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Weston Select Board agenda for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013
The Weston Select Board meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 at the Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road, during renovations of the Weston Town Hall. Here’s its agenda. 1. Public Comment. 2. Fothergill, Segale and Valley – Management Letter signing. 3. Planning Commission: Openings: 1 Regular position and 1 Alternate position 4. […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013
The Chester Select Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23 for its bimonthly meeting. Last week’s meeting had been canceled. The meeting will be held at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Below is the Select Board’s agenda. Approve minutes from Oct. 2, 2013 Select Board meeting and executive session Citizen Comments […]
SoVera observatory up and running on private land
By Shawn Cunningham Ron Jackson was in good spirits despite the heavy cloud cover as he rolled back the roof on his “new” observatory on a hill in Gassetts. There wouldn’t be any stars visible, so he trained his Celestron “orange tube” Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a pine tree several hundred feet away and invited a […]
Chester Select Board meeting for Oct. 16 canceled
The Select Board meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. has been canceled. Regular meetings are held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month at Town Hall, 556 Elm St.
Solar contract decision still hanging; VAST gets OK for trail through town forest
The Chester Select Board last Wednesday expected a presentation from Green Lantern Capital regarding financial details of its proposed solar farm on town land on Route 103 at Trebo Road. But Luke Schullenberger, the company’s founder and managing partner, was taken ill. Instead, Mike Wigham of Integrated Solar, which would be contracted to build the […]
Chester Development Review Board meeting for Monday, Oct. 14, 2013
The Chester Development Review Board will meet at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 for a site visit at Goldthwaite Road. It will then proceed to Town Hall, 556 Elm St., for its regular 6 p.m. meeting. Below is the agenda. 5 p.m. Site visit Goldthwaite Road (see markers on left side of road heading NW […]
Police Log for May 10 through Sept. 13, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Chester Telegraph Police Log is a sampling of incidents directly from Chester Police reports. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Friday, May 10, 2:22 p.m. An officer responded to North Street where a turkey injured by a car was flopping around on the edge […]
Playhouse gets zoning board OK; Duke leaves WPTC
By Cynthia Prairie The Weston Zoning Board of Adjustment has granted the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company a conditional use permit to build a new theater complete with parking spaces, driveway and landscaping on the 5-acre Walker Farm property at the corner of Route 100 and Chester Mountain Road in Weston. ON THE COVER: Architect Jim […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013
The Chester Select Board will hold its bi-monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Below is the agenda. Approve Minutes from Sept. 18, 2013 Selectboard Meeting Citizen Comments Old Business VAST Request; Dick Jewett Health Insurance Discussion with Suzanne Swanson Solar Farm on Town Property; […]
Select Board mashup: Town solar farm now a question; supervisory union budget transparency questioned and answering a question: Who hired the consultant?
By Shawn Cunningham The Chester Select Board seems to be talking itself out of a solar farm deal that it has been working on for the past eight months. During its meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 18, board member Derek Suursoo kicked off the discussion on the proposed solar farm — slated for town land off […]
Opponents lay out arguments against Dollar General plan
This is Part II of a two-part series reporting on last week’s Dollar General appeal, today covering the testimony for opponents of the proposed Dollar General store in Chester and cross-examination. Feel free to share your views on the articles and the issues in the Comment section below the article or send us a Letter […]
Zaremba defends Dollar General plans in court
This is Part I of two parts reporting on this week’s Dollar General appeal, only covering the testimony for Dollar General and cross-examination. Please share your views in the Comment section below the article. By Cynthia Prairie NEWFANE Many punches were thrown, quite a number were landed but none seemed to be a knockout in […]
Select Board agenda for Wednesday Sept. 18, 2013
The Chester Select Board will be in its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Here is its agenda: Approve Minutes from Sept. 4, 2013 Select Board meeting and executive sessions Citizen Comments Old Business Offer to Donate Real Estate to the Town; Ms. Suojanen Beer […]
Judge hears from Dollar General proponents
Posted at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 NEWFANE The first day of testimony in the appeal of the Act 250 approval of a Dollar General for Chester wrapped up shortly before 5 p.m. after an early morning site visit and testimony from witnesses on behalf of the Zaremba Group, the developer for the 10,000-store […]
Issues over proposed bylaws returned to Planning Commission; Missing Link Bridge to be rebuilt
By Shawn Cunningham For the second meeting in a row, on Wednesday Sept. 4, the Chester Select Board went immediately into executive session. The closed door session was to talk with candidates for the positions of Lister and Planning Commission member. The board entered executive session at 7:07 and returned at 7:29 p.m.after which they […]
Police Log for March 27 through Aug. 23, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Chester Telegraph Police Log is a sampling of incidents directly from Chester Police reports. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Wednesday, March 27, 10:07 a.m. Complainant advised he saw a trailer that belonged to him at an auction house. It had been at his […]
Development Review Board for Monday, Sept. 9, 2013
The Chester Development Review Board, an independent quasi-judicial body, will meet at 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 9. at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Below is its agenda for the evening. The DRB will meet at 5:30 p.m. for a site visit at 12 Andover Road. 1) Review minutes from Aug. 26 hearing 2) […]
Select Board meeting for Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013
The Chester Select Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Below is its agenda for that evening. Approve minutes from Aug. 21, 2013 Select Board meeting and executive session Executive Session on a Personnel Matter Citizen Comments Old Business Entertainment Permits: Pizza Stone; Country Girl […]
Study author recommends adding officers to Chester Police force
By Shawn Cunningham In a presentation to the Chester Select Board on Wednesday, Aug. 21, Doug Hoyt, a former police chief of Montpelier, suggested that the Chester Police Department staff should grow by two officers, to six total. Hoyt conducted a study of the police department under the auspices of the Vermont League of Cities […]
Development Review Board agenda for Monday, Aug. 26
The Chester Development Review Board will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Here is its agenda: 1. Review minutes from the July 22 and Aug. 12 hearings 2. Reconvened Conditional Use request by Scarlet Veil LLC-Chris Meyer for 18 S. Main St. 3. Reconvened Final Plat Review […]