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Londonderry Select Board agenda for Feb. 15

Londonderry Select Board agenda for Feb. 15

The Londonderry Select Board will hold its regular meeting via Zoom at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 2021. To join the meeting online go to  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88290878819  To join via telephone: (929) 205-6099 (Meeting ID: 882 9087 8819) Below is its agenda: 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Additions or Deletions to the Agenda 3. Minutes […]

Weekly Covid Update: Shots open to 70+, school music comes back, emergency extended

Weekly Covid Update: Shots open to 70+, school music comes back, emergency extended

©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Gov. Phil Scott opened Covid-19 vaccinations to Vermonters aged 70+ with registration beginning next Tuesday and announced the resumption of music programming in schools at his Friday press conference and extended the Covid-19 state of emergency through March 15. Registration for 70+ age group will begin at 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday, […]

Weekly Covid Update: Youth sports to restart without spectators; new vaxx sites at Grace Cottage, Mount Ascutney hospitals

Weekly Covid Update: Youth sports to restart without spectators; new vaxx sites at Grace Cottage, Mount Ascutney hospitals

©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Gov. Phil Scott announced the resumption of youth sports competition between schools, including interscholastic teams and youth leagues, for basketball, hockey, indoor soccer and football, broomball and volleyball, to begin next Friday, Feb. 12 with additional safety measures including no spectators, the masking mandate expanding to referees and no more than […]

Londonderry Select Board special meeting agenda for Feb. 10

Londonderry Select Board special meeting agenda for Feb. 10

The Londonderry Select Board will hold a special meeting via Zoom at 6 p.m. on Wednesday Feb. 10. To join the meeting go to Via web: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85957057388 By telephone: (929) 205-6099 (Meeting ID: 859 5705 7388) Below is the agenda 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Additions or Deletions to the Agenda 3. Old Business […]

Karen Morris, 69, of Chester, dies

Karen Morris, 69, of Chester, dies

Long time Chester resident Karen Morris, 69, died on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital following a long illness. For the past year, she had been cared for at her home by her sister Kathy Kitowski, of New Hampshire. She was predeceased by her husband, Brian Morris, who died on Dec. 14, 2019. […]

Andover Select Board agenda for Feb. 8

Andover Select Board agenda for Feb. 8

The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. on Monday February 8, 2021. To join the meeting, https://zoom.us Personal Meeting ID 869 021 5007 Passcode 146374 Or call in: 1 929 436 2866 US (New York) Below is its agenda 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act […]

Burton Frizzell, 91, of Chester and Lemington, Vt.

Burton Frizzell, 91, of Chester and Lemington, Vt.

 NEW PORT RICHEY, FLA.  – Burton “Buster” L. Frizzell, 91, of Chester and Lemington, Vt., passed away at the Bayonet Point Medical Center in New Port Richey, Fla. on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. He was born on April 5, 1929, in Canaan, Vt., and was known by many as the man with a twinkle in […]

John Lancaster, 67, of South Londonderry

John Lancaster, 67, of South Londonderry

John C. Lancaster, 67, of South Londonderry, died suddenly at his home on Jan. 27, 2021. He was born March 4, 1953 in Glen Ridge, N.J., the son of Joan C. and Edward S. (Ned) Lancaster  Jr. He was the oldest of four siblings. His early school years were spent in Northborough, Mass., where he […]

College News

College News

Bryan Fox of Chester has earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Spencer Fowler of South Londonderry excelled during the fall 2020 semester at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., achieving a GPA of at least 3.5 to earn a spot on the Dean’s List. The following […]

Chester Select Board agenda for Feb. 3, 2021

Chester Select Board agenda for Feb. 3, 2021

The Chester Select Board will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3 via Zoom and in person at Town Hall, 556 Elm St., with proper distancing. To access the meeting via Zoom click here: https://zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 819 8884 2129 or https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129  Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from the Jan. 20, 2021 Water/Sewer […]

