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News Analysis: Legislature shuffles the districts in spite of local wishes Local towns need to leverage new representation
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC While the text of House Bill 589 said that lawmakers would be seeking public — and municipal — input on their reapportionment plan to determine what State House districts will look like for the next 10 years, for officials in most area towns, they apparently were not […]
VSP trooper resigns, charged with perjury, animal cruelty
© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC A detective trooper assigned to the Westminster State Police Barracks has resigned and faces charges of perjury, animal cruelty and violating an abuse prevention order. According to the Vermont State Police, Zachary Gauthier, 31, of Weathersfield, was cited on those charges this morning. In an affidavit of probable cause, police […]
Special Select Board meeting on the Williams Dam in Londonderry
The Londonderry Select Board will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday April 20, 2022 at Londonderry Town Hall, 139 Middletown Road in South Londonderry. The special select board meeting will feature a presentation by the town’s project engineer, and a question and answer session. This meeting is being held to provide information […]
UPDATED: Chester Select Board agenda for April 20
The Chester Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 20, 2022 at Town Hall, 556 Elm Street and via zoom. To join the meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 Below it the board’s agenda. New item(s) in boldface. 1. Approve Minutes from the April 6, 2022 Select Board Meeting 2. Citizen Comments/Answers […]
Weather Service warns of ‘fire weather’
© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC The National Weather Service is warning that high winds and low humidity today will increase the danger of fire and is advising against open burning. The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation Fire Danger Forecast map shows “high” fire danger for all of the state and “very high” in […]
Driver in Rt. 103N crash pleads not guilty to two charges
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC One month to the day after the crash that left Chester bookstore owner Vicki Thornton severely injured, Travis Stella, 27, of Wilton, Conn., was arraigned on charges of DUI-1 and grossly negligent operation with serious injury resulting in Windsor County Superior Court in White River Junction. Represented […]
Chester panel mulls zoning change for Baba A Louis buyer
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC With adjustments to the Village Green District proposal finished at its Monday April 4 meeting, the Chester Planning Commission turned its attention to a request from Robert “Sugar Bob” Hausslein for a change of zoning to accommodate food manufacturing in the long shuttered Baba A Louis bakery […]
Detour & delay season is right around the corner Here's a short guide to avoiding the worst of it
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Every year as the weather warms, we begin to look around to see where the public works construction season will give us delays and detours. Here are some of the projects you may run into this summer. Andover The major project in Andover will be a relatively […]
Police investigate Springfield shooting
© 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Police are investigating a shooting that took place on Valley Street in Springfield last night. According to the Vermont State Police, the VSP and Springfield Police Department are investigating a report of shots that were fired at a residence on Valley Street at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5. […]
Andover Select Board agenda for April 11
The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday April 11, 2022 at the Andover Town Hall, 953 Weston-Andover Rd. and via Zoom. To join the meeting go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8690215007 The passcode is 146374. Below is the board’s agenda 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. […]
Chester Select Board agenda for April 6
The Chester Select Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, at Town Hall, 556 Elm St. and on Zoom. To join the meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81988842129 . Below is its agenda. 1. Approve Minutes from the March 16, 2022 Selectboard Meeting 2. Citizen Comments/Answers from Previous Meeting 3. Old Business 4. Sign […]
As Cavendish votes, Gross celebrates a hard won defeat
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC With contested races for town four offices approximately ten percent of Cavendish voters either showed up or cast absentee ballots in the delayed Town Meeting election on Tuesday. One hundred eleven votes were cast with 15 of those being absentee ballots received by noon. George Timko garnered […]
Andover Select Board replaces another member, talks short-term rentals again
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Just as things seemed about to settle down on the Andover Select Board, on Monday night another resignation put a fourth new member on the panel, leaving chairman Chris Plumb as the only one with substantial experience in town government. As the meeting got under way at […]
Derry board proposes removing Williams Dam Issue heads to voters on April 30
At a Special Meeting held on Thursday, March 24, the Select Board for Londonderry voted unanimously to recommend to the community that the town remove the Williams Dam, then placed the issue on the Town Meeting warning an article seeking to raise $40,000 for engineering costs for the removal process. The Town Meeting for Londonderry […]
Weekly Covid Update: State narrows testing recommendation as focus shifts from Covid Clinics move from state-run to health providers, pharmacies
Editor’s Note: The Chester Telegraph began publishing its Weekly Covid Update every Friday beginning in April 2020. Since then, we have written more than 93 update articles (and hundreds more on Covid itself) to let you know where our communities have stood when it comes to the pandemic’s spread, its vaccination rates and testing. We’ve […]
Andover Select Board agenda for March 28, 2022
The Andover Select Board will hold its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Monday March 28, 2022 at the Andover Town Hall, 953 Weston Andover Road and via Zoom. To join the meeting go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8690215007 with passcode 146374. Below is the board’s agenda 1. Call Select Board meeting to order. 2. Act on Agenda. […]
Chester board re-appoints Hudkins, sets up local cannabis commission
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Judging by the people attending last Wednesday’s Chester Select Board meeting, the main event appeared to be the three-year Planning Commission appointment that had just one candidate, incumbent Peter Hudkins. With commission members Hugh Quinn, Barre Pinske and chair Cathy Hasbrouck in the audience, the board had […]
Chester ski racer to compete in National Alpine Championships
©2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Ava Anderson, 14, of Chester, has qualified to compete in the U16 National Alpine Championships to be held in Sugarloaf, Maine, from Saturday, April 2 through Wednesday, April 6.Ava, an 8th grader at Stratton Mountain School at Stratton Mountain Resort, has long been a dedicated ski racer and currently races within […]
Abe Gross: Vote for Steve, not for me!
By Shawn Cunningham © 2022 Telegraph Publishing LLC Green Mountain school board member Abe Gross wants Cavendish residents to vote him out of office when the town holds its town meeting balloting on Tuesday, March 29. In May 2021, Gross took one of two open seats representing Cavendish, saying that he had more than enough […]
Vermont ranked No. 1 in elections administration
MONTPELIER Secretary of State Jim Condos announced that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Election Data & Science Lab has ranked Vermont No. 1 overall nationally in elections administration for the 2020 election in its Election Performance Index. This marks the second No. 1 ranking for Vermont following the last two presidential elections. The EPI is […]
