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Workshop introduces businesses to QuickBooks

Workshop introduces businesses to QuickBooks

The Vermont Small Business Development Center of Brattleboro is sponsoring a workshop, Introduction to QuickBooks, at Marlboro Graduate Center, Room 2E, in Brattleboro from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, May 10. The workshop will focus on the basics of using QuickBooks to help owners gain control of their business finances.  Choosing the right QuickBooks […]

With high fire danger, towns ban open burns

With high fire danger, towns ban open burns

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Without significant rain and with gusting winds, area towns including Chester, Andover, Grafton, Weston and Rockingham have banned open burning. The burn ban will be in place until the area gets significant rain.  Rain is in the forecast for Monday. The National Weather Service has announced that the danger of open […]

St. Luke's donates $250 to Whiting Youth Library; Weston resident wins Family Center rug; EdgarMay kicks off free community walks; Cavendish Calendar contest begins

St. Luke’s donates $250 to Whiting Youth Library; Weston resident wins Family Center rug; EdgarMay kicks off free community walks; Cavendish Calendar contest begins

The Whiting Library  has received a $250 donation from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church that came from proceeds from the church’s 2016 LEGO Contest. This is the fifth year that the LEGO Contest has been able to give a donation to help purchase books for the Whiting Library’s children’s section. For almost a month after the […]

Vermont State Police Log  for April: Feb. 2- March 31, 2016

Vermont State Police Log for April: Feb. 2- March 31, 2016

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Editor’s Note: The Vermont State Police incident report is a sampling of incidents directly from Vermont State Police. We do not identify individual victims of crimes nor those who have been arrested. Tuesday, Feb. 2, Londonderry — A caretaker reported that someone had broken into a barn in the Landgrove […]

Exchange program seeks host families

Exchange program seeks host families

The Program of Academic Exchange – PAX – is searching for families in local school areas to open their homes to exchange students. The program works with more than 70 countries and works with a local community coordinator for support and supervision for both host family and student during their entire stay. Students are 15 […]

From Buddhism to biography: Take a chance on non-fiction

From Buddhism to biography: Take a chance on non-fiction

By John Hoover ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Most often this column recommends works of fiction. This month, however, the folks at Misty Valley Books are suggesting some non-fiction works that we found to be informative, intriguing, educational and/or just plain good reads. From Buddhism to history and biography the books we’ve chosen for April are […]

Springfield Med offers free health ed classes, support groups

Springfield Med offers free health ed classes, support groups

Springfield Medical System’s Community Health Team has announced its free education offerings for 2016’s spring and summer months. There is no charge for any of the programs but space is limited and registration is required. Contact the Community Health Team for more information or to register, 802-886-8946 or email cht@springfieldmed.org. Classes meet at Springfield Health Center, […]

Boys Scouts to hold intro meeting; Chester preschool open house; TRSU awarded program grants; story telling institute this summer; and kids get a lesson in recycling

Boys Scouts to hold intro meeting; Chester preschool open house; TRSU awarded program grants; story telling institute this summer; and kids get a lesson in recycling

Boy Scouts intro meeting to be held at CAES All boys in first through fifth grade, their brothers, sisters and parents are invited to an informational meeting on Cub Scouts at Chester-Andover Elementary School at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 9. Attendees will have a chance to create a rocket and shoot it off as well […]

Champlain Oil donates, dismantles house to make way for larger Jiffy Mart

Champlain Oil donates, dismantles house to make way for larger Jiffy Mart

By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC After unsuccessfully offering to give the Burbank house at the corner of Main and Pleasant streets to anyone who would move it from the site, Champlain Oil has donated the structure to a not-for-profit — EcoBuilding Bargains — and contracted with another company to dismantle it. EcoBuilding […]

VSAC urges parents to fill out FAFSA for college aid

VSAC urges parents to fill out FAFSA for college aid

Vermont Student Assistance Corp., the state advocate for Vermont students in their pursuit of higher education, is urging parents and student to file their FAFSA forms now. The FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid, is the crucial first step to receiving financial aid, including federal Pell grants, VSAC’s Vermont State Grant, financial aid […]