TRSU board agenda for Feb. 4

TRSU board agenda for Feb. 4

The board of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 both in person, at the Professional Development Room of Ludlow Elementary School, and via Zoom by clicking here https://trsu.zoom.us/j/82443480986  or calling 646-876-9923. Below is its agenda. I. CALL TO ORDER: a. Roll Call II. APPROVAL OF […]

To the editor: On 100th anniversary, remember Vermont was slow to accept women's suffrage

To the editor: On 100th anniversary, remember Vermont was slow to accept women’s suffrage

Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, marks the 100th anniversary of Vermont’s ratification of the 19thAmendment granting women the right to vote, coming almost six months following its adoption and after women had voted in November 1920. Contrary to its history of progressive change, Vermont lagged behind the nation on women’s suffrage. Legislators resisted the reform for […]

Weekly Covid Update: Rates continue to decline while hospitalizations rise

Weekly Covid Update: Rates continue to decline while hospitalizations rise State says Springfield Hospital's Moderna doses OK to use

©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vermont’s Covid-19 weekly new case total, death toll and positivity rate have continued to decline for the fourth week in a row, according to the state Department of Health. New case weekly numbers dropped below the 1,000 mark to 899 reported this week. The total number of cases now stands at […]

Moderna: Springfield's 860 doses OK to use

Moderna: Springfield’s 860 doses OK to use Covid-19 vaccines reported as 'discarded' were not

  By Shawn Cunningham and Cynthia Prairie © 2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC Vaccine manufacturer Moderna and federal officials have determined that the 860 doses of Covid-19 vaccine that were thought to be affected by a temperature change during storage are not spoiled. Although it has been widely reported that those doses were discarded, they continue […]

Chester Planning Commission agenda for Feb. 1

Chester Planning Commission agenda for Feb. 1

The Chester Planning Commission will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 1 via Zoom.  To access the meeting via Zoom: https://zoom.us/join Meeting ID: ​810 2925 6359 or  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81029256359 Below is its agenda. 1. Review minutes from the Dec. 21, 2020 and Jan. 18, 2021 meetings. 2. Citizens Comments 3. Discuss and adopt proposed rules […]

College News

College News

Select students have been named to the fall 2020 Dean’s List at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the Dean’s List that semester. The following Southern Vermont students have earned this achievement: Nora Bright […]

Opinion: State bill would require civics education for high school graduation

Opinion: State bill would require civics education for high school graduation

By Sen. Dick McCormack Windsor District It requires real effort to focus on anything but Covid-19 and the transfer of power, but life and its lesser concerns go on. A tri-partisan group of senators, including local colleagues Sen. Alison Clarkson, Sen. Mark MacDonald and all three Rutland County senators, are co-sponsoring S.17, a bill I’ve […]

Chester Select Board special meeting agenda for Jan. 25

Chester Select Board special meeting agenda for Jan. 25

The Chester Select Board will hold a special meeting at 3 p.m. on Monday Jan. 25, 2021 via Zoom. To join the meeting by Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82405568601 NOTE the link for this meeting is not the same as the usual select board link. https://zoom.us/join Meeting ID: 819 8884 2129 or  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 In person attendance is limited, so […]

Weekly Covid Update: Vaccinations to begin for Vermonters 75 and up

Weekly Covid Update: Vaccinations to begin for Vermonters 75 and up Signups begin Monday, shots on Wednesday, with Phase 2

©2021 Telegraph Publishing LLC On the morning of Monday, Jan. 25, Phase 2 of the Vermont vaccination plan will begin, allowing Vermonters age 75 and older to begin registering for inoculations. The first vaccines for this group will start on Wednesday. The website and phone number for vaccination registration will be released on Monday morning. […]

Andover Select Board agenda for Jan. 25

Andover Select Board agenda for Jan. 25

The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. on Monday Jan. 25, 2021. To join: https://zoom.us Personal Meeting ID 869 021 5007 Passcode 146374 Or call in: 1 929 436 2866 US. Below is the agenda: 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. 3. Act […]