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Grafton Select Board agenda for Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. in Grafton. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Jan. 5, 2017 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report 6. Signature for Excess Weight Permit 7. Planning Commission […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Jan. 18, 2017
The Chester Select Board will meet as the Chester Water & Sewer Commission at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 to set the water rates. Following that, the Select Board will meeting. Both meetings will be held at Chester Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is the Select Board agenda. 1. Approval of Minutes […]
ANALYSIS: Inconsistency hangs over Chester appointments process
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Several potential members of two Chester town planning and zoning panels have been waiting for months for the Select Board to make appointments and, at its Wednesday, Jan. 18 meeting, the board will be discussing how it will approach the task deciding who will serve. The methods […]
Milk truck-minivan crash tells cautionary tale
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC At about 1:45 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, a milk truck carrying 39,000 pounds of milk and a minivan driven by an area resident crashed on Green Mountain Turnpike. The truck was on its way to the nearby Rohman-Wei farm to pick up milk. Called to the […]
Chester board approves budget, considers Act 250 appeal
By Shawn Cunningham © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC After a relatively uneventful budgeting season, the Chester Select Board approved the 2017 financial plan and voted to send an article to town meeting to raise $2.9 million in taxes, but not before one resident questioned the large surpluses from 2016 and expressed concern that several new […]
Same day voter registration now in effect in Vermont
Secretary of State Jim Condos has announced that eligible Vermont voters are now able to register to vote on any day up to and including Election Day. As of Jan. 1, 2017, Act No. 44 (S. 29) officially went into effect, and will be implemented immediately for all local and state elections going forward, including […]
Londonderry Select Board agenda for Jan. 12, 2017
The Londonderry Select Board will hold a meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12 at the Twitchell Building, 100 Old School St., South Londonderry. This meeting is rescheduled from the board’s regular meeting of Jan. 3 that was canceled due to snow. The agenda is below. 1. Call meeting to order 2. Additions or deletions […]
Texas fugitive arrested in Andover
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police and Chester Police on Friday assisted the U.S. Marshals Service in the arrest of James A. Jackson at a home on East Hill Road in Andover. According to media reports in Texas, on Aug. 10, 2016, Jackson was indicted by the Sabine County Grand Jury on […]
Andover Select Board meeting for Monday, Jan. 9, 2017
The Select Board for the Town of Andover will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at town offices at 953 Weston-Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes: Act on minutes from Dec. 12 meeting. 4. Review and Act […]
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 […]
Chester Police Log, Aug. 24 through Dec. 19, 2016
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Chester Telegraph Police Log is a sampling of incidents directly from Chester Police reports. In general, we do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Wednesday, Aug. 24, 6:29 a.m. A woman on Potash Brook Road was on her deck when she […]
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 […]
Conn. man accused of assaulting Mass. trooper arrested after chase with VSP
©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC A high speed pursuit and a run through the woods just south of Springfield on I-91 ended in the arrest of a Hartford, Conn., man accused of assaulting a Massachusetts state trooper late last night. At about 11:37 p.m. on Tuesday, Vermont State Police were alerted that Massachusetts State Police had […]
Magic Mountain named ‘Best in Snow’ by Liftopia
© 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Liftopia, a ski and snowboard ticketing portal, has named Magic Mountain in Londonderry No. 1 among its Top 10 Best in Snow winners for 2016-17, according to a press release issued last week. Liftopia takes reviews from thousands of skiers who use its services to see which resorts are best […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Jan. 4, 2017
The Chester Water/Sewer Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4 to set the water/sewer budgets. Following that, the group will meet as the Chester Select Board. The meetings will be held at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is the Select Board agenda. 1. Approval of Minutes from the Dec. 21, 2016 […]
Grafton Select Board agenda for Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017
The Grafton Select Board is meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Dec. 19, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report 6. Footbridge Repairs 7. Annual Personnel Review Dates 8. Monthly Budget […]
Snows on their way to you . . .
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Our region can expect 8 to 12 inches of snow beginning around 9 a.m. Thursday and continuing through Friday morning, with the most intense snowfall during the night on Thursday, including calls for heavy snow. The Chester Telegraph talked with the National Weather Service in Burlington Wednesday morning to ask […]
State: Chester must reappraise, future ed tax hikes likely
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Perhaps one of the driest items on the Chester Select Board agenda last Wednesday could have the greatest impact in the future, while the town officer who understands the system it is a part of will be leaving before the work will begin. Lister Wanda Purdy told […]
Chester, Bellows Falls libraries host Bill of Rights exhibit
The Whiting Library, 117 Main St. in Chester, and the Rockingham Free Public Library, 65 Westminster St. in Bellows Falls, will be hosting a new pop-up exhibition from the National Archives The Bill of Rights and You, commemorating the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the landmark document. The exhibit spotlights one of the most […]
Grinch strikes Pomfret, VSP seeks help replacing toys
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Yesterday morning Vermont State Police responded to a break-in at the the Teago General Store in Pomfret. Between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, someone broke in through the front window and stole items from the store including 25 to 30 unwrapped toys from the Toys for Tots bin. The burglar […]
