Author Archive for Bruce Frauman
Derry begins search for new board member, road foreman
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Londonderry Select Board, at a special meeting on Wednesday, March 15 accepted the resignations of Select Board member Will Reed and Road Foreman Duane Hart, both of whom had tendered their resignations following Town Meeting the week before. The board also made Paul Gordon its chair and […]
Board member Reed, road chief Hart quit Derry government
By Bruce Frauman ©2017-Telegraph Publishing LLC In the wake of the Londonderry Town Meeting last week, two key government officials have resigned: Select Board member Will Reed, who was starting the second year of a two-year term, and Road Foreman Duane Hart. Reed offered this written statement to The Chester Telegraph: “There is a conflict […]
Mora, Ameden, Cavanaugh win Derry board seats; police contract renewed, salt shed gets voter approval
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Attracting more votes than any other candidate, George Mora was elected to the Londonderry Select Board during Town Meeting on Tuesday March 7. In a face-off with Chad Stoddard for the two-year position vacated by Wayne Blanchard, Mora tallied 125 votes to Stoddard’s 65. Former board chair James […]
Weston board questions GNAT-TV, clinic budget requests as Town Meeting nears
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Select Board is asking GNAT-TV and the Mountain Valley Medical Clinic to come before Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 7 to justify their funding requests. On Monday, Feb. 27, board member Charles Goodwin asked GNAT videographer Bruce Frauman, who is also the reporter of this article, […]
Derry Candidates Night: Three vie for open Select Board seats
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC With the death of Londonderry Select Board chair Steve Prouty and members Wayne Blanchard and Bill Wylie deciding not to run for re-election, three Select Board seats will change hands on Town Meeting day. Emmett Dunbar and Cathy Aragi each came to the town’s Candidates Night on […]
Full Derry board meeting opens with tribute to Prouty
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC With his voice breaking, Londonderry Select Board chair Paul Gordon opened the meeting of Feb. 13 saying, “It is with great sadness that I step in as vice chairman. The sudden passing of our chairman and friend, Steve Prouty, leaves us without our dedicated leader.” Prouty, 66, who […]
Residents hear Act 46 merger proposal at Flood Brook School
By Bruce Frauman ©2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Around 50 people braved the single digit temperatures and blowing snow on Thursday, Feb. 9 to attend an Act 46 School Merger Forum at Flood Brook School in Londonderry. The hour-long presentation by study committee member Debra Lyneis outlined the proposed merger of schools for nine towns into […]
Steve Prouty, champion of Londonderry, Select Board chair, dies at 66
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC Steve Prouty, chair of the Londonderry Select Board, died at his home on Monday morning, Feb. 6, 2017. He was 66. Prouty was elected to the board in 2011 and rose to chair last May after Jim Ameden resigned for family reasons. Prouty’s father, Clyde, served 36 […]
Derry board OKs article on shed spending capped at $200,000
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC As expected, the Londonderry Select Board on Tuesday Jan. 17, agreed to ask voters at Town Meeting to fund a new wooden salt and sand shed for a total “not to exceed $200,000.” While the wooden structure itself is expected to cost around $59,000, the bulk of the […]
Wooden salt shed to be put on Derry Town Meeting ballot;
Transfer Station fee hike proposed
CORRECTION: While the Londonderry Select Board did discuss on Jan. 12 the amount that it would ask the voters to approve, the board did not vote on that dollar amount that night. It only decided to ask voters to approve the wood-frame shed. However, at the Tuesday, Jan. 17 meeting, the board did decide to […]
Weston voters to decide on fire truck financing; zoning admin hopefuls await new job description
By Bruce Frauman © 2017 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Select Board will be asking voters to decide whether to approve financing for a new fire tanker at Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 7. The Weston Volunteer Fire Department made the case for replacing the 1987 tanker, which can only pump about 40 percent of […]
Independent school students, parents protest proposed VT rule change
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC MANCHESTER A crowd of more than 800 in the Burr and Burton Academy auditorium rose in a standing ovation as a Long Trail School student chastised the State Board of Education saying, “We are the future!” The board was meeting at BBA on Monday, Dec. 12 to […]
Weston Fire Department truck fails to meet pumping standards
By Bruce Frauman ©2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Weston Select Board on Tuesday, Dec. 13 learned that two one of the Weston Volunteer Fire Department’s trucks do not meet current standards. The department’s 18-year-old pumper is pumping 1,200 gallons per minute instead of the required 1,500 gallons per minute, and the its 30-year-old tanker-pumper, which […]
Derry policing board urges town to renew VSP contract
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Londonderry’s Policing Committee came out in force on Monday to recommend to the Select Board that it place on the 2017 Town Meeting warning a proposal to renew the Vermont State Police contract for one year of 25 hours a week of patrol and community policing for […]
Regional police force stalls out for ‘Mountain Towns’
CORRECTIONS: Jeanette Haight, Andover Town Clerk, has informed us that Andover actually pays $7,000 annually for five hours of policing a month. And also Al Peters was misidentified. He is the Andover Town Constable. By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC After two meetings this fall, members of area select boards and Londonderry’s […]
Genser property buyout hung up by Fairpoint pole
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Bette Genser, owner of the former Barn Outlet store at Routes 11 and 100 in Londonderry, came to the Dec. 5 Londonderry Select Board meeting looking for an update on the buyout of her property after flooding from Tropical Storm Irene. She left with promises to “do […]
Material in town right-of-way worries Weston board
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The three members attending the Weston Select Board meeting of Nov. 21 spent much of their time discussing how to approach a Longley Loop resident about his possessions that encroach on the town’s right-of-way. Jim Linville, who was acting as chair in Denis Benson’s absence, said the […]
Londonderry moves ahead with salt shed planning
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC Moving ahead on plans for the construction of a salt and sand shed on the Prouty property on Route 100 between Londonderry and South Londonderry, Londonderry Select Board member Bill Wylie showed the board an engineering drawing for a wood frame shed at its Nov. 21 meeting. […]
Northshire merger panel unanimous in vote for larger district
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Northshire Merger Study Committee voted unanimously on Monday, Nov. 14 to recommend to the State Board of Education that a new school supervisory district be created. To be called the Taconic and Green District, it would be a part of the current Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union. The […]
Northshire Act 46 panel to vote on merger plan Monday
By Bruce Frauman © 2016 Telegraph Publishing LLC The changing landscape in education governance in Vermont surfaced during the Londonderry Select Board meeting of Monday, Nov. 7. Northshire Merger Committee member Dick Dale told the board the committee will reach the end of its process at its Monday. Nov. 14 meeting. In the meantime, Board […]
