but collecting them is no picnic either as The Telegraph found when visiting the Chester Town Clerk’s office on Sept. 15 just two and a half hours before the deadline. Nevertheless, Town Clerk Deb Aldrich and Assistant Town Clerk Julie Hance put […]
Williams River Corridor plan meeting in Chester; 5K run for new CAES playground; Rock Library urges kids to get library cards
Public meeting set on Williams River corridor plan The Windham County Natural Resources Conservation District will hold a second public meeting on the now-completed Williams River corridor plan. At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, consultant Evan Fitzgerald will present the plan and its findings and discuss potential future projects for the river corridor. The […]
Novelist Catherine Breslin, of NYC and Lower Bartonsville, dies at 80
Journalist and author Catherine “Cate” Breslin, 80, of New York and Lower Bartonsville, Vt., died July 23, 2016 at the Springfield Rehabilitation Center of complications from brittle diabetes. Born Mary Catherine Breslin on Feb. 22, 1936 in Springfield, Mass., the second of three daughters born to Dr. James Edward Breslin and his wife Adeline Devereaux. […]
Op-ed: MTL holds right to manage its property with Stiles Brook wind project
By Jeremy Turner Managing forester Meadowsend Timberlands There has been a lot of debate around the future of a property that is owned by the company I have worked for over the past 20 years, Meadowsend Timberlands. MTL owns the 5,000-acre tract of land, a small portion of which the Stiles Brook Wind Project would […]
College News
Castleton University of Castleton welcomes the following students who have recently registered for the fall 2016 semester: Alisha Dykes of Chester; Jared Jackson of Chester; Reilly Knipes of Andover and Cassidy Yrsha of Londonderry Christine Duke of Weston has enrolled James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., for the fall semester of 2016. She is […]
To the editor: Jack Coleman was committed to lifelong learning
To the impressive account of John R. Colman’s legacy, one additional aspect of his rich life should be added: his commitment to lifelong learning programs. (Jack Coleman, force behind Chester’s Players Guild, Overture to Christmas, dies at 95, Chester Telegraph, Sept. 9). Jack taught in the I.L.E.A.D. program at Dartmouth College for some years to […]
To the editor: Upper Midwest embraces wind
We just returned from a 2,600-mile round trip on motorcycles to the Wisconsin Dells. Imagine to our (seven people in the group) surprise all the wind turbines we saw, maybe 1,000 just in Michigan and Illinois alone — we got tired trying to count them. As we arrived in Ubly, Mich., we had seen at […]
Chester Select Board meeting for Sept. 7
The Chester Select Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. Approval of Minutes from the Aug. 17, 2016 Select Board meeting and Aug. 17, 2016 Select Board executive session and Aug. 24, 2016 Special Select Board meeting and Aug. 29, 2016 executive session […]
To the editor: Black River Rugby season about to begin
Summer is winding down and fall is fast approaching, and with it comes the 2016 fall season for the Black River Rugby Club. Black River is a Division 4 Men’s Team in the New England Rugby Football Union. Again this year, Black River Rugby would like to thank Mark Verespy and The Killarney Irish Pub […]
Grafton Select Board meeting for Sept. 6, 2016
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Aug. 15, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report 6. Signature for designated voting delegate from Grafton at the annual […]
Op-ed: A Windham resident speaks out for wind
By Mary McCoy As a resident of the town of Windham, I have observed the activity related to the wind farm proposed for our town — and Grafton, which has been dominated by very vocal opposition. For my own peace of mind, I am compelled to publicly state some of the positive reasons for supporting […]
To the editor: Bock thanks supporters for primary victory
A sincere thank you to all my supporters from Andover, Baltimore, Chester and North Springfield who brought our campaign to victory at the Aug. 9 primary. I am honored to have received the Democratic nomination for state representative and look forward to the final leg of the race to Election Day this fall. Over the […]
Special Chester Select Board meeting Monday, Aug. 29
The Chester Select Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. 1. Citizen Comments 2. Executive Session for the purpose of Reviewing a Settlement with Fish & Wildlife relative to the permitting of the new water storage tank and […]
Chester water rates increase; Coach Road water pipes to be ‘looped’
By Christian Avard © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester residents and second homeowners will be seeing an increase in water rates with their next bill. Acting as the town’s Water Commissioners, the Chester Select Board approved a $2 water rate increase at its Aug. 17 meeting. Water users will be charged $46 per equivalent unit […]
Andover celebration helps fill scholarship coffers
By Kevin Kunze ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC More than 20 artists, craftspeople and bakers lined the grounds of the Andover Town Hall on Saturday to show and sell their wares under warm blue skies for the third annual Andover Day Fair. (See photo gallery below.) Music by fiddler John Specker and his daughters, Ida Mae […]
Pokemon Go — and its fans — take to the streets in s. Vermont
By Kevin Cudabac 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC While you won’t see thousands of Pokemon Go players bumping into each other in front of the Vermont Country Store in Weston or swarming the Green in Chester, there are plenty of historical landmarks, unique shops and cafes in the region to keep the most avid players interested. […]
College News
Orrin Amsden of Chester earned a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., in May 2016. Catharine Leiter of Weston will be studying abroad in Union College’s fall 2016 term. Leiter will be is traveling to Rennes, France, to study the French language and culture. She is a member of the […]
Andover Select Board meeting for Monday, Aug. 22, 2016
The Select Board for the town of Andover will hold its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22, at Town Offices, 953 Weston-Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes: 08/08/2016 Selectboard Meeting. 4. Review and Act on Financial Orders. 5. Highways / Garage: A. […]