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Andover board sends $1.066M budget to voters
By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC As expected, the Andover Select Board on Monday night signed off on the town’s first $1.066 million spending plan with nary a complaint or dissent. Referring to the 2023-24 budget proposal, board member Robin Trask said, “There’s nothing frivolous here. It’s all about the trucks and the gas […]
LWV speaker series on Impact of Climate Change on Vermont continues Feb. 8
The League of Women Voters of Vermont, in partnership with Kellogg-Hubbard Library, presents the fourth installment of its five-part 2022-2023 lecture series on The Impact of Climate Change on Vermont at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8. This presentation will be a current legislative initiatives update and will provide a preview of relevant state legislation […]
Derry house project raises fund to cover panel system
Cynthia Gubb, chair of the Mountain Towns Housing Project Fundraising Committee, says that the Bob Perry Lane project has raised sufficient funds to order the house panel system from LaValley’s in Ludlow. Gubb called it “perfect timing for the project. Placing the order now will ensure that the panel system will be constructed over the […]
GMUSD board agrees to ‘retire’ Chieftain name 'Indian head' image was dropped two years ago
By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a move that was a surprise to at least one board member, the Green Mountain Unified School District board voted tonight, Thursday, Jan. 19, to discontinue the use of the Chieftain name. The district had voted to stop using the image of a Native American in […]
Former Flood Brook teacher offered principalship at CAES
By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Board of Directors of the Green Mountain Unified School District, during a special meeting on Wednesday night, voted to offer Joanne Blane, an instructional coach for the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union and former teacher at Flood Brook School in Londonderry, a one-year contract as principal of Chester-Andover Elementary […]
Chester-Andover Family Center plans expansion New storage- and sorting-room planned
By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The aftereffects of a lightning strike several years ago at the Chester-Andover Family Center has sparked a plan for expanding the building, located at 908 VT-103 in Chester, to accommodate more storage, sorting space for donations and added comfort for the all-volunteer staff. Nena Nanfeldt, a board member […]
Cavendish board talks energy, reappraisals and police coverage
By Cara Philbin ©2023 Telegraph Publishing After considerable discussion, the Cavendish Select Board, on Monday, Jan. 9, voted to direct the town’s Planning Commission to begin the process of adopting the enhanced energy chapter for the Town Plan. Commission chair Etienne Ting had told the board that if it wanted that outcome it should tell […]
AARP addresses frauds, scams and con artists on Jan. 19
From draining a victim’s bank account to opening new lines of credit, swindlers have several methods of using your personal information to steal from you. Join AARP Vermont and Elliott Greenblott, state volunteer coordinator for the AARP Fraud Watch Network, at Neighborhood Connections, 5700 VT Route 11, Londonderry, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19 […]
Andover Select Board agenda for Jan. 23
The Select Board for the Town of Andover will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 23 at the Andover Town Office, 953 Andover Road, and via Zoom. To access via Zoom, please click here. Meeting ID: 869 021 5007 Passcode: 146374. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. […]
Chester Cannabis Commission to report at Jan. 18 Select Board meeting
© 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Wednesday, Jan. 18, the Chester Select Board meeting will include the first annual report from the Chester Local Cannabis Commission. The public is invited to hear about the state of the legal cannabis industry in Vermont and specifically Chester as well as meet the local commission members. The commission, […]
Chester Select Board/Water and Sewer Commission agendas for Jan. 18
The Chester Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023. After that meeting, its members will convene as the Commissioners of Water and Sewer. The meetings will be held at Town Hall, 556 Elm Street and via Zoom. To join the meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 Below are the […]
Chester Board dips into ‘Public Funds’ to pay for cemetery work Community garden license, STR regs, solar farm purchase inch forward
By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC With a quorum of just three members attending — including Leigh Dakin on Zoom — the Chester Select Board worked through a fairly light agenda on Jan. 4, from looking to bequeathed funds for money to offset a deficit in last year’s budget to sending a proposed […]
RUN FOR OFFICE! Open seats in Andover, Athens, Cavendish, Chester, Grafton, Londonderry, Weston & Windham
© 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont’s towns are run by community minded folks who step up and serve in local government positions – from town clerks and select board members to Library Trustees, Listers, Constables and more. This is the time of year that residents can take out a petition to get on the ballot […]
Andover Board nears accepting its first million-dollar budget Discussion of regulating short-term rentals dominates, but board opts for slower deliberations
By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC While the Andover Select Board on Monday night spent more time discussing a proposed bylaw addressing regulating the growing short-term rental industry, no action was taken on the issue — and seemingly won’t be in time for Town Meeting in March, when voters would have the earliest opportunity […]
Heel to toe: Wood carver Pinske nails a giant workboot
By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester wood carver Barre Pinske — best known for his bears of many sizes — has been doing some sole-searching to create a gigantic workboot for a shoe and clothing shop in northern Massachusetts. His transition from bear carver to Paul Bunyan cobbler began when he was contacted […]
Jackknifed tractor trailer closes slushy Grafton Road
By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC The driver of a northbound tractor trailer lost control of his truck in slushy conditions on Route 35 in Chester on Friday, Jan. 6 and jackknifed winding up pointing in the opposite direction in a ditch. The mishap closed the Grafton Road from around 11:30 a.m. until […]
Cavendish Select Board agenda for Jan. 9
The Cavendish Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday January 9th, 2023, in the meeting room at the Town Office at 37 High Street in Cavendish Below is the board’s agenda 1. Call the meeting to order 2. Approval of Minutes from December 12th, 2022 3. Adjust agenda 4. Hear […]
Green Mountain school officials, police address student threat
By Cynthia Prairie ©2023 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester Police were called to Green Mountain High School on Tuesday, Jan. 3 after school officials received word of a threat made during a social media conversation among five high-school students, apparently while they were away from the school. Chester Police Chief Tom Williams said that the school […]
Andover Select Board agenda for Jan. 9
The Select Board for the Town of Andover will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9 at Andover Town Office, 953 Andover Road, and via Zoom. To access via Zoom click here. Meeting ID: 869 021 5007 and Passcode: 146374. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. […]
Two select boards push back on their planning commissions Short-term rentals, energy chapter at issue as ARPA fund uses discussed
By Shawn Cunningham © 2023 Telegraph Publishing, LLC At their last regular meetings of 2022 the Select Boards of Andover and Cavendish took issue with the work of their towns’ Planning Commission and, in one instance, broached the idea of removing members to get its way. On Dec. 27 in Andover, the board took up […]
