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Champlain Oil files application for new Chester Jiffy Mart with chain restaurants

Champlain Oil files application for new Chester Jiffy Mart with chain restaurants

© 2015 Telegraph Publishing, LLC Robert Record, B. Cairns Properties, LLC and Champlain Oil  Co. filed applications with the Chester Zoning administrator for a conditional use permit and a flood hazard area review on Tuesday, April 14 for a new Jiffy Mart in Chester. The application says that developers hope to build a 4,980-square-foot Jiffy […]

Women dominate in 2015 Vermont Small Business awards

Women dominate in 2015 Vermont Small Business awards

MONTPELIER The president and CEO of Vermont Precision Tools has been named 2015 Vermont Small Business Person of the Year.  The announcement was made on Monday. Monica Greene is being recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration for VPT’s employment growth, financial success, company expansion and community involvement. “VPT is flattered to be recognized as […]

Okemo Resort among 30 businesses honored as Best Places to Work in Vermont

Okemo Resort among 30 businesses honored as Best Places to Work in Vermont

LUDLOW Okemo Mountain Resort has been ranked fourth in the large-business category of Best Places to Work in Vermont for 2015, climbing three spots since earning honors for the first time last year. It is the first ski resort to ever make the prestigious list. The Vermont Business Magazine and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce […]

Telegraph announces partnership with NewsBank

Telegraph announces partnership with NewsBank

© 2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC The Chester Telegraph announced today that it has entered into an agreement with NewsBank through which The Telegraph’s contents will become part of NewsBank’s Access World News, a web-based searchable archive that provides access to more than 9,000 newspapers and information sources from around the globe. Founded in 1972, with headquarters […]

Legislators address Current Use, other issues at Crown Point BR breakfast

Legislators address Current Use, other issues at Crown Point BR breakfast

The Crown Point Board of Realtors’ legislative breakfast, held on Monday, March 16, at the Fullerton Inn in Chester, drew a crowd of 35 attendees. The breakfast, sponsored by Victoria Blodgett of Prime Lending, offered an open discussion on topics that have a direct impact on property owners and the real estate market in general. […]

Crown Point Board of Realtors to host legislative breakfast in Chester

Crown Point Board of Realtors to host legislative breakfast in Chester

The Crown Point Board of Realtors is holding a Legislative Breakfast from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 16th at the Fullerton Inn on the Green in Chester. Interested members of the community are invited to attend. The Crown Point Board of Realtors membership originates from Grafton, Chester, Ludlow, Cavendish, Springfield, Weathersfield and Mt Holly. […]

Retailers recognized for not selling alcohol to minors

Retailers recognized for not selling alcohol to minors

Windsor Area Prevention Partners recently recognized eight businesses in Windsor County that passed the Vermont Department of Liquor Control Alcohol Compliance Checks in not selling alcohol to minors. Black River Area Community Coalition, a member of WCPP, awarded the licensees in Ludlow and Cavendish a recognition certificate. Recognized for their efforts are: Ludlow Cumberland Farms […]

Two March workshops address financing alternatives for small businesses

White River Junction meeting Thursday, March 5 Two upcoming workshops will address small business financing under various topics and forms. The first one will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 5, in White River Junction. Representatives from the private and government sector will explain the range of financing available to small […]

Free SBA course targets service members, vets on business startup fundamentals

MONTPELIER Camp Johnson is hosting a two-day course for service members and veterans who want to learn about the fundamentals of starting a small business from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27 and 28 at the camp’s Regional Training Institute, 789 Vermont National Guard Road in Colchester. Boots to Business is […]

USDA grants invest $125 million in Vermont in 2014

The United States Department of Agriculture announced last week that Vermont communities, families and businesses benefited from $125 million in USDA Rural Development grants, loans and loan guarantees in Federal Fiscal Year 2014. “These funds helped thousands of Vermonters find affordable homes, find good paying jobs, and access vital community services,” said USDA Rural Development […]

