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Londonderry residents seek answers, tell State Police of fears of arsons, burglaries
Cynthia Prairie © 2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC Emotions burbled beneath a surface of congeniality as more than 200 Londonderry residents jammed Town Hall on Middletown Road Monday night to hear from Vermont State Police and its fire investigators concerning a recent spate of burglaries and the long history of suspected arsons in the area. State Rep. […]
Chester Police Log for Feb. 21 to May 19, 2015
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, Feb. 21, 4:10 p.m. Police were sent to Green Mountain Turnpike at VT Route 11 east for a one-car accident. Upon arrival the […]
Chester alumni celebrate reuniting with a holiday-themed parade
By Leah M. Cunningham ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC T he unsettled weather of the morning cleared up just in time for Chester’s annual Alumni Day parade, which kicked off at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 6. This year’s theme was Holidays, and several returning classes went all out with their floats, including an Earth Day float, one […]
Wind developers invite skeptical Graftonites to info session; speed study on Route 121 OK’d
By Gloria Dufield ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC The Monday, June 1 Grafton Select Board meeting was well attended with many community members taking part in the continuing discussions on the Grafton-Windham wind project, a proposed speed limit change on Route 121 and the minimum bid on the town garage. Melissa Belcher, of Meadowsend Timberlands Ltd., a […]
Sun shines bright on Chester Memorial Day Parade
By Leah M. Cunningham ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC Under warm and sunny skies, residents of Chester gathered in and around the Green on Saturday, May 30 for the annual Memorial Day Parade. Green Mountain Union High/Middle and Chester-Andover Elementary bands marched by as the CAES flag squad twirled their red and white banners to the glee […]
Jiffy Mart developer sees new store as improvement to area’s character
By Shawn Cunningham ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC Pointing to a “very old service station, a very old metal diner, an abandoned pizza parlor that’s overgrown, a dollar store site and a rental house that’s not in very good shape,” Matt Wamsganz, the point man overseeing constructing a 5,000-square-foot Jiffy Mart for Champlain Oil, told the Chester […]
Chester Development Review Board meeting for Monday, June 8, 2015
The Chester Development Review Board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, June 8 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. following at 5:15 p.m. site visit at 218 Gunderson Road/VT Rte 11 West. Below is its agenda. Reconvened Conditional Use request by Payne & Elise Junker. Reconvened Flood Hazard Review and Conditional Use Review with Champlain […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Wednesday, June 3, 2015
The Chester Select Board will hold its meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3 at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Below is its agenda. Approve minutes from May 21, 2015 Select Board Meeting, May 27, 2015 Special Select Board Meeting and May 28, 2015 Special Select Board Meeting Citizen Comments Old Business […]
Chester police respond to assault report, find nothing
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Chester Police responded to a report of an assault in progress in the Depot Street area last night around 10 p.m. According to Chief Richard Cloud, speaking with the Telegraph this morning, the report was received by dispatchers who remained on the line with the caller. Treating […]
Chester Select Board special meeting for May 28, 2015
The Chester Select Board has canceled the special meeting that was to have been held at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 27 and rescheduled it for 6 p.m. tonight, Thursday, May 28. The meeting is to sign the warning for a vote to ratify the water project bond vote of May 19, 2015. The ratification vote […]
Lawrence Hill Road in Weston closed Thursday for bridge work
The Weston Select Board is announcing that on from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 28, the bridge over the West River on Lawrence Hill Road (right by Town Hall) will be closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles. Any residents who must cross the bridge to get to their homes will have to […]
VTel responds to Big Pole controversy in Chester; Andover-Chester MOUs still in play
By Cynthia Prairie ©2015 – Telegraph Publishing LLC Following two executive sessions to discuss legal issues with town attorney Jim Carroll, the Chester Select Board reconvened its public session after almost a 90 minutes on Thursday, May 21. After the first executive session, the board authorized Town Manager David Pisha to sign an amendment to […]
Chester Development Review Board meeting for Monday, June 1, 2015
The Chester Development Review Board will next meet at 6 p.m. Monday, June 1 following a 5:15 p.m. site visit to Artisans Marketplace, 7 Pineview Drive at VT Rt. 103 South. The DRB meeting will be held at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. in Chester. Below is its agenda. Review minutes from last meeting. Conditional […]
Reconstruction begins on 300-foot wall in Weston
By Mallory Hopkins © 2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC Construction has begun on a 300-footlong replacement wall on Lawrence Hill Road in Weston. The original wall has stood below the Community Church since the 1800s, when it was built using rocks found in fields and rivers. But the wall has become unstable, with stones falling into the […]
Downtown and Village Center tax credits available
One of the primary benefits that comes from a municipality applying with the State of Vermont to designate an area as a Downtown or as a Village Center is the Downtown and Village Center tax credit program. The tax credit program was designed to support revitalization in community centers across the state. In 2015, $2,200,000 […]
Grafton ponders speed limit change on Route 121; unhappy with notifications from wind developer
By Gloria Dufield © 2015 Telegraph Publishing Although the weather was sunny and mild, a dozen residents and all five members of the Grafton Select Board were in attendance at the Monday, May 18 meeting, where discussion continued on topics from past sessions including a proposed wind project and the sale of the old town […]
Londonderry to host community meeting on suspicious fires
In response to public concerns regarding suspicious fires in and around South Londonderry, state Rep. Oliver Olsen of Londonderry has scheduled a community meeting at the Londonderry Town Hall in South Londonderry, at 7 p.m. Monday, June 8. Capt. J.P. Sinclair, head of the State Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Det. Lt. Daniel Trudeau, head of […]
Chester Special Select Board meeting for May 27, 2015
The Chester Select Board has scheduled a special meeting for 8 a.m., Wednesday, May 27 to sign the warning for a vote to ratify the water project bond vote of May 19, 2015. The ratification vote is a result of the Town of Chester’s failure to publish the official warning of the May 19 vote […]
Chester Police Log for March 11 through April 26, 2015
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 11, 9:30 p.m. A Reservoir Road resident reported that his mailbox had been shot with a gun. The responding officer found no […]
In weak voter turnout, Chester water project passes by 26 votes
By Shawn Cunningham © 2015 Telegraph Publishing By a margin of 112 to 86, Chester voters on Tuesday authorized the town to borrow slightly more than $4 million to upgrade the town water system, adding a second storage tank and replacing a large stretch of asbestos/concrete water main along Route 103 from the Sunoco station […]
