Author Archive for Shawn Cunningham
Chester board hones proposed regulations on ‘nuisance animals’
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The lion’s share of the Chester Select Board’s June 5 meeting was taken up with the question of how to make an “nuisance animal” ordinance that isn’t a bit of a nuisance itself. The impetus for this was the problem that a herd of goats roaming at […]
GM and Ludlow-Mount Holly districts pass budgets with higher turnout
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Residents in the two school districts that comprise the Two Rivers Supervisory Union went to the polls for the third time in as many months on Tuesday, this time passing their much-downsized budgets to run four elementary schools and one high school, with a much higher turnout. […]
Andover Select Board agenda for June 10
The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday June 10 at the Andover 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 May 28th meeting. 4. Public Comment (Time allowance: Five minutes per visitor, […]
Third time school budget votes for GM and LMH on Tuesday June 4
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Tuesday June 4, voters in the Green Mountain and Ludlow-Mount Holly school districts will go to the polls to weigh in on school budgets for a third time in as many months. Those budgets are intended to fund the operation of five schools in six towns. […]
GM school board wrestles with better use of its three school buildings
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last week’s Green Mountain Unified School District’s Restructuring Committee meeting was like experiencing a time warp, with the discussion re-litigating portions of the Act 46 merger that created the district more than seven years ago. The original charge for the committee was to come up with ideas […]
Londonderry zoning proposal sparks community pushback, a board resignation
By Shawn Cunningham and Cynthia Prairie © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The row during last week’s Londonderry Select Board special meeting over proposed zoning regulations, which caused one board member to resign, continued on Monday night as more than 100 residents crowded into the Town Office meeting room, then spilled into the hallway and outdoors. […]
Tree truck crashes in Chester; no one injured
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC A tree trimming rig belonging to a contractor working for Green Mountain Power lost its brakes this afternoon and crashed on Route 35 in Chester. According to Chester Police, the driver of a TTS Tree Service boom truck that was towing a chipper lost his brakes as […]
What’s at stake in the June 4 GM school budget vote?
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC On Tuesday, June 4 – a little less than three weeks from now – residents of Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester will have the opportunity to vote on the Green Mountain School District budget for the third time in as many months. The budget funds Cavendish Town […]
Potash neighbors tell select board of nuisance goats ARPA funds discussion and development loan approval
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last Wednesday, several residents from the area of Andover and Potash Brook roads asked the Chester Select Board to establish a nuisance ordinance in response to a neighbor’s animals – including goats, horses, pigs and vicious dogs – that have made living in the area difficult for […]
GM school board approves warning for 3rd budget vote on June 4
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last night, the Green Mountain Unified School District Board voted unanimously to approve a warning that will put a $16.5 million budget in front of the voters in Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester on Tuesday, June 4. This will be the third vote on the school budget […]
GM school board readies third budget proposal hoping to avert major penalty
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last night was a make-or-break moment for the board of the Green Mountain Unified School District as members met in Proctorsville to craft a budget that could win the approval of voters before the end of the school year on June 30 and avoid the penalties that […]
Chester Select Board agenda for May 1
The Chester Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday May 1 at Town Hall, 556 Elm Street and via Zoom. The Select Board Meeting will be followed by a meeting of the Town’s Water and Sewer Commissioners. To join the meeting go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 Below are the boards’ agendas. 1. […]
Chester board OKs community health initiative, full-time Fire Chief post
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Select Board at its April 17 meeting approved some major new initiatives in public safety, including a community health program that would expand the work of the town’s ambulance service beyond emergency response and a full-time fire chief. Ambulance Chief Mike Randzio told the board […]
GM and LMH budgets go down to defeat again
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Voters from four area towns went to the polls yesterday, Tuesday, April 23, and again defeated the 2024-25 budget for the Green Mountain Unified School District. This time the vote was 220 yes to 340 no with two blank ballots. The 120-vote margin was up from the […]
Fire danger is high across Vermont today
According to the National Weather Service and Vermont’s Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, the danger of fire is high for today, Tuesday April 23. See the Weather Service statement below and be careful out there. “Fine fuels, such as grass and leaf litter, remain very dry across the region. Low relative humidity values of […]
A scorecard for voters in the April 23 GM school budget re-vote
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Next Tuesday, April 23, voters in Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish and Chester will go to the polls to decide whether or not to approve a somewhat smaller budget for the Green Mountain Unified School District for the 2024-25 school year. The original budget was rejected in March by […]
Chester board gets water/wastewater update, approves coin drops
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Engineer Naomi Johnson of Dufresne Group updated the Chester Select Board last Wednesday on several town water and sewer projects that have been completed or are nearing completion. These include an “asset management plan” for the town’s wastewater system, an inventory of the water system to find […]
FBI, Chester Police arrest 31-year-old Chester man on drug, assault charges
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC More than two dozen local, state and federal law enforcement officers arrested a Chester man this morning, Friday, April 5, on charges that include distribution of fentanyl and cocaine, as well as aggravated assault. Britian Stocker, 31, was wanted on federal and Massachusetts state warrants. Chester Police […]
Julians admit violations, will cease hammering, other activities
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Chester’s Development Review Board was set to hear an appeal of the town’s notice of violation against Julian Materials/Allstone on Monday night when it was announced that those companies and the neighbors of its three quarries in Gassetts had agreed to a stipulation that brings a halt […]
Bring on the beat: Chester company give boost to school music programs
By Shawn Cunningham © 2024 Telegraph Publishing LLC Last Wednesday, Zacciah Blackburn and Dorothy Stone delivered a musical gift to Chester-Andover Elementary School. Blackburn and Stone, owners of Sunreed Instruments located on Old Stage Road in Chester, had offered both CAES and Green Mountain Union High School a gift of $1,000 each. CAES music teacher […]
