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Three member Andover board talks reappraisal, short term rentals

Three member Andover board talks reappraisal, short term rentals Emergency services contract on hold for new board

By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Recent meetings of the Andover Select Board have tended to be contentious, but the Feb. 14 meeting saw the now three-member board agreeing on most everything that came up. And with three members remaining after two recent resignations, there was no room for disagreement. That’s because with […]

Henry Homeyer: Winter musings on having a great garden

Henry Homeyer: Winter musings on having a great garden

By Henry Homeyer © 2022 Telegraph Publishing T his is a good time for all of us to stop and reflect on how we garden. Are we creating lovely-looking spaces, but failing to support pollinators, birds and wildlife? What about the environment? Can we do more? If so, how can we improve? Here are a […]

Weekly Covid Update: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths fall

Weekly Covid Update: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths fall

©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC As Vermont Covid-19 metrics across the board continued to improve,  Gov. Phil Scott again moved quickly off the pandemic topic during his Tuesday pandemic press conference. When asked about state-wide masking for schools and other indoor settings, Scott said that the state had extended the guidance for schools a number of […]

FBI offers $10,000 reward for 'Rt. 91 Bandit'

FBI offers $10,000 reward for ‘Rt. 91 Bandit’

 The FBI is looking for a “serial bank robber” who they say has held up 11 banks along the Interstate-91 corridor in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and are offering a $10,000 reward for information to identify and catch him. They also say that he is considered armed and dangerous. According to a […]

Op-ed: Senate panel seeks community unity, multi-member districts in remapping

Op-ed: Senate panel seeks community unity, multi-member districts in remapping

By Sen. Alison Clarkson Every 10 years the results of the national Census requires each state to review the impact of any population change on their electoral districts. The Vermont Constitution requires that our state’s population must be fairly distributed to afford “equality of representation.” Covid delayed the national Census returns and, as a result, […]

Driver injured in head-on crash that stops 103 traffic for more than two hours

Driver injured in head-on crash that stops 103 traffic for more than two hours

By Cynthia Prairie ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC A30-year-old White River Junction man was injured shortly before 9 a.m. Monday morning when his northbound 2000 Chevrolet Blazer crossed the center line on Route 103 in Cavendish, hitting a Ford van head-on that was heading south and pushing it back about 50 yards upon impact, police have said. […]

Andover Select Board agenda for Feb. 14

Andover Select Board agenda for Feb. 14

The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday Feb. 14, 2022 at the Andover Town Hall and via Zoom. To join the meeting click here. Use passcode: 146374 Below is the board’s agenda. 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes: Act […]

Weekly Covid Update: New Covid cases continue to drop; state shifts focus to recovery, prevention

Weekly Covid Update: New Covid cases continue to drop; state shifts focus to recovery, prevention

©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC With new Covid 19 cases continuing to plummet, Vermont state and health officials have begun shifting their narrative to one of recovery and long-term prevention vs. crisis management. On Tuesday during the weekly press conference, Gov. Phil Scott offered little comment on Covid-19, other than saying he was “very encouraged.” Instead, […]

Turnovers riddle GM girls in loss to Leland & Gray Rebels

Turnovers riddle GM girls in loss to Leland & Gray Rebels

By Evan Chadwick ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Turnovers: The ugliest word in basketball showed its face in Chester early and often for the Green Mountain girls basketball team in their Tuesday matchup with the Leland & Gray Rebels. In the end, despite making several runs, the Chieftains could simply not overcome their unforced errors that […]

Op-ed: Covid exacerbates, highlights inequality of working women

Op-ed: Covid exacerbates, highlights inequality of working women

By Kellie Campbell, Ed.D. Vermont Commission on Women If you have been to a restaurant lately, you have probably seen signs on the door about being short-staffed and asking for your patience. Perhaps you are a parent who received a message from your childcare provider about having to close early or shorten hours due to […]

Chester Chatter: The warm aromas of the kitchen

Chester Chatter: The warm aromas of the kitchen

By Ruthie Douglas ©2022 Telegraph Publishing Co. The world as I once knew it has long passed. Perhaps it is because I am old, what is known as “elderly.” I also have had plenty of time to reflect on my past years. And this frigid winter has made me reflect on my childhood. On dark […]

While Vermont Covid cases total 103,066, overall positivity rate declines

While Vermont Covid cases total 103,066, overall positivity rate declines

©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Although the total Covid case count for Vermont since the start of the pandemic crested the 100,000 mark this week, overall state data points to a widespread decline, especially in weekly case totals that plummeted from last week’s 10,104 down to 6,651. The overall total number of Covid cases in Vermont […]

Op-ed: Fixing the state's public pension system

Op-ed: Fixing the state’s public pension system

By Sen. Alison Clarkson When the Pension Benefits, Design, and Funding Task Force was created last year, I was relieved. Our public pension system was in crisis. If we did nothing to fix the problems, Vermont taxpayers were looking at an unfunded pension liability of $4.5 billion, with that liability growing for the teachers and […]

Chester Chatter: Left on a right-sided farm

Chester Chatter: Left on a right-sided farm

By Ruthie Douglas ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC As a housewife and a farm hand, I was getting pretty darn tired of this new job. One day Don told me he was going to show me how to drive a tractor. He offered me a Ford tractor, which he called “the easiest one on the farm […]

Andover Select Board agenda for Jan. 24

Andover Select Board agenda for Jan. 24

The Select Board for the town of Andover will hold its meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24 at Andover Town Hall, 958 Andover Road, and via Zoom. To access via Zoom click here.  Meeting ID: 869 021 5007; Passcode: 146374. Below is its agenda. 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act […]

AIAVT seeks affordable housing projects for charrette

AIAVT seeks affordable housing projects for charrette

The American Institute of Architects, Vermont Chapter, will be hosting an Affordable Housing Charrette event on March 25 and is seeking project submissions from towns and organizations throughout the state that might benefit from an afternoon of pro-bono architectural design input. Click here for details and an application. Project applications must be received by Jan. […]

Weekly Covid Update: Vermont, Chester hit record Covid numbers again

Weekly Covid Update: Vermont, Chester hit record Covid numbers again

©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC In a sentence that seems like a broken record, and as state officials predicted heading into the holidays, Vermont’s new Covid-19 cases have soared into record territory again this past week. The state hit a record single-day total of 2,188 cases Thursday. The record busting new weekly total now stands at […]

Landscape firm loses thousands of dollars in equipment in holiday theft

Landscape firm loses thousands of dollars in equipment in holiday theft

By Cynthia Prairie ©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC It was Friday, Dec. 24, and the crew from Terrigenous Landscape Architecture  of Chester was looking forward to a holiday week off. They had been working in the back of a stone house in Baltimore, “putting in a stone wall and drainage to save one of these old […]

GMUSD board narrows focus on major infrastructure spending, bond issue

GMUSD board narrows focus on major infrastructure spending, bond issue

By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Mike Davey of Energy Efficient Investments was back before the Green Mountain Unified School District board on Monday, Dec. 21 with some new numbers for a proposed $20 million project to renovate and upgrade the district’s three schools. GMUSD operates two elementary and one high school with […]

Vermont Covid cases hit new records

Vermont Covid cases hit new records Omicron has yet to show impact on hospitalizations, deaths

©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC As state officials predicted heading into the holidays and the new year — and likely driven by the more contagious Omicron variant –Vermont’s new Covid-19 cases have soared into record territory this past week. The state hit a single-day case total of 1,352 on Thursday, Dec. 30, and a record weekly […]