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Special Grafton Select Board meeting for Nov. 9, 2016

Special Grafton Select Board meeting for Nov. 9, 2016

The Grafton Select Board has called a Special meeting for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9 at Town Hall, at 117 Main St. in Grafton. The meeting will be held to count the non-resident taxpayer survey/poll for the Industrial Wind Project.

Grafton Select Board agenda for Monday, Nov. 7, 2016

Grafton Select Board agenda for Monday, Nov. 7, 2016

The Grafton Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 7 at Grafton Elementary School, 58 School St. Below is its agenda. 1. Public Comment 2. Adopt Agenda 3. Minutes: Oct. 17, 2016 4. Warrants: Accounts Payable and Payroll 5. Highway Report 6. Other Business 7. Capital Budget a. Presentation of Capital Budget […]

Election Day fundraisers in Chester

Election Day fundraisers in Chester

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing, LLC The Chester Andover Family Center and the Green Mountain Middle School will be hoping for a big turnout at Town Hall on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, to help with their fundraisers. The Family Center will hold its annual bake sale from 9 a.m. to noon with funds raised supporting […]

Londonderry, Chester get tricked out for Halloween

Londonderry, Chester get tricked out for Halloween

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Has anyone else noticed that there have been a lot of ghosts and goblins — not to mention superheroes and pirates — roaming the streets lately? And that they all seem to have just one thing on their minds – candy? Chester and Londonderry celebrated Halloween this week each with […]

TRSU Act 46 study panel reboots, takes comments on merger proposal

TRSU Act 46 study panel reboots, takes comments on merger proposal

By Shawn Cunningham © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC After nearly a year of meetings focusing on planning, finance, property and governance, the Act 46 study committee for Two Rivers Supervisory Union has – in effect – gone back to the drawing board and started over. Last night in Ludlow, the committee outlined what it was […]

To the editor: Clarkson, McCormack, Nitka a winning Senate team

To the editor: Clarkson, McCormack, Nitka a winning Senate team

This year, as a political science major in college, I saw a lot of my classmates abandon the field as they began to look for jobs. They did not want to be a part of a broken system – a system that amplifies partisan bickering, represents the voices of companies instead of the American people, […]

To the editor: Vermonters lucky to have pro-environment candidates

To the editor: Vermonters lucky to have pro-environment candidates

Like me, you might be feeling dismayed by the current presidential election cycle. Yet, while tabloid-style politics grabs the national media attention, back at home we are lucky to have local candidates for the Vermont legislature who we can be proud of. Recently, Vermont Conservation Voters released its endorsement of local candidates: Reps. David Deen, […]

Archer Mayor kicks off 2016 Vermont Voices

Archer Mayor kicks off 2016 Vermont Voices

© 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Each November for15 years, Phoenix Books Misty Valley has brought Vermont writers to Chester to share their work. And as he has since the beginning of Vermont Voices, mystery writer Archer Mayor returns at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6, with his latest Joe Gunther tale, Presumption of Guilt. A […]