Grafton board pushes Planning Commission on Town Plan

Grafton board pushes Planning Commission on Town Plan

By Cynthia Prairie ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC With a sharply critical response directed to the Grafton Planning Commission, Grafton Select Board member Ron Pilette on Monday called on the commission to make specific changes to the Town Plan that was rejected in late December. In a short, 1-1/4-page draft response, which will be sent on […]

All articles pass at quiet Weston Town Meeting

All articles pass at quiet Weston Town Meeting

By Christopher Biddle ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC All but one of the 27 articles in Weston’s 2016 Town Meeting passed by voice vote Tuesday morning at the Weston Playhouse. Article 17, which asked voters to approve a resolution to see if they were interesting in expanding the number of parking spaces in front of the […]

Violation may complicate gravel pit land buy in Londonderry

Violation may complicate gravel pit land buy in Londonderry

By Christopher Biddle © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC With just two weeks before Londonderry voters will be asked if the town should spend $150,000 to buy a gravel pit south of the town’s transfer station, Londonderry Select Board members heard on Monday, Feb. 15 that an unresolved environmental violation could complicate the purchase. Board member […]

West Rutland boys get past Green Mountain 33-28

West Rutland boys get past Green Mountain 33-28

By Anileah Buswell © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Green Mountain’s Chieftains played hard at home against West Rutland last Thursday night. Both teams showed great passing and defensive skills, but the Golden Horde was able to pull the final score in its direction with a few great baskets late in the game. The Chieftains opened […]

Girls State program seeking high school applicants

Girls State program seeking high school applicants

©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The American Legion Auxiliary Green Mountain Girls State program, which engages young women in a weeklong exercise in citizenship and self-government, is seeking applicants for the summer 2016 session. High school girls who have completed their junior year are eligible to apply. ALA Girls State participants spend an intensive week of […]

Scout learns ropes, 'Blind Date with a Book,' new large print books at Rock Library; seamstress work featured at artisans coop

Scout learns ropes, ‘Blind Date with a Book,’ new large print books at Rock Library; seamstress work featured at artisans coop

Boy Scout volunteers at Rockingham Library Liam Mallan, a Boy Scout from Springfield’s Troop 252, got an inside look at how libraries work when he volunteered at the Rockingham Free Public Library in Bellows Falls. Working with Youth Services librarian Sam Maskell, Liam contributed to the Collection Development project. Books that had old and outdated […]

Andover Select Board agenda for Monday, Jan. 25, 2016

Andover Select Board agenda for Monday, Jan. 25, 2016

The Andover Select Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25 at Andover Town Offices, 953 Weston-Andover Road. Below is its agenda. 1. Call to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes: 01/11/2016 Selectboard Meeting. 4. Review and Act on Financial Orders. 5. Highways / Garage: Grizzly – Continued from last meeting; […]

School choice applications available at GMUHS; River Valley Tech offering Engineering program

School choice applications available at GMUHS; River Valley Tech offering Engineering program

Green Mountain Union High School and area high schools are now accepting applications for school choice.  Any high school student interested in attending a public school out of their home district for the 2016-17 school year must submit a Vermont School Choice Application to their home district principal by Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. Once the […]

Foodbank Mobile Pantry to drop off in Springfield

Foodbank Mobile Pantry to drop off in Springfield

On the second Friday of every month, the Vermont Foodbank “Veggie VanGo” Mobile Food Pantry will be at the Springfield Hospital Meeting House, on the hill opposite the hospital on Ridgewood Road, to distribute food for those who need it. Its next visit is from 10 to 11 a.m. tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 8. The Foodbank […]

Police tell a real life Grinch story in Pittsford

Police tell a real life Grinch story in Pittsford

© 2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont State Police press releases are often dry affairs filled with acronyms and legal speak, but a burglary last night in Pittsford got the following (completely appropriate) treatment from Trooper Kaitlyn Armstrong. DATE/TIME: December 24, 2015 LOCATION: Arch Street, Pittsford VIOLATION: Burglary ACCUSED: UNKNOWN (Grinch) VICTIM: Apx. 30 elderly residents […]