Archive for May, 2021
Left in Andover: The wonders of the cookstove and the very hungry granddaughter
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC On a sizzling hot day last week, I was still able to enjoy a fire in the wood cookstove first thing in the morning. My husband staged the fire box for me the night before. His homemade bomb of birch bark, twigs and paper towel impregnated with used […]
Chester Chatter: Every cemetery tells a story
By Ruthie Douglas ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester has seven cemeteries. For many years, Ken Barrett was the cemetery sexton for those cemeteries, taking quite good care of them. Chester’s cemeteries are very well kept, which is not true of other towns. Years ago, Ken gave me a tour of the graveyards in his pickup […]
Henry Homeyer: The Art of Weeding
By Henry Homeyer ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC When you face a flower bed and can’t immediately tell what’s a weed and what’s a flower, you have a situation my wife, Cindy Heath, calls Code Red. It happens to the best of us at times, myself included. So what does a gardener do? My wife likes […]
Weekly Covid Update: Scott lifts curfew on restaurants, looks to 80 percent goal next week
© 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Friday, Gov. Phil Scott announced he was lifting curfews on restaurants, bars and social clubs beginning Saturday, May 29, allowing those establishments to return to their normal business hours. Local municipalities are still allowed to place their own restrictions on businesses if desired. In what had been an optimistic […]
Fighter training exercises over Vermont scheduled for June
© 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Next month people in southern Vermont will once again be hearing the thunder of the jets of the 104th Fighter Wing, flying out of Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Mass. According to a press release from the fighter wing, the jets will be flying routine training missions over […]
Chester Select Board agenda for June 2
The Chester Select Board will meet for a special meeting at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 2 for a site visit for potential community greenhouse locations. Those sites are: Canal Street Well Site and Academy Building – rear lot The regular meeting will follow at Town Hall, 556 Elm St., and via Zoom. To access […]
Patricia Fromberger, 81, of Andover
Patricia Susan (Kochiss) Fromberger passed away on the morning of Sunday, May 23, 2021, at her home in Andover. Pat was born in Bridgeport, Conn. on Feb. 4, 1940, the youngest of three sisters. She grew up in Easton, a small rural community a few miles from Bridgeport. Although her father was killed in an […]
James Tomasso, 61, of Vermont and Connecticut
James George Tomasso, 61, passed away peacefully on May 21 surrounded by his family after a brief but very courageous battle with cancer. Jim was born in New Britain, Conn., the son of Joy L. Tomasso and the late Angelo Tomasso Jr. Jim graduated from Avon Old Farms School and attended Paul Smith’s College and […]
Move to oust GM vice chair Brown fails in a tie
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Just before the end of last Thursday’s meeting in the ongoing crisis that is the Green Mountain Unified School District board of directors, member Michael Studin moved to unseat board vice chair Deb Brown for actions he called “unbecoming of someone in a position of leadership.” The […]
GM board member wants much less detail in meeting minutes, destruction of notes, recordings
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC A member of the Green Mountain Unified School District Board of Directors wants that panel to streamline the minutes of its meetings, eliminating much of the detail of its discussions, and to destroy notes and recordings of those meetings after the minutes are approved. Some of those […]
Sign panel gives Chester wayfinding a go-ahead of sorts State will work with town to clear final hurtles
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC At its first meeting in more than a year and a half, Vermont’s Travel Information Council considered Chester’s long-waiting request to erect wayfinding signs as a downtown economic development move and gave the plan a partial but enthusiastic approval. The council is administered by the Agency of […]
Chester board names new Zoning Administrator Will tour sites proposed for community greenhouse
By Shawn Cunningham © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC For the second time in six months, the Chester Select Board appointed a new zoning administrator for the town. The appointment took place at its meeting on Wednesday, May 19. The board took the unanimous recommendation of the Planning Commission and appointed Preston Bristow of Woodstock to […]
Music to fill summer air in Proctorsville, Weston
Free concerts throughout summer in Proctorsville Now that outdoor gatherings are permitted, the Town of Cavendish will present the annual summer music series on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. beginning July 7 on the Svec Memorial Green in Proctorsville. The town continues to encourage wearing masks and physical distancing. The Green is large and the bands […]
Essay: What Memorial Day means to me
Editor’s note: The following essay by Miles Glidden was chosen as the best Memorial Day essay byhis peers from among all the Memorial Day essays that his class wrote. In non-Covid times, he would have read the essay during Memorial Day ceremonies held by the Chester American Legion on the Green in Chester. By Miles […]
Weston Playhouse awarded $15,000 NEA grant
Weston Playhouse Theatre Company has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support its 2021 New Works Program. “As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment for the Arts is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as […]
College News
Mikayla G. Lathrop from South Londonderry earned a bachelor of science degree as a member of St. Lawrence University’s Class of 2021 in April. Lathrop graduated from the Canton, N.Y., school Cum Laude with a her BS in environmental studies-mathematics. Lathrop attended Stratton Mountain School. Mackenzie Owen Walton of Chester received a bachelor of science […]
Green Mountain Gardeners are all (green) thumbs for spring cleaning
The Green Mountain Gardeners held its annual Clean-Up Day on Wednesday, May 12, with members raking and digging into the leaves to uncover perennial flowers and bedding plants ready to blossom and thrive. This year, the group gathered at the Farrar-Masur House in Weston and, in Londonderry, the Post Office, the Rescue Squad and the […]
Sen. Clarkson: What we learned this session High speed internet is essential; federal dollars will benefit all Vermonters
By Sen. Alison Clarkson The Vermont legislature adjourned Friday afternoon, May 21. We all agree that it was an historic session. It was the first legislative session to be conducted completely remotely during an international pandemic. And, despite our productivity, we all long to be back in the Statehouse doing the people’s business in person. […]
Community Cares holds fund-raiser; Asian American Pacific Islander Month celebrated; local foster care families sought
Community Cares Network hosts fund-raiser Community Cares Network of Chester/Andover Inc. is taking orders for a take-out fundraising meal. Orders must be placed no later than Friday, May 28. Pick-up will be Friday, June 4, from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Andover Town Hall. Please call 802-875-6341 to place your order. Cost is by donation. The […]
Left in Andover: A recipe for meatless living
By Susan Leader ©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC When I was growing up, my family kept barrels of whole wheat berries and soybeans for ourselves and kibble for our dog in the “honey room,” a sort of shed attached to the house at Popplewood Farm. The wheat and beans were sourced from a local feed store. […]
