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Chester board adds full-time ambulance staffer, seeks clarity in capital bond plan
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board finalized the municipal budget for 2016 at its Jan. 6 meeting, adding a full-time ambulance position and approving the capital bond plan but sending Town Manager David Pisha back to the drawing board to come up with a clearer way of explaining the […]
Grafton Select Board rejects initial Planning Commission changes, asks for full Town Plan revision
By Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Eric Stevens, the head of Grafton’s Planning Commission, says he was at first angered, then baffled by the Select Board’s recent rejection of the changes his group had made to the Town Plan, which is actually the 2008 Town Plan that was re-adopted in 2013. Vermont requires towns […]
Chester board questions Fire Department expenditures
By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC With nearly all the income and expense for 2015 accounted for, the Chester Select Board used a short special meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 30, to move another step closer to finalizing a 2016 budget proposal to present to voters at Town Meeting in March. Town Manager David […]
4 homes along Newfane road hit by burglars early on Christmas Eve
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police in Brattleboro are reporting that around 4 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, four homes on Stratton Hill Road in Newfane were burglarized. All of the burglaries involved force entry and multiple firearms and “many assorted items” were taken. At one of the houses, a camera […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Jan. 6, 2016
The Chester Select Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 6 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from Dec. 30, 2015 Select Board Meeting 2. Citizen Comments 3. Old Business 4. Sign Tax Anticipation Note 5. Sign Resolution for Master Plan Grant Application 6. TAC Update […]
Current bus service seeks input from riders
© 2016 Chester Telegraph LLC Southeast Vermont Transit (aka The Current) has just started a project to evaluate the bus service it runs in the Springfield/Ludlow/Bellows Falls/Chester area. The majority of this project focuses on a survey of existing and potential bus riders in the area. It is available online through Jan 24. The transit […]
Deadlines approach for Chester election petitions
© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The following elective offices in Chester are open for 2016. An asterisk denotes a paid position. Petition forms to get on the ballot for these offices are available at the Town Clerk’s Office, 556 Elm St., between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Petitions for elective office must […]
Grafton Select Board meeting for Monday, Jan. 4
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. in Grafton. Below is its agenda. Public Comment Adopt Agenda Minutes: Dec. 9 & 21 (3 sets), 2015 Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll Highway Report Work Schedule Other Highway Issues: Delinquent Tax Update (Jan Atwood) […]
A LOOK BACK: 2015 saw fires, rise in crime; but business, local controversies also grabbed headlines
Fires: All tragic, some suspicious © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Early in the morning of March 6, 11 fire departments responded to a four alarm fire at the Monier home on Elm Street in Chester. While working one fire in nine below zero temperatures, firefighters were called to a house across the street to put […]
Three confirmed dead in Killington crash, Route 4 closed ‘late into evening’
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are asking drivers to avoid U.S. Route 4 between Pico Peak and the intersection of Routes 4 and 100 as they investigate a fatal crash that occurred this afternoon. According to police, the accident involved a tractor-trailer and a sport utility vehicle and that, of the seven […]
Chester Select Board meeting for Dec. 30, 2015
The Chester Select Board will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 30 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Below is its agenda. Approve Minutes from Dec. 16, 2015 Select Board meeting Citizen Comments 2016 Draft General Fund Budget New Business/Next Agenda Adjourn
Serious accident closes Route 4 near Killington
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are reporting that Route 4 in Killington (east of Sherburne Pass, west of Killington Access Road) is closed due to a serious motor vehicle crash involving a tractor trailer. VTrans is assisting with the road closure and is re-directing traffic. Police say that the road will be […]
Hit (house) and run in Andover
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police in Rockingham are reporting that on Saturday, Dec. 26 at about 11:45 p.m. a car traveling on Route 11 left the road and collided with a house in Simonsville. By the time troopers arrived on the scene, the vehicle had been removed. According to police, the […]
Ludlow armed robbery suspect surrenders to police
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police are reporting that Matthew Martin, a suspect in the Dec. 21 armed robbery of the Heritage Credit Union in Ludlow, surrendered to state police and Weathersfield police at a Pikes Peak address in the town of Weathersfield at about 3 a.m. this morning. Police say that the […]
Police tell a real life Grinch story in Pittsford
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police press releases are often dry affairs filled with acronyms and legal speak, but a burglary last night in Pittsford got the following (completely appropriate) treatment from Trooper Kaitlyn Armstrong. DATE/TIME: December 24, 2015 LOCATION: Arch Street, Pittsford VIOLATION: Burglary ACCUSED: UNKNOWN (Grinch) VICTIM: Apx. 30 elderly residents […]
Chester board talks party to celebrate N.Y. charter; Townscape recaps volunteer work
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board continued to wrestle with funding capital expenditures by municipal bond rather than through current tax revenues and worked on the budget at its Dec. 16 meeting, but not before talking about some partying. In fact, while it did not delve into the question […]
Grafton group agrees to pick up annual insurance tab, half of pay phone fee
By Cynthia Prairie ©2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC It was a short pre-Christmas Grafton Select Board meeting that was well-attended as a number of residents who had come to two earlier meetings stayed on. Those earlier meetings included a short one held by the Capital Budget Committee seeking public input and a longer one by the […]
Police release photos from Ludlow credit union robbery
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police have released three still photographs taken from the video camera at Heritage Credit Union during yesterday’s robbery. Police believe the robber to be Matthew Martin, 31, and say that he is wanted on warrants for other robberies in Vermont and New Hampshire. According […]
Kids, adults alike light up over holiday village at Chester Town Hall
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Time is running out to see the Christmas village constructed by Ken Barrett at Chester Town Hall. Town Clerk Deb Aldrich kept her office open until 7 last night and Ken and Shirley Barrett were on hand to welcome visitors. At one point there 15 visitors crowded […]
Police ask for help with highway arsons
Vermont State Police are seeking help in finding the person who set a series of small brush fires yesterday along I-91 in the Brattleboro area. According to police, there were suspicious brush fires at the Massachusetts state line, mile marker 6.25, Exit One, Exit Two and at mile marker 12.8. A person was seen walking […]
