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Henry Homeyer: Looking back on 2024, looking ahead to 2025

Henry Homeyer: Looking back on 2024, looking ahead to 2025

By Henry Homeyer ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC I’m not a big fan of unrealistic New Year’s resolutions such as “keep my papers organized and desk tidy,” for example.  But I do like to spend some time each January reflecting on the gardens of the past year and making decisions about what I will do in […]

Heritage Family Credit Union names new senior VP of retail

Heritage Family Credit Union names new senior VP of retail

©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC Heritage Family Credit Union announces that Ryan Butler, a Rutland native who now lives in Addison County, was recently named the new senior vice president of retail. Butler comes to HFCU after spending eight years in a variety of leadership positions at KeyBank in Vermont, most recently serving as vice president, […]

Win-Win invites those concerned about climate change

Win-Win invites those concerned about climate change

If you are 60 years of age or older, a citizen of Windham or Windsor counties and are concerned about climate change, consider joining Win-Win at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 30, at the Rockingham Public Library, 65 Westminster St. in Bellows Falls. Win-Win is the Third Act Vermont regional group that meets every other […]

Lake Wise program coming to Lake Rescue

Lake Wise program coming to Lake Rescue

Lake Wise is program of the Agency of Natural Resources that provides free, non-regulatory, technical assistance to lakeshore homeowners and awards lake-friendly shoreland properties, including state parks, town beaches, private homes and businesses. While there are many benefits to living on a lake, the star attraction is a clean, healthy lake; there are so many […]

Holiday events throughout the region

Holiday events throughout the region Tree sales and lightings, musical events, shopping, craft workshops, visits with Santa and much more

By Stacia Spaulding ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Do you need a Christmas tree or some hand-crafted gifts? Are the kids excited to meet Santa? How about a relaxing evening filled with holiday music? The Telegraph has brought all the holiday events in the region together in one place. Our Calendar of Events contains additional information […]

Chester continues budgeting, hears Class 4 road complaint

Chester continues budgeting, hears Class 4 road complaint

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Every year, the Chester Snowmobile Club comes before the Chester Select Board to request the use of certain town roads to link together private properties and Class 4 roads to complete the trails used by its members and by other members of the statewide VAST trail system. […]

Chester Teen Center growing; donations sought to work on permanent space

Chester Teen Center growing; donations sought to work on permanent space

  ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Since its inception last March, with a focus group of six students from Green Mountain Union High School, the Chester Teen Center program has grown to serve more than 50 local students in grades 6 and up and meeting in the community room of the Congregational Church at 469 Main […]

GM District Board agenda for Nov. 21

GM District Board agenda for Nov. 21

The Board of Directors of the Green Mountain Unified School District will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 21 in the Green Mountain High School Library/Media Center, 716 Route 103 South and via Zoom. To access via Zoom, click here. Below is its agenda. I. CALL TO ORDER: A. Roll call II. […]

Many voters favor mail-in ballots, early voting amid brisk turnout at the polls

Many voters favor mail-in ballots, early voting amid brisk turnout at the polls

By Cynthia Prairie and Shawn Cunningham ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Turnout was brisk on this warm and breezy Election Day, in which Americans were choosing a new president and Vermonters were deciding on their gubernatorial and State House seats. Mail-in ballots at times rivaled or surpassed in-person voting in many of our south-central Vermont towns. […]

Republicans victorious in two of three local State House seats

Republicans victorious in two of three local State House seats In Chester, incumbent Chase loses to newcomer Charlton

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Republican candidates found enough traction Tuesday to flip two local State House seats held by Democrats, while a Democratic candidate was victorious in a district that has been held by independents for a decade. Anger over higher school and property taxes — and a perceived dysfunction in […]

Two Rivers Supervisory Union board agenda for Nov. 7 - UPDATED

Two Rivers Supervisory Union board agenda for Nov. 7 – UPDATED

The Two Rivers Supervisory Union board will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Thursday Nov. 7 at Cavendish Town Elementary School, 573 Main St. in Proctorsville and via Zoom. To join the meeting, go to https://trsu.zoom.us/j/82752233377 Below is the board’s agenda. I. Call to Order A. Roll Call II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: III. […]

Shrouded in mystery, Weston's 'Woman in Black' twists time and reality

Shrouded in mystery, Weston’s ‘Woman in Black’ twists time and reality

By Cara Philbin ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Theater Company’s final theatrical offering of the season, The Woman in Black, has all the trappings of an old fashioned ghost story to get you in the mood for a spine-tingling Halloween. Set on the melancholy shores of Victorian England, a settling of matters compels a […]

To the editor: Upcoming election is important to our future

To the editor: Upcoming election is important to our future

To the residents of Athens, Chester, Grafton and Windham, This election for our president and vice president may be the most important vote that we as citizens of the United States have had in our lifetimes. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz represent a future rooted in democracy, in civil and human rights, in aspiring toward […]

New teen center in Chester seeks to raise $10,000 for building renovations

New teen center in Chester seeks to raise $10,000 for building renovations

The Black River Area Community Coalition is seeking to raise $10,000 by October to renovate the accessory building at 469 Main St. in Chester to create a more permanent gathering space for local youth. Since March, BRACC has been piloting a weekly teen center program with a group of more than a dozen middle and high […]

Chester native's animated short tells of Romaine Tenney's 'Love of the Land'

Chester native’s animated short tells of Romaine Tenney’s ‘Love of the Land’ Film to be presented by Van Alstyne at Springfield Cinema

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Sixty years ago, just before 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1964, Weathersfield volunteer firefighters were called out to the Tenney farm, where a multi-building blaze glowed brightly in the late night summer sky. Romaine Tenney, a 64-year-old farmer whose lifelong home was to be taken by the […]

Experience sanctuary life, a unique community event on Sept. 7

Experience sanctuary life, a unique community event on Sept. 7

Everyone is invited to VINE Sanctuary, 201 Massey Road in Springfield, between noon and 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7 for a free event that offers a unique opportunity to experience life at the sanctuary firsthand, connect with animal residents and become an active participant in their community. The afternoon will begin with a volunteer […]

Chester Townscape taking orders for spring bulbs

Chester Townscape taking orders for spring bulbs Annual sale to also take place at Festival on the Green

Chester Townscape volunteers will be selling spring-flowering daffodil, tulip and allium bulbs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22 at Chester’s Fall Festival on The Green. The group will be set up on the west end of the Green All bulbs […]

Guide to the 2024 Chester Festival on the Green

Guide to the 2024 Chester Festival on the Green More music, fascinating performers throughout downtown

© 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Festival on the Green is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It’s a weekend filled with music, great arts and crafts, good food and friends set in the charming Vermont town of Chester. Editor’s Note: Please return often to check for updates to music,  events and vendors. The […]

Plenty of bear sightings, but not necessarily more bears in our southern Vermont towns

Plenty of bear sightings, but not necessarily more bears in our southern Vermont towns

By Lorien Strange ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Everyone seems to have a bear story these days. If you haven’t seen one — or four  — this season, just check your social media feed to find that these lumbering animals are local internet sensations. So how big is the Vermont bear population now and are we […]

Chase filed complaint against Lt. Gov. Zuckerman

Chase filed complaint against Lt. Gov. Zuckerman Zuckerman’s offers of menstrual products to lawmakers prompted reprimand from House speaker

By Sarah Mearhoff ©2024 VTDigger In early 2023, House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, issued verbal and written warnings to Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman after state legislators reported feeling uncomfortable when Zuckerman offered them access to a supply of menstrual products located in a drawer in his chief of staff’s office. Krowinski and other top Statehouse […]