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Chester board OKs rural zoning changes; talks 2025 budget, water meter upgrades

By Shawn Cunningham © 2025 Telegraph Publishing LLC An amendment to Chester’s rural zoning regulations that’s been under consideration since July, with several hearings where it was criticized by residents and Select Board members alike, was finally adopted after  one of its most controversial proposals was dropped. The 4 to 1 vote approving the at […]

One select board meeting, 3 contentious issues and a glitch

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board had its hands full at its Wednesday, Dec. 18 meeting as it again took on controversial changes to rural zoning but put off a vote, handed down a determination in a long-standing Class 4 roads dispute and learned that sometimes delaying a decision […]

GM board discusses budgets, bonds and mascots

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Green Mountain Unified School District Board continued last Thursday night discussing the 2025/26 budget with Superintendent Layne Millington and Business Manager Cheryl Hammond. The meeting was held in the Green Mountain High School Library. Millington outlined a number of actions that may be taken by the […]

Flurry of customers brings success to Chester’s first ‘Starry, Starry Night’ event

©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC It was a frigid Saturday evening — one that made holding a camera near impossible. But it was brightened by lights adorning trees, the gazebo and many of the shops on the Green in Chester. And that bone-freezing cold quickly dissipated from the warm and welcoming atmosphere inside the shops, which […]

Future of Ed panel wrestles over report to legislature

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC We can only improve the lives of kids and taxpayers if we are all rowing in the same direction,” said Emilie Kornheiser, who chairs the Commission on the Future of Education’s finance subcommittee, at its Dec. 9 meeting. The topic was what form the upcoming report to […]

Chester building owner seeks driveway permit to stop neighbor ‘harassment’

By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC It’s unusual for a permit to put in a driveway to find its way to a select board for a decision, but in the case of 116 Main St. in Chester the situation itself is unusual. Also known as the Henry Office Building, the 1880s structure at […]

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    Abbigale Williams of Andover was named to the Dean’s List at Elmira College, in Elmira, N.Y., for the fall 2024 term. Full-time undergraduate students registered for at least 12 computable credit hours and earning a term grade point average of 3.6 or higher at the end of Term I or Term II are placed on […]

  • Christmas comes early to Kurn Hattin, thanks to Springfield Rotary

    Christmas comes early to Kurn Hattin, thanks to Springfield Rotary

    Springfield Rotary Club brought Christmas to the 39 kids at Kurn Hattin Home for Children in Westminster on Thursday, Dec. 12. For more than two decades, Rotary has taken up a collection and bought individual gifts for Kurn Hattin children. Often, these are the only Christmas presents that they receive. After distribution of the gifts, […]

  • SAPA TV hosts 24 hours of kitschy Christmas movies, shorts and classic cartoons

    SAPA TV hosts 24 hours of kitschy Christmas movies, shorts and classic cartoons

    Once again, SAPA TV, the Springfield area’s public access TV station, will run 24 hours of Christmas movies and short subjects from 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve to 7 p.m. on Christmas Day. Viewers in Springfield, Weathersfield and Chester, as well as in Charlestown, N.H., can spend the day with 1964’s Santa Claus Conquers the […]

  • Local knitters create winter caps for Westminster Head Start kids

    Local knitters create winter caps for Westminster Head Start kids

    ©2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Carley Marston of Bellows Falls, pictured above standing on the porch of Six Loose Ladies in Chester, holds just a few of the 60 knitted hats and mittens for children at the Early Education Services Westminster Head Start Program. Since October, the community of knitters who frequent both Six Loose Ladies […]

  • Help 'Brighten Downtown' Springfield for the holidays

    Help ‘Brighten Downtown’ Springfield for the holidays

    Each year, the Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce orchestrates the illumination of downtown Springfield. Lampposts, Santa’s house and the community holiday tree are all infused with a festive glow that fosters a sense of warmth and unity throughout the winter months. This cherished tradition transforms the townscape into a welcoming spectacle, as well as provides […]

  • ESBR holding end-of-year fundraising campaign

    ESBR holding end-of-year fundraising campaign

    Although Giving Tuesday is traditionally the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, the Expeditionary School at Black River announces that, for the third consecutive year, several generous donors have come forward to offer a Matching Funding Challenge totaling $10,400. As such, the school has extended its fundraising campaign through the end of 2024 to maximize the possibility of […]

