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UPDATE:Traffic notice for Route 9
UPDATE NOV. 13, 10:00 a.m. VT Route 9 in both directions will continue to be closed between MacArthur Rd and Hamilton Rd until at least 5pm this evening. Passenger vehicles are being rerouted via Sunset Lake Rd on the Brattleboro side and North Pond Rd on the Marlboro side. No tractor trailers are being allowed […]
Businesses urge Chester to take over info booth/restroom as ‘commitment to economic growth’
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC With the opening of the budgeting season, the age old question of what is necessary and what is not took center stage for much of the Wednesday, Nov. 4 Chester Select Board meeting that included weighing items on the proposed new capital bond plan, town-wide master planning […]
Health, environmental concerns aired at Grafton wind meeting
By Cynthia Prairie ©2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a wide-ranging meeting, Grafton residents gathered Monday to discuss everything from possible health effects of wind turbines on surrounding residents to suggested economic benefits of cutting taxes with yearly payments from wind companies. But what much of the discussion boiled down to is a Vermont town’s inability […]
Chester Police Log for July 25 – Oct. 30, 2015
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC 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. Saturday, July 25, 11:32 a.m. A complainant told police that a green Chevy pick up truck was parked by […]
Andover man victim of phone fraud, police seek public assistance
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Vermont State Police report that an Andover man contacted them on Nov. 7 to say that he was the victim of a “financial phone scam.” The man said that he had been called by a Jamaican man who identified himself as Ceon McKenzie to say that he had won $10.5 […]
Road upgrades in Chester continue with Route 11 paving
Pike Industries, which has been upgrading the roads in Chester since the end of July, announced Friday that it has paved VT 103, Depot Street and the Green including the parking area along VT 11 this week. “Today and tomorrow (Saturday) Pike will be paving VT 11 and plans to finish VT 11 and intersecting […]
Police ask for help in Andover theft today
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing , LLC Vermont State Police at the Rockingham Barracks are investigating a theft that took place today – Thursday Nov. 5 – in Andover. Some time during the day someone stole power tools from a job site on East Hill Road. Police are requesting help from anyone who might have seen […]
Car gas leak is first time for new Chester FD turnout gear
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Moments before The Telegraph arrived at the Chester fire station to photograph firefighters in new turnout gear donated by a second homeowner to honor the service of former Fire Chief Harry Goodell, the trucks went rolling out, lights flashing on their way to a call. According to […]
Firefighters in Londonderry, Chester throw open doors to trick-or-treaters
For the second year, South Londonderry’s Champion Fire Company teamed up with the nearby First Baptist Church to put on an all-encompassing Halloween gala for kids and adults alike. The church sponsored the trunk-or-treat, getting more than 20 cars to line Thompsonburg Road between the firehouse and Route 100, an area that the Fire Department […]
Londonderry board OKs proposal to hire State Police, delays town vote til March
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 – Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Select Board last night unanimously approved the recommendations of its Ad Hoc Policing Committee to contract with Vermont State Police for patrols. But decided to wait until Town Meeting in March 2016 to put the question before voters. But it was one audience member’s […]
MacLaomainn’s scares up a bundle for Food Bank, Food Shelf
MacLaomainn’s Scottish Pub raised $1,510 for the Vermont Food Bank and three boxes of food for the Food Shelf at Chester-Andover Family Center in its two-day Halloween Haunted House event held last Friday and Saturday. Admission was $1 for children 10 and under, $5 for others or cans of food. In an interview on Saturday […]
UPDATED: Newfane teen missing, police ask for assistance
UPDATED: Nov. 3, 10 a.m. State police have announced that Donavan Hamilton has been found safe. Police would like to thank the public for their tips which were instrumental in finding the youth. © 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police are asking for help in locating a teenager missing from his Newfane home. […]
Grafton Select Board meeting for Monday, Nov. 2, 2015
The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. Public Comment Adopt Agenda Minutes: Oct. 19, 2015 Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll Highway Report Work Schedule Other Highway Issues: Buy-Out Demo Bids (55 Kidder Hill Road) Tree Removal Update Wind Question […]
Chester water commissioners, Special Select Board meetings
The Chester Water Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. Following that meeting, the Chester Select Board will meet. Below are both agendas. Water Commissioners 1. Set Water Rate 2. Citizen Comments 3. Adjourn Chester Select Board 1. Approve Minutes from the Oct. 21, 2015 Select Board […]
Minor injuries in mini-van dump truck collision
©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC No one was seriously injured in the mini-van-dump truck collision on Route 103 this morning. According to police, at 8 a.m. Thursday, a mini-van traveling north toward Chester crossed the center line and collided head-on with the southbound dump truck, owned by the Town of Chester, in front of the Chester-Andover Family […]
Truck-minivan accident shuts Route 103 from Rockingham to Chester
©2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Vermont State Police in Rockingham are reporting that Route 103 is temporarily shut down to through traffic from the Vermont Agency of Transportation garage at 991 Rockingham Road in Rockingham to the intersection of Route 103 and Route 11 in Chester due to a motor vehicle collision on Route 103 […]
I-91 Closure this morning
© 2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC UPDATE 10/29 10:20 a.m. The Vermont State Police are reporting that I-91 south between the Rockingham and Springfield exits has been reopened to one lane. UPDATE 10/29 6:38 a.m. I-91 Southbound between exits 6 and 7 (Rockingham and Springfield exits) which was closed due to a rock slide, has now […]
Haunted house at MacLaommain’s Pub to benefit Food Shelf
MacLaommain’s Scottish Pub will be holding a haunted house in its Great Hall from 7 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31 to benefit the Chester-Andover Food Shelf and the Vermont Foodbank. On Saturday, it will host a storytelling and a “friendlier” haunted house for younger children from 1 to 3 […]
As break-ins spike, Londonderry panel to finalize policing proposal
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 — Telegraph Publishing LLC With just a few days left in October, Vermont State Police incident reports show there have been at least 20 instances of burglary, breaking and entering, and other types of larceny in Londonderry, Peru, Weston and Andover since the beginning of the month — and five […]
Bewitching weekend in Chester for kids and adults alike
©2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC It was a day of feasting and an evening of frights for more than 400 folks who descended upon Chester-Andover Elementary School last Saturday to take part in the pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving meal and the annual Trunk or Treat Halloween festivities. According to Chris Meyer, more than 400 meals were served up […]