Vermont Law School offers environmental advocacy, hacktivist programs

SOUTH ROYALTON Two new Vermont Law School summer programs, one in environmental advocacy and one in legal technology, are open to undergraduate students, providing them with a unique opportunity to learn from nationally recognized faculty at the school’s Environmental Law Center and Center for Legal Innovation. The programs, New Frontiers in Environmental Law and Policy […]

Community architect addresses villages' futures at Rotary talk

Community architect addresses villages’ futures at Rotary talk

By Shawn Cunningham ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC An architect who specializes in helping people think about the futures of their town centers attracted a crowd of 45  to the Fullerton Inn in Chester last Thursday night. While most were from Chester, residents of Ludlow, Londonderry, Springfield and Grafton also came to hear the Chester Rotary Club-sponsored […]

Springfield Medical Care Systems receives leadership grant

Springfield Medical Care Systems was recently awarded $133,958 in Affordable Care Act funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  In late January, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced the grant funding to recognize health center quality achievements and to invest in ongoing quality improvement activities. “These funds reward and support those health centers […]

Chester Planning Commission continues to hone sign regs

Chester Planning Commission continues to hone sign regs

By Shawn Cunningham ©2015-Telegraph Publishing LLC In the absence of Tom Bock, Naomi Johnson took the chair of the Chester Planning Commission for its Monday, Jan. 26 meeting as the commission began reviewing the “definitions” section of the Unified Development Bylaws. While the past several meetings were attended by a substantial number of business people […]

Springfield Medical seeks Advisory Group participants

All are invited to participate in Springfield Medical Care Systems’ Community Advisory Group, which meets quarterly, in collaboration with its Community Health Team and health team partner agencies including local community health and human services organizations and stakeholders. The 2015 quarterly meetings of the SMCS Advisory Group will be held at Springfield Hospital Library on […]

Northern Stage hires assistant director/director of education

Northern Stage hires assistant director/director of education

Lillian King, Northern Stage’s new assistant artistic director and director of education, will make her Northern Stage directorial debut with the upcoming production of Blithe Spirit. A recent graduate of Boston University’s School of Theatre, King was the assistant director on Rocky the Musical and Peter and the Starcatcher, both on Broadway. King grew up […]

Okemo Resort named one of top workplaces in Vermont

LUDLOW Okemo Mountain Resort was recently named one of the 2015 Best Places to Work in Vermont. The annual list of the Best Places to Work in Vermont was created by Vermont Business Magazine, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, the Vermont Department of Economic Development, the Vermont Department of Labor, the Society for Human Resource […]

Gov. Shumlin to speak at Springfield Rotary-Chamber meeting

Gov. Shumlin to speak at Springfield Rotary-Chamber meeting

V ermont Gov. Peter Shumlin will be the guest speaker at the Springfield Rotary Club meeting at noon on Monday, Feb. 2. This annual visit to Springfield by the governor of Vermont, coordinated by the Springfield Rotary and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, offers the business community, community leaders and the public an opportunity to […]

Chester Planning Commission begins drafting sign law, comments still sought

Chester Planning Commission begins drafting sign law, comments still sought

By Shawn Cunningham © 2015  Telegraph Publishing LLC Having taken several hours of testimony from business owners and residents at two earlier meetings, the Chester Planning Commission met on Monday, Jan. 12 to discuss and organize the work of revising the town’s sign ordinance. Commission chair Tom Bock referred to the complexity of the work […]

SAPA-TV announces video on demand; seeks donations to further broadcasting

SAPA-TV announces video on demand; seeks donations to further broadcasting

By Shawn Cunningham ©2015 Telegraph Publishing LLC If living on a Class 3 road out in the woods has always meant missing the thrill of watching a Chester, Springfield or Weathersfield select board meeting in your pajamas, you won’t be deprived any longer. As Springfield Area Public Access Television begins its video on demand service, […]