  • Kate Lorenz Memorial Fund donates to four Vermont organizations

    Kate Lorenz Memorial Fund donates to four Vermont organizations

    The Kate Lorenz Memorial Community Fund announces nine awards/gifts for 2024. This year as in the past, the fund has donated $5,000 in gifts to organizations that represent Kate’s interests and passions. Four organizations are in Vermont; five are in Massachusetts. The Kate Lorenz Memorial Community Fund, supports the causes and ideas Lorenz held dear: […]

  • Derry Library holds Solstice Celebration Dec. 21

    Derry Library holds Solstice Celebration Dec. 21

    South Londonderry Free Library, 15 Old School St., invites families to join art teacher Casey Junker Bailey at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21 for a Solstice Celebration. In the always-popular gift-making workshop for kids, children will use a variety of materials to create keepsake presents and ornaments for friends and family. Adults can join […]

  • Lake Wise program coming to Lake Rescue

    Lake Wise program coming to Lake Rescue

    Lake Wise is program of the Agency of Natural Resources that provides free, non-regulatory, technical assistance to lakeshore homeowners and awards lake-friendly shoreland properties, including state parks, town beaches, private homes and businesses. While there are many benefits to living on a lake, the star attraction is a clean, healthy lake; there are so many […]

  • Derry Rescue Squad to offer EMR Course

    Derry Rescue Squad to offer EMR Course

    Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad is offering an Emergency Medical Responder course this winter, beginning on Monday, Jan. 6 and running through March 17. Classes will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 9 p.m., as well as from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on one Saturday per month, at the LVRS building, 6068 VT […]

  • Changes coming for using Derry Transfer Station

    Changes coming for using Derry Transfer Station

    Changes are coming for users of the Transfer Station in Londonderry. Beginning on Sunday, Dec. 15, the Londonderry Hardware will stop selling punch cards for use at the Transfer Station. Those cards and the annual stickers are available at the town offices of Landgrove, Londonderry, Peru, Weston and Windham. The price for stickers valid from […]

  • College News

    College News

    Noah DiStefano, a member of the Green Mountain Union High School Class of 2016, graduated from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, with a master’s degree in science (archeology) with commendation in November. St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y., welcomed Caroline D. Tarmy of South Londonderry as a member of the Class of 2028. Tarmy […]

  • Springfield Community Players urgently seeks funds for new roof

    Springfield Community Players urgently seeks funds for new roof

    The Springfield Community Players, Vermont’s oldest continuously operating amateur theater group, is in imminent need of funding to replace the roof on its South Street studio. Although the nonprofit group is hopeful that the 35-year-old roof will withstand this winter, the threat of leakage looms large, putting their vast collection of costumes and props in […]

  • Seasonal art workshops for adults and kids at Weston library Dec. 12 and 14

    Seasonal art workshops for adults and kids at Weston library Dec. 12 and 14

    Art teacher Casey Junker Bailey brings two workshops to Wilder Memorial Library, 24 Lawrence Hill Road in Weston, to add creativity to the holiday season. Adults are invited to make Old World ornaments at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12. Junker Bailey will share her collection of ornaments gathered during travels in Europe, then demonstrate […]

  • GM Marching Band celebrates new banner, thanks to One Credit Union

    GM Marching Band celebrates new banner, thanks to One Credit Union

    Pictured from left, with the new banner are Green Mountain student Anna Bennett, GM Principal John Broadley, Two Rivers Supervisory Union Superintendent Layne Millington, music teacher Michael Hilkert, Selina Meisenhelder and Caitlyn Stone-Humphrey of One Credit Union and GM student Owen Levy. Photo by GM art teacher Christa Valente The Green Mountain Marching Band has […]

  • Ludlow church raises funds for disaster kits

    Ludlow church raises funds for disaster kits

    Christmas-time SINGO held at the United Church of Ludlow raised $425 that will be used to purchase disaster kits for the community. The church’s Fellowship Hall was transformed into a festive sing-a-long, led by popular SINGO host Jane McGarry with live holiday and rock music provided by Ludlow musician Sammy Blanchette. SINGO is a musical […]

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