All Entries in the "Chester" Category
Petitions due Jan. 30 for open offices in Chester
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Town of Chester will elect officers by Australian ballot on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. These are the offices that will be up for election at that time. Chester Town School District Moderator – 1 one-year term Town Moderator – 1 one-year term Town Clerk – 1 three-year term Town […]
Act 250 permit for Chester water tank restricts gravel extraction plan
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Friday, the District #2 Environmental Commission issued a permit to allow Chester to build a water tank and transmission line on 139 acres of land east of Green Mountain Union High School. But the Act 250 permit seems likely to make further development on the site […]
Chester Town Hall opened til 8 p.m. Dec. 20 for Christmas Garden visitors
The Chester Town Office will be open from 8 a.m. til 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 20, for everyone to visit the annual Christmas Garden created by Ken Barrett. Ever wonder how many ornaments are in this elaborate and detailed display? Take a guess and submit it with your name when you visit. Prizes for […]
Sign dust-up highlights ongoing permitting problems in Chester
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board heard nearly an hour of public comment at its Wednesday, Dec. 7 meeting. This included a discussion of an issue that echoed questions of procedures not followed and unilateral action taken in a recent zoning controversy, in which a building was constructed with […]
Chester Community Visioning Workshop planned for Dec. 14
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC As part of Chester’s grant-funded Village Center Master Planning initiative, there will be a Community Visioning Workshop at Town Hall, 556 Elm St., from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 14. The workshop is an opportunity for the public to give input, suggestions, comments and ideas on how to […]
Bellows Falls woman arrested in theft of mail
UPDATED INFORMATION – Dec. 5, 1:55 p.m. © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are saying that they have arrested a Bellows Falls woman for larceny in alleged thefts from mailboxes and possession of a controlled substance. On Friday Dec. 2, at about 8:20 p.m. police received a complaint of a vehicle stopping at […]
Chester prohibits dual board memberships, sometimes; reviews dept. budgets
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC After nearly a year and a half of discussing a conflict of interest policy, the Chester Select Board resolved a final sticking point last Wednesday, voting to close the door on dual memberships on the Planning Commission and Development Review Boards. But they left the key under […]
Other issues waylay special Chester board meeting
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC What was intended to be a training session on the powers and responsibilities of the Chester Select Board and town manager, conducted by town attorney Jim Carroll, turned into a tutorial on legal aspects of several recent developments in Chester including why the Select Board believes it […]
Chester Planning Commission hearing for tonight cancelled
The Chester Planning Commission’s public hearing on Unified Development Bylaw revisions scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight has been cancelled. The reason for the cancellation was insufficient legal warning. The hearing is tentatively being rescheduled for Dec. 19.
Chester limits service of Select Board members, others
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC There was more than a little interest in the conflict over wording of an ethics policy for town officials and employees at Wednesday’s Chester Select Board meeting. The idea of a conflict of interest policy has been kicking around since mid-2015, when board member Heather Chase asked […]
Chester zoning administrator’s action questioned
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Calling the situation “very disconcerting,” a Chester resident told the Select Board last Wednesday, that the town’s zoning administrator had issued a building permit for a property without a clear ‘use’ as outlined in the town’s Unified Development Bylaws. Marilyn Mahusky, who has been a vocal critic […]
Temporary bridge placed over failing Popple Dungeon culvert
By Shawn Cunningham © Telegraph Publishing LLC If you’re traveling on Popple Dungeon Road in Chester in the next couple of years, you might want to slow down just past the three-mile mark where you will find yourself driving up onto a one lane bridge sitting up on stone blocks. The town of Chester placed […]
Chester considers sex offender ordinance, stalls on board appointments
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC While Chester’s town attorney asserted that it could “enmesh” the town in a lawsuit “that you will lose,” resident Randy Miles stressed the need for an ordinance that would limit where sex offenders could live, saying he was willing to spend taxpayer dollars fighting to keep the […]
Sparse but enthusiastic group turns out for Chester planning forum
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC If Harry Truman was right and “decisions are made by those who show up,” then on Saturday, around 50 people began charting the course for Chester’s downtown for years to come. Despite efforts by town government to bring people out to express their opinions on issues facing […]
Citizen Matt: Chester Det. Wilson takes on a new beat
By Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC In just a few days, Matt Wilson will no longer be a Chester Police detective. The 15-year veteran of the force will be leaving the department in late October to take a position a little closer to home — as a matter of fact, in his home, where […]
Chester Master Plan steering committee expands to 10; other appointments on hold
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The long awaited master planning process for downtown Chester is about to begin its year-long run and at its Oct. 5 meeting, the town’s Select Board was slated to appoint its steering committee, but there was a twist. As late as Wednesday morning at the Chester Economic […]
Chester board hears about affordable housing, public trees and historic buildings
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board did a lot of listening at its Sept. 21 meeting, with presentations on affordable housing and public trees as well as monthly financial updates and more than half an hour of public comments. Wendy Harrison, director of Development and Community Relations for the […]
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 […]
Chester board considers sex offender ordinance
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Two items on the agenda for Sept. 7 meeting of the Chester Select Board brought out interested residents: a proposed ordinance to limit where sex offenders could live in Chester and a discussion of whether 19 roads that are plowed and maintained by the town are in […]
Jack Coleman, force behind Chester’s Players Guild, Overture to Christmas, dies at 95
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC To the wider world, John Royston Coleman was the accomplished economist, college president, central banker, foundation executive and author who took off for the hills of Vermont to run a country inn. But to people in Chester — where he settled to run The Inn at Long […]
