Archive for 2025
Andover Select Board agenda for Feb. 24
The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday Feb. 24, 2025 at the Town Office, 953 Weston-Andover Road. Below is the board’s agenda. 1. Call Meeting to Order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act on Minutes of February 10th meeting. 4. Public Comment (Time allowance: Five minutes per visitor, […]
Springfield Hospital welcomes Anna Hinman as director of Rehabilitation Services
Springfield Hospital recently welcomed Anna Hinman, PT, DPT as director of Rehabilitation Services. She is a highly skilled physical therapist with extensive experience in outpatient and home health care. Hinman graduated from the University of New England in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science and earned her doctorate in physical therapy from Sacred […]
To the editor: Ignoring the poor, enriching the rich
I am ashamed of our president. On the one hand, he is trying to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development and reduce the help America gives to the world’s poor. On the other hand, he has proposed America lead in developing Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” for the enjoyment of […]
T&G hosts annual meeting at Flood Brook School Feb. 25
The Taconic and Green Regional School District hosts its Annual Meeting at Flood Brook School, 91 VT-11 in Londonderry, on Tuesday, Feb. 25. An informal meet-and-greet opportunity with board members and neighbors begins at 6:30 p.m.; the formal session starts at 7 p.m. The primary topic of discussion is T&G’s education budget for fiscal 2026, […]
Second annual Grace Cottage ‘Make Tracks for Health’ fundraiser March 1
Enjoy the beauty and joy of winter while helping Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital in Townshend in its mission to provide vital healthcare to the local communities. The second annual Make Tracks for Health event will be held from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, March 1 at the Nordic Center at Stratton Mountain […]
Side by Side: Scott education plans past and present
By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC In the eight years that Gov. Phil Scott has been in office, his administration has produced two reports on reforming education in Vermont. These reports that are strikingly similar in conclusions, but very different in their origins. One was said to be the result of public input […]
TRSU began preparing for Trump budget cuts, funds freezes late last year
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles detailing the impact of the Trump administration’s actions on our communities. Because of fast moving directives from Washington, expect situations to be fluid. If you would like to share your story, please email cprairie@chestertelegraph.org. By Cynthia Prairie ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC How will the […]
Gypsy Reel, Rick Redington perform Feb. 22 in Ludlow, offer tribute to Mark Huntley
Friends of Ludlow Auditorium will be offering a special musical event featuring Gypsy Reel and Rick Redington & Tuff Luv at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22 in the Heald Auditorium at Ludlow Town Hall, 37 S. Depot St. Gypsy Reel is like a Celtic rollercoaster ride complete with musical twists and turns that will […]
Aviation & Career Education Camp for young people this summer in Springfield
Hartness State Airport, 15 Airport Road in North Springfield, will be hosting the 2025 Aviation Career Education Academy from Monday, July 28 through Friday, Aug. 1. The day camp will take place from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. and will provide a valuable opportunity for area students between the ages of 12 and 16 to learn […]
High winds make for dangerous conditions; ski areas pause operations
By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC UPDATE: 7 a.m. Wednesday Feb. 19 – Green Mountain Power is reporting no outages this morning. The wind forecast for this morning arrived pretty much on schedule and with it came the power outages. By 6 a.m. Monday, Green Mountain Power’s online outage map was showing 1,180 […]
West River Farmers Market in Londonderry opens vendor application process
The West River Farmers Market, one of the oldest and most vibrant farmers markets in Vermont, now in its 32th year, is seeking farmers, artists, craftspeople and food vendors to apply for its 2025 summer season, which runs every Saturday from Memorial Day weekend to Indigenous People’s Day weekend. Vendors must grow, create or make […]
Grace Cottage awarded $1 million toward new clinic building
Grace Cottage Family Health and Hospital of Townshend has been chosen as the recipient of a $1 million grant to help with the construction of a new primary care clinic building through the Northern Border Regional Commission’s Catalyst Program. The NBRC is a federal-state partnership for economic and community development in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont […]
It’s GM ‘Grizzlies’ as students vote for new mascot
By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC The polls have closed, the votes have been counted and the result is in. Green Mountain Union High School’s new mascot is the grizzly bear. GM Principal John Broadley told The Telegraph on Sunday that the 200 plus students who voted to chose from five candidates picked the […]
Chester Select Board agenda for Feb. 19
The Chester Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 19, 2025 at Town Hall, 556 Elm Street and via Zoom. To join the meeting via Zoom go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 Below is the board’s agenda 1. Additions or Deletions to the Agenda 2. Approval of Minutes from the Select Board […]
To the editor: Public invited to address legislators’ Rural Caucus
This is not a typical legislative session because: the massive effort to improve the education system is dominating everything (no decisions have been made yet) and, the federal government’s changing funding policies are sowing uncertainty and making decision-making very difficult as we go into the budget process. That said, there is plenty of good work […]
Cavendish board talks road projects, speed limits and transfer station improvements Timko thanks board at his last meeting
By Lorien Strange © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC At Monday’s meeting of the Cavendish Select Board outgoing member George Timko thanked the board and said he hoped more people in Cavendish would get involved with local government. Timko has spent more than 20 years on the board and former board member Sandra Russo is running […]
Chester board denies driveway appeal, gets presentation on sidewalk study
By Shawn Cunningham ©2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC By a 3-1 vote last Wednesday, the Chester Select Board voted to deny an appeal by the owner of a Main Street property for a curb cut to install a new driveway. But while the vote sounds resolute, some board members spoke of how conflicted they were over […]
FOLA screens adventurous ski films Feb. 20
Friends of Ludlow Auditorium joins forces with the Catamount Trail Association to present an evening of skiing films at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20 in the Heald Auditorium in Ludlow Town Hall, 37 S. Depot St. The evening begin with the short CTA film 40 Years on the Trail produced by Climb High Productions. […]
To the editor: We don’t need a King Donald
Elon Musk and his 20-something year-old code writers are having a field day dismantling their favorite bogeyman, the Deep State, otherwise known as the Civil Service. Several million federal workers were bullied into accepting a questionable “deferred resignation” or face being summarily fired. Musketeers now have access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, which disperses […]
College News
Two local undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Worcester, Mass., were named to the university’s fall 2024 Dean’s List. The criteria for the WPI Dean’s List differ from that of most other universities as WPI does not compute a grade point average. Instead, WPI students are named to the Dean’s List based on the […